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Usage reports

Usage of a resources

To see overall usage information of resources, open Reporting → Resources → Usage.

It is possible to filter the results by organization, project and offering, and to export them. The Resources tab carries a number of sibling views alongside Usage — among them Usage by user, Usage trends, Quotas and Usage monitoring, which flags missing or anomalous usage reports.

Usage reports

The usage of a single resource is on the resource's own page.

Private clouds

  1. Open your project and select the Resources tab.
  2. Open the private cloud (VPC) resource.
  3. The card at the top shows how much of each limit (CPU cores, RAM, storage) is in use, and the Quotas tab shows the usage of every OpenStack quota, grouped into compute (instances, vCPUs, RAM), network (floating IPs, networks, ports, security groups and their rules, subnets) and storage (snapshots, volumes, storage).

Quotas of a private cloud

HPC

  1. Open your project and select the Resources tab.
  2. Open the allocation (resource).
  3. The card at the top shows each component with its usage and limit, its billing type and unit.

  4. Select the Usage tab. There is one chart per component; switch between them with the tabs above the chart (CPU hours and Storage in the example).

    Usage history chart of an HPC allocation

  5. For an older resource, buttons above the chart choose the period: 6 months, 12 months for resources older than a year, or From creation for the whole life of the resource.

  6. To see the numbers, click the table icon next to Export all. Total usages lists the usage per billing period, User usages the usage per user. Click the chart icon to go back.

    Usage history as a table

  7. Export all downloads the usage as PNG, PDF, CSV or Excel.

Including terminated resources

Usage charts normally count only resources that still exist, so terminating one removes its usage from the totals and from a project's own history. An administrator can enable the Include terminated resources feature flag, which adds a switch of the same name to the organization dashboard. Turning it on:

  • counts the usage that terminated resources reported in the current month, and
  • keeps a removed project's usage visible on the organization dashboard.

Terminated usage is reported separately: the API returns it as usage_terminated and limit_usage_terminated alongside usage and limit_usage, and a component's limit never includes it. While the feature flag is off, the usage endpoints ignore the include_terminated parameter.