Views help decentralize cost management in your engineering organization by providing targeted cost visibility to individual teams.

Each View includes the following:

• A Principal Dimension to group costs by
• At least one Filter to filter costs by
• A Slack and/or email Connection (notification channel)

Once a View has been defined, CloudZero automatically monitors costs and anomalies corresponding to the View's Principal Dimension, filtered by the View's Filters. CloudZero then sends notifications to the defined Connections.

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View Notification Limitations

View notifications are sent to a single email address and/or a single Slack channel. If you specify an email, we suggest you use an email alias (such as [email protected]) to manage the recipient group.

Global Views

By default, every organization has a Global View that is mapped to the entirety of your cloud spend.

The Global View's Principal Dimension determines how CloudZero displays your data in other parts of the platform, such as weekly and monthly trend notifications and the CloudZero Dashboard.

You can edit the Global View's Principal Dimension to be your most relevant dimension, such as Service, Product, Customer, and so on. However, because the Global View includes all cloud costs, you cannot assign Filters to it.

You can also edit the Global View's Connections to change where organization-wide notifications and anomalies are delivered.

Accessing Views

Organizers can access their organization's Views by navigating to Settings > Views.

Select a View to display its details:

• Name
• Group By (Principal Dimension)
• Filters
• Connections

Creating Views

You can create additional Views to deliver cost notifications for a subset of your cost to the teams responsible for them.

To create a new View:

1. Navigate to Settings > Views and select Create View at the top right of the page.

   

2. Enter a View Name.

3. Select a dimension to filter on from the Select filter drop-down menu. For example, you could choose to filter costs by a custom Engineering Team dimension.

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   Dimension Filter Limitations

   Views do not support filtering by Resource or Resource Summary.

4. Select one or more elements to add to your filter from the Select elements to add to your filter drop-down menu. For example, if you selected the Engineering Team dimension, you could select the Team Alpha element to show only costs associated with the engineering team Alpha.

5. Optional: Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add any number of dimensions and elements to further refine the View.

6. Select a dimension to group costs by from the Select principal dimension drop-down menu. The principal dimension determines how CloudZero displays data in the Explorer when the View is selected.

   

7. Toggle the View Anomalies setting to enable or disable anomaly detection for this View (enabled by default).

8. If you enabled anomaly detection, set the threshold to either Automatic or Manual:

   • Automatic: CloudZero automatically sets the threshold for identifying anomalies based on this View's spend:

     30 Day Spend	Threshold
     Less than or equal to $100.00	$5.00
     Between $100.00 and $1,000.00	$10.00
     Between $1,000.00 and $10,000.00	$25.00
     Between $10,000.00 and $50,000.00	$75.00
     Between $50,000.00 and $250,000.00	$100.00
     Between $250,000.00 and $1,000,000.00	$150.00
     Between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00	$250.00
     Greater than $5,000,000.00	$500.00

   • Manual: You define the threshold for identifying anomalies based on this View's spend. If you select Manual, enter a percentage of the average daily spend over the last 30 days. For example, 50 would trigger an anomaly if total daily spend for the View increases by 50% (such as increasing from $1,000 to $1,500).

9. In the Notification Channel section, select at least one notification channel:

   • Slack Channel ID: Enter the ID of the Slack channel that CloudZero should send notifications to. You must connect CloudZero to Slack first. For details, see Enabling Slack Integration. You can only specify one Slack channel.
   • Email Address: Enter the email address that CloudZero should send notifications to. You can only specify one email address.

10. Select Save.

    

CloudZero starts watching the specified set of features and sends cost updates and anomalies to the selected Slack channel and/or email address.

Editing Views

To modify a View's name, filters, or notification channels:

1. Navigate to Settings > Views and select the ... overflow menu on the View you want to edit.
2. Select Edit.
3. Change the View's settings as needed.
4. Select Save.

Editing the Global View

CloudZero allows you to edit the Global View as follows:

• Change the principal dimension that all costs are grouped by
• Enable or disable View anomalies
• Change the anomaly threshold, if enabled
• Configure notification channels, including whether to send email to all Organizers in addition to the specified email address

Note that you cannot assign filters to the Global View.

Deleting Views

To delete a View:

1. Navigate to Settings > Views and select the ... overflow menu on the View you want to delete.
2. Select Delete.

CloudZero immediately deletes the View. No confirmation is required.

Creating Groups from Views

You can create a user group from a View. The group's data access matches the dimensional filter of the view. For instructions, see the User Groups documentation.

Exploring Views

You can see the cost and trends of a particular view within the Explorer.