Billing Widget

The Billing widget allows you to visualize cloud billing data directly on your LogicMonitor dashboard.  

When you create a new Billing widget, you can specify the scope of your data, group and filter results, and customize charts to create visualizations of your billing data.

Drill Down Dimensions for Configured Billing Widgets

The Drill Down Dimensions feature allows you to customize the granularity of your Billing widget views by focusing on more specific dimensions within the filters you set for your widget. By adding drill down dimensions, you can select specific areas in your widget view to see billing data focused on those dimensions within the filters applied above the dimension you select.

For example, you can configure a Donut Chart of billing data with drill down dimensions for Region, Service Category, and Environment. If you select the “East US” region in the top level of the widget chart, a menu displays “Drill down to Service Cagetory with Region Name = East US” and “Drill Across to Service Category.“

If you select the “drill down” option, the chart refreshes to display all of the service categories within the region previously selected. If you select the “drill across” option, the chart refreshes to display all service categories across all regions that display in the original chart view. You can continue to select chart segments on each view to drill down or across to Environment.

You can continue to drill down or across as many dimensions as you add when configuring your widget. When selecting an option from the drill down menu, dimensions display in the order in which you set them when configuring the widget. To navigate to any previous dimension, select the dimension from the hierarchy list above the widget chart.

Note: If your widget displays Total cost values, this value displays the total only for the currently selected dimensions. To see the full total cost of all dimensions in a widget, toggle “Group remaining (if any) as “All others” on the Manage menu.

Requirements for Configuring a Billing Widget

To configure the Billing widget you need the following:

• Access to the Cost Optimization feature
• Configure Billing visualizations on the Cost Optimization – Billing page

For more information, see Cost Optimization – Billing.

Configuring a Billing Widget

1. In LogicMonitor, navigate to Dashboards, select a current Dashboard, or create a new one. For more information, see Dashboard Creation. Add a Billing widget. For more information, see Widget Creation.

2. From Insert Token, select a resource group. This automatically formats and populates the Name field with your selected resource group.

Add a description if necessary. For more information, see Configuring Standard Widget Settings.

3. From the Visualization Type dropdown, choose how you want the widget to display billing data by using one of the following types:

• To see a total dollar amount of all active Billing, filtered using Filter By and separated by Drill down dimensions,select “Area Graph.”
• To see a bar chart filtered using Filter By and separated by Drill down dimensions select “Bar Chart.”
• To see a bar chart filtered using Filter By and separated by Drill down dimensions, with items stacked vertically, select “Bar Chart – Stacked.”
  To see a column chart filtered using Filter By and separated by Drill down dimensions select “Column Chart.”
• To see a column chart filtered using Filter By and separated by Drill down dimensions, with items stacked vertically, select “Column Chart – Stacked.” 
• To see a round chart filtered using Filter By and separated by Drill down dimensions select “Donut Chart.”
• Grouped Table: A table displaying all billing data by region. Select the arrow beside each result to see additional details.

4. In the Filter by field, do the following to filter billing data:

      a. Select  Add.

      b. Select or search for a filter dimension from the menu.

      c. Select or search for a property within the selected filter dimension.

5. In the Drill down dimensions field, do the following to further aggregate billing data:

      a. Select  Add.

      b. Select or search for a drill down dimension from the menu.

6. In Default Time Range, select a time period to display billing data.

7. (Only applies to Area Graph and Column Chart visualization types.) Choose a time frame in Aggregation granularity by which to display billing data: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Yearly.

8. In Results to display, enter a value to customize how many individual dimensions appear on the widget chart, from 1-100. The value set here always applies to the drill down dimensions you configure.

9. (Optional) To group and total any costs that are left over (if any) once “Results to display” has been applied, toggle Group remaining (if any) as “All Others”. This leftover total appears as “All others” in the widget.

10. (Optional) To show any applied filters and their selected dimensions, toggle Display filter selections on widget .

Compatible Dashboard-level Filters

Billing widgets are only affected by dashboard dynamic filters that correspond to existing Billing filter properties. If incompatible filters are applied on the Dashboards page, any active billing widgets do not return results. For more information on dashboard filters, see Modern Dashboards.

Only the following filter aliases and resource properties are supported by Billing widgets:

• Account (alias), system.norm.account (resource property)
• Application (alias), system.norm.application (resource property)
• Business Unit (alias), system.norm.business_unit (resource property)
• Environment (alias), system.norm.environment (resource property)
• Owner (alias), system.norm.owner (resource property)
• Provider (alias), system.device.provider (resource property)
• Region (alias), system.norm.region (resource property)
• Resource Type (alias), predef.externalresourcetype (resource property)
• Resource Type Category (alias), auto.resourcetypecategory (resource property)
• Tenant (alias), system.tenant.indentifier (resource property)
• Version (alias), system.norm.version (resource property)