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BI Dashboards are a collection of charts and data tables with filters that you can use to access the data you are interested in. BI Dashboards serve as a platform for data modeling and analytics using a combination of available business metrics and operational data. You can use this data to make data-driven, informed business decisions.

Harness provides pre-loaded out of the box (pre-defined) and custom (user-defined) dashboards to visualize cloud cost data across clusters and cloud accounts.

Before You Begin​

After setting up cost visibility for the cloud provider and the data is available in the Perspective, you can view the dashboard. The data in the Dashboard is updated within 24 hours.

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Dashboards only display data based on stamped cost categories. These are cost categories that have been processed and stored during the data ingestion phase, rather than categories calculated at query time. This ensures consistent reporting and improved performance across all dashboard visualizations.

Any changes made to cost categories will only appear in dashboards after the next scheduled batch processing job. Note that these updates may be partial, meaning not all data will be immediately updated with the new category definitions. Complete propagation requires a backfill support ticket.

Creating Custom Dashboards​

Harness BI Dashboards are available across all Harness modules as a platform-wide capability. This guide describes Dashboards available by Harness for Cloud Costs. To create and customize your own dashboards, refer to the following comprehensive resources:

How to Create Custom Dashboards and Add Tiles for CCM​

BI Dashboards by Harness​

To access the dashboards from the CCM module, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Harness application, click Cloud Costs > BI Dashboards or select Dashboards directly.
  2. Click on By Harness to view the pre-defined dashboards available. The dashboards with "Cloud Costs" tags are pre-defined CCM dashboards.
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The data scan limit is 350 GB per query. Users can avoid hitting this limit by applying necessary filters to reduce the result-set as per their requirements.

See Also​

Once you have set up cost visibility for your Kubernetes clusters, AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud providers, you can create your own Dashboards. Refer to the following topics to create your own Dashboard and chart data.

FAQs​

Details

How can we identify unused portions of Reserved Instances (RI) in Azure billing data? By filtering on ChargeType = UnusedReservation and PricingModel = Reservation, then summing the Quantity and Cost columns, you can calculate the unused reservation portion and its cost.

What is the Billing Export Fields Expansion in Unified Explore?

We've expanded our billing data capabilities across all three cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Azure by exposing all standard billing export fields directly in Unified Explore.

These fields allow for deeper visibility, granular filtering, and improved analysis of cloud spend across providers.

Managing cloud costs effectively requires access to detailed and accurate data. By exposing native billing export fields in Unified Explore, you can:

  • Filter and group data using familiar cloud-native terms
  • Perform cost attribution with greater precision
  • Simplify audits, budgeting, and forecasting

What's Included​

AWS​

All standard fields from AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) are now available.

Example fields: lineItem/UsageAccountId, lineItem/UsageType, product/instanceType, lineItem/UnblendedCost, and more.

AWS Data Dictionary →

GCP​

Support for both Standard and Detailed billing export schemas.

Fields from cost_type, project.id, service.description, and more are available.

GCP Standard Schema →

GCP Detailed Schema →

Azure​

Standard billing dataset fields such as resourceGroup, meterCategory, costInBillingCurrency, etc. are now exposed.

Azure Schema Reference →

Unified FOCUS Schema Mapping​

Unified Explore now supports billing export fields aligned with the FOCUS v1.1 Specification. This brings consistency across cloud billing data, enabling standardized cost analysis and easier comparison across providers.

What is FOCUS?​

FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) is a vendor-neutral schema that defines a standard format for cloud billing data. It provides a consistent data structure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, simplifying multi-cloud cost management.

Read more about FOCUS.

How to Use These Fields in Unified Explore​

  1. Navigate to BI Dashboards → +Dashboard
  2. Click on Add Widget and choose Unified
  3. Use all the listed fields in filters, group-bys, or as columns in your reports