Economics dashboard
The Economics Dashboard reports what a workspace or an organization spent in a chosen month, broken down by project, so you can see which projects are running over budget and reallocate before the next cycle. It is available in both admin portals.
Select the month you want from the Month dropdown at the top right. The dashboard reports on one month at a time and does not support a range, so if you need a trend across several months you should use the CSV exports described in billing and reports.
This is the most common source of confusion on this dashboard. Its budget columns consider active monthly recurring project budgets and nothing else, which means one-time budgets, quarterly and annual budgets, workspace and organization budgets, and member budgets are all excluded.
So if you have set budgets and the budget columns show NA, the budgets are most likely the wrong type rather than missing. Setting a monthly recurring project budget is what makes a project appear. See create a budget.
What each widget shows
Charges
The Charges widget totals the month's charges for the workspace or organization and breaks them into five lines beneath the total.
The widget reports charges that were incurred rather than how they were settled, so deposits, applied credits and applied deposits are all out of scope here. To reconcile what was actually paid, use billing and reports and the deposits pages instead.
Adjustments and reversals land in Other, so a large credit can turn that figure negative and pull Total below the sum of the lines above it. This is correct behavior rather than a display fault.
Budget
The Budget widget shows the total budget available across every monthly recurring project budget in the workspace for the selected month, set against what has been consumed so far.
It appears on workspace dashboards only. The organization dashboard has no Budget widget, because these budgets aggregate per workspace rather than across the organization as a whole.
Projects
The Projects widget has a table on the left and a chart on the right, and both cover the same set of projects. Only projects with a recurring budget appear in either.
The table carries one row per project:
The chart beside it is a Pareto chart of the same data, with total charges in blue, remaining budget in grey and any overage in red. Hovering a bar shows the underlying amounts. Red is the thing to look for first, because it marks projects that have already spent past their cap.
If more than one monthly recurring budget targets the same project, both Budget Allocated and Budget Remaining report the smallest of them, because that is the budget which will actually stop work. The totals in the bar follow the same rule.
This is worth knowing if a figure looks lower than the budget you set, since you are seeing the binding constraint rather than an error.
If your workspace has no projects defined, the widget fills with demo data and shows an overlay explaining how to create one. The figures in that state are illustrative and are not drawn from your account.
Software
The Software widget charts the month's software charges with one bar per application. It reports the same data as the Utilization Dashboard.
Compute
The Compute widget charts the month's compute charges with one bar per coretype, and is also mirrored on the Utilization Dashboard.
How current the data is
The source data behind this dashboard refreshes on the same schedule as the Billing CSV. The dashboard itself fetches in real time, so every load shows the latest source data available, but that source is not instantaneous. A job that finished a few minutes ago may not be reflected yet.
Related
- Utilization Dashboard — capacity rather than cost
- Create a budget — setting the monthly recurring project budgets this reports against
- Billing & reports — CSV exports, month ranges, and reconciliation
- Commitment plans — savings applied to these charges