Overview and dashboards
Costfluent has two kinds of dashboard page: the fixed Overview every workspace opens on, and custom dashboards you build from saved cost reports.
Before you start
- A dashboard shows saved cost reports, so save at least one first; see Save and manage reports.
- Creating and changing dashboards needs the Owner or Editor team role in a workspace your team can edit. Every team role can view them. See Access model.
The Overview page
Overview is the first entry in the sidebar. It shows, for the current workspace:
- Total Cost (30d) against the previous 30 days, and Top Service;
- Connected Providers, with how many are still syncing;
- Cost Trend and Top Services by Cost, each linking to cost reports;
- Active Alerts and Budget Progress;
- the Get started checklist until you dismiss it.
With no connection yet, the page asks you to connect a cloud provider instead.
Create a dashboard
- Open Dashboards under Reporting and select New Dashboard.
- Give it a title and create it.
- Select Add widget, choose the Cost report it should show under Select a saved report, give the widget a Title, and select Add widget.
Repeat step 3 for each report. Every widget shows its report's result over the report's own range, filters, grouping and money settings, and Open report takes you to the report itself.
Manage dashboards
From the dashboard list, the actions menu offers Duplicate Dashboard, Set as Default and Delete Dashboard. The default dashboard carries a Default badge. On a dashboard, Settings shows whether it is the default and when it was created, and the title can be edited.
How it behaves
- A widget follows its report. Edit the report and the widget shows the change.
- If the report behind a widget is deleted, the widget says "The cost report this widget shows was deleted."
- A report with no cost in its window shows "No cost in this report's window." rather than a zero chart.