Common Bill Ingestion Default Format
To upload bills via Common Bill Ingestion (CBI), the bills must first be structured in the CBI Default CSV format. The following table defines the CSV format and indicates what fields map to which Flexera One dimensions:
| CSV Column | Dimension | Required? | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| CloudVendorAccountID | Cloud Vendor Account | No | A unique ID for an account (may be used in Flexera One to assign costs to Billing Centers). |
| CloudVendorAccountName | Cloud Vendor Account Name | No | A human-readable name for the account. |
| Category | Category | No | The category this usage record belongs in (for example, Compute, Storage, or Network). Set to whatever categories make sense. For a full list of pubic cloud example categories, see Cloud Cost Optimization-Generated Cost Dimension: Category. |
| InstanceType | Instance Type | No | An identifier for common hardware configurations for VMs running a customer workload. For example, m4.xlarge (AWS), D2 v3 (Azure), or n1-standard-4 (Google Cloud Platform). |
| LineItemType | Line Item Type | No | Indicates the type of information the line item is for, such as Usage, Tax, Fee, or Credit. |
| Region | Region | No | The physical region where a resource was consumed. |
| ResourceGroup | Resource Group | No | A unique identifier which can group resources together (if applicable). |
| ResourceType | Resource Type | No | A loosely-defined concept; depends on the application, but generally indicates the type of resource consumed within a service. For AWS, it is product/productFamily column in the HCUR bill. For Azure, it is a combination of MeterCategory and MeterSubCategory fields. For Google Cloud Platform, it is the sku.description field of the BigQuery billing dataset. |
| ResourceID | Resource ID | No | The ID of a specific cloud resource. For AWS, it might be a bucket name or instance ID. Equivalent for other clouds. |
| Service | Service | No | The name of the high-level service consumed. For example, AmazonS3 (AWS), Microsoft.Compute (Azure), or Compute Engine (Google Cloud Platform). |
| UsageType | Usage Type | No | A loosely-defined concept; depends on the cloud, but generally indicates information about the kind of usage incurred. For AWS, it is lineItem/usageType (for example, DiscountedUsage). For Azure, it is MeterName (for example, Standard Transactions). |
| Tags | - | No | Can be used for defining custom dimensions. For example, consider the following: "{""environment"": ""Test"", ""department"": ""Sales"", ""cpu-count"": ""24""}" |
| UsageAmount | Usage Amount | Yes | The amount of usage generated in this record in the units specified in UsageUnit (set to 0 if not needed). |
| UsageUnit | Usage Unit | Yes | The units that the Usage Amount metric is reported in. |
| Cost | Cost | Yes | The total cost generated in this record in the currency specified by currency. |
| CurrencyCode | - | No | The three-letter identifier of the currency for cost (for example, USD, CAD, GBP, EUR). |
| UsageStartTime | - | Yes | A UTC time in the RFC3339 format time (for example, 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z) representing when the usage started. If a cost record spans a period longer than a day, you will need to break it down into multiple records. |
| InvoiceYearMonth | - | Yes | The month this usage was billed/invoiced, for example, 202003. |
| InvoiceID | Invoice ID | No | The identifier for the invoice that this cost/usage was billed under, if any. Helpful for reconciliation of billing data with an invoice. |
The first step toward structuring your data in the CBI Default CSV format is to determine the mapping of native bill fields to the CBI Default CSV fields. When determining your mapping from native fields to CBI Default CSV fields, it may be helpful to refer to the Bill-based dimension documentation for similar mappings from existing public clouds.
For more information about bill-based data dimensions in Cloud Cost Optimization reporting, see Cloud Provider Bill-Based Cost Dimensions.