I want to check the usage of cloud watch and how much it costs me per day/month
but I don't mean the basic output of cost explorer but detailed output of all the "components" i got there and how much I pay for each one
I can see in cost explorer that cloud watch costs me each month X$ but I want to see what this X consists of, like 0.5$ for metric Z, 5$ for group log Y , etc.
Help please =)
AWS Console does give you bill by usage type. You can correlate usage type to logs, metrics, etc. The steps to see the bill for usage type are:
Log in to your AWS console.
Go to Billing by searching or navigating from services.
Click on Bills on the left navigation pane.
Select the month from the drop down.
Expand CloudWatch from the Bill details by service
You should see list of $ by Usage type:
The same can be achieved from AWS Cost Explorer too by grouping by Usage Type/ Usage Type Group.
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I am trying to figure out how to simply view all of our custom metrics in CloudWatch.
AWS Console is far from helpful, or at least it's not well signposted. I want to try and relate our CloudWatch bill to actual metrics we have to try and determine where I can make some cuts.
For Example:
Our Bill shows 1,600 Metrics charged at $0.30 a piece per month, but I see over 17,000 custom namespaces in the metrics list within the CloudWatch console.
Does anyone know how I can best find this information, or have a nice handy CLI command to view all custom metrics for a region?
I can see the custom namespaces section in cloud watch, but these don't really marry up to the billing page as such. By about a 10 fold.
Thank you.
UPDATE:
I think I may have identified why there is a discrepancy between the billing and the list of metrics:
We have namespace builds, each creating metrics and being destroyed sometimes within hours.
These metrics which were created linger for 15 days according to the AWS FAQ on CloudWatch Metrics.
The overall monthly metrics seemingly is a figure of what it is due to the concurrency of metrics over the month.
However, this still doesn't make the billing breakdown any easier to understand when you're trying to highlight possible outliers in costs.
I am looking to configure a weekly billing report in AWS. It should contain the basic information like for last 7 days, $x is charged for the account. If is shows the services also, it will be good, but main focus is on the charged amount. The weekly billed amount should be sent over mail or SMS to inform users about the charges. Eg: $10 has been charged to your AWS acc id xyz in last week.
Is there any inbuilt AWS service which can be used or we need to write a custom script?
For now I have created a daily budget, using which I have set budget report to be sent every week. But that is not sufficient. Let me know if there is more sophisticated way present.
Thanks
You could check out the AWS Cost Explorer and build your own, custom report, that might look like this:
Go to your AWS Account -> Billing -> Cost Explorer -> Launch Cost Explorer.
NOTE: If you're running it for the first time, you need to enable it and wait approx. 24 hours for the initial data.
As of now, there's no out-of-the-box solution from AWS that sends the report as an email, but anyone interested might want to explore this repository - AWS Cost Explorer Report.
I'd like to know if possible to discover which resource is behind this cost in my Cost Explorer, grouping by usage type I can see it is Data Processing bytes, but I don't know which resource would be consuming this amount of data.
Have some any idea how to discover it on CloudWatch?
This is almost certainly because something is writing more data to CloudWatch than previous months.
As stated this AWS Support page about unexpected CloudWatch logs bill increases:
Sudden increases in CloudWatch Logs bills are often caused by an
increase in ingested or storage data in a particular log group. Check
data usage using CloudWatch Logs Metrics and review your Amazon Web
Services (AWS) bill to identify the log group responsible for bill
increases.
Your screenshot identifies the large usage type as APS2-DataProcessing-Bytes. I believe that the APS2 part is telling you it's about the ap-southeast-2 region, so start by looking in that region when following the instructions below.
Here's a brief summary of the steps you need to take to find out which log groups are ingesting the most data:
How to check how much data you're ingesting
The IncomingBytes metric shows you how much data is being ingested in your CloudWatch log groups in near-real time. This metric can help you to determine:
Which log group is the highest contributor towards your bill
Whether there's been a spike in the incoming data to your log groups or a gradual increase due to new applications
How much data was pushed in a particular period
To query a small set of log groups:
Open the Amazon CloudWatch console.
In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.
For each of your log groups, select the IncomingBytes metric, and then choose the Graphed metrics tab.
For Statistic, choose Sum.
For Period, choose 30 Days.
Choose the Graph options tab and choose Number.
At the top right of the graph, choose custom, and then choose Absolute. Select a start and end date that corresponds with the last 30 days.
For more details, and for instructions on how to query hundreds of log groups, read the full AWS support article linked above.
Apart from the steps which Gabe mentioned what helped me identify the resource which was creating large number of logs was by:
heading over to Cloudwatch
selecting the region which showed in Cost explorer
Selecting Log Groups
From settings under Log Groups, Enabling column Stored bytes to be visible
This showed me which service was causing a lot of logs to be written to Cloudwatch.
I'm just starting out using Apache Beam on Google Cloud Dataflow. I have a project set up with a billing account. The only things I plan on using this project for are:
1. dataflow - for all data processing
2. pubsub - for exporting stackdriver logs to be consumed by Datadog
Right now, as I write this, I am not currently running any dataflow jobs.
Looking at the past month, I see ~$15 in dataflow costs and ~$18 in Stackdriver Monitor API costs. It looks as though Stackdriver Monitor API is close to a fixed $1.46/day.
I'm curious how to mitigate this. I do not believe I want or need Stackdriver Monitoring. Is it mandatory? Further, while I feel I have nothing running, I see this over the past hour:
So I suppose the questions are these:
1. what are these calls?
2. is it possible to disable Stackdriver Monitoring for dataflow or otherwise mitigate the cost?
Per Yuri's suggestion, I found the culprit, and this is how (thanks to Google Support for walking me through this):
In GCP Cloud Console, navigate to 'APIs & Services' -> Library
Search for 'Strackdriver Monitoring Api' and click
Click 'Manage' on the next screen
Click 'Metrics' from the left-hand side menu
In the 'Select Graphs' dropdown, select "Traffic by Credential" and click 'OK'
This showed me a graph making it clear just about all of my requests were coming from a credential named datadog-metrics-collection, a service account I'd set up previously to collect GCP metrics and emit to Datadog.
Considering the answer posted and question, If we think we do not need Stackdriver monitoring, we can disable stackdriver monitoring API using bellow steps:
From the Cloud Console,go to APIs & Services.
Select Stackdriver Monitoring API.
Click Disable API.
In addition you can view Stackdriver usage by billing account and also can estimate cost using Stackdriver pricing calculator [a] [b].
View Stackdriver usage by billing account:
From anywhere in the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu and select Billing.
If you have more than one billing account, select Go to linked billing account to
view the current project's billing account. To locate a different billing account,
select Manage billing accounts and choose the account for which you'd like to get
usage reports.
Select Reports.
4.Select Group By > SKU. This menu might be hidden; you can access it by clicking Show
Filters.
From the SKUs drop-down list, make the following selections:
Log Volume (Stackdriver Logging usage)
Spans Ingested (Stackdriver Trace usage)
Metric Volume and Monitoring API Requests (Stackdriver Monitoring usage)
Your usage data, filtered by the SKUs you selected, will appear.
You can also select just one or some of these SKUs if you don't want to group your usage data.
Note: If your usage of any of these SKUs is 0, they don't appear in the Group By > SKU pull-down menu. For example, who use only the Cloud console might never generate API requests, so Monitoring API Requests doesn't appear in the list.
Use the Stackdriver pricing calculator [b]:
Add your current or projected Monitoring usage data to the Metrics section and click Add to estimate.
Add your current or projected Logging usage data to the Logs section and click Add to estimate.
Add your current Trace usage data to the Trace spans section and click Add to estimate.
Once you have input your usage data, click Estimate.
Estimates of your future Stackdriver bills appear. You can also Email Estimate or Save Estimate.
[a] https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/estimating-bills#billing-acct-usage
[b] https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#tab=google-stackdriver
I need to calculate AWS Bandwidth usage for an year , from the account activity i cannot see Data transfer option to get the statistics , How can it get it done ?
Click on your account name in the top right of the AWS console. Choose Billing & Cost Management, Reports, AWS Usage Reports and you can download metrics for almost anything.
You probably want to choose:
Service: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Usage Type: DataTransfer-Out-Bytes
You can then download detailed stats in XML or CSV for any specified time period.
Go to the Billing & Cost Management: