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View your savings

After enabling Cloud Commitment Management for your organization and selecting your reservation and savings plan strategy, you can monitor your savings in the dashboard.

The dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your cost optimizations:

  1. Go to the Commitment Management page (Cloud > Commitment Management).
  2. Select Dashboard > Microsoft Azure.

In the dashboard, you can:

  • See an overview of data from connected Azure accounts in your organization.
  • Filter the entire dashboard on billing account, time, region, and service.
  • View your current monthly commitment. This is the amortized commitment for reserved instance and savings plan coverage for this month.
  • View your current monthly waste. This is how much was wasted by unused reserved instances.
  • See your savings:

    • Savings over time shows the monthly savings by type (reservations and savings plans). You can filter on the source (CCM, Non-CCM, and all).

      Reserved instance volume discounts are included in savings over time because they also reduce the cost of reservations. Cloud Commitment Management includes these cost reductions in the net savings calculations.

    • Reserved order details is a table that shows you the details about your reserved instances. You can filter on the values in any of the fields. You can export the data as a CSV file.

      Fields in the table and export file
      • Reservation order ID: Azure reservation order identifier.
      • Reservation ID: The identifier of the reservation.
      • Reservation name: The name of the reservation.
      • Purchasing subscription ID: The subscription being charged for the reserved instance.
      • Subscription name: Purchasing subscription name.
      • Reservation type: Displays the different types of reserved instances available. Cloud Commitment Management supports only virtual machines.
      • Start date: Start date of the reservations.
      • End date: End date of the reservations.
      • Region: The regions specified for the reservation.
      • Scope: The scope applied to the reservation.
      • SKU name: The name of the product the reservation will cover.
      • Quantity: Number of reservations bought.
      • Amount: Cost of the reservation.
      • Bill frequency: Azure reservations can be billing up front or monthly.
      • Source: CCM or Non-CCM.

    • Reserved order usage is a table that shows you detailed information about your reserved instances, including utilization per reservation. You can filter on the values in any of the fields. You can export the data as a CSV or XLSX file.

      Fields in the table and export file
      • Reservation order ID: Azure reservation order identifier.
      • Reservation ID: The identifier of the reserved instance.
      • Source: CCM or Non-CCM.
      • Used hours: Number of reserved hours used for the specific reserved instance.
      • Reserved hours: Number of total hours the reserved instance has for the dates selected.
      • Utilization: Utilization percentage of the reserved instance for the dates selected.

    • Commitment usage distribution over time shows the amount of financial commitment that was actually used for savings.

      • You can filter the graph on subaccount ID, commitment ID, and commitment type. You can choose to view the graph by commitment type, commitment, or source.
      • You can filter the table on the values in any of the fields. You can export the data as a CSV or XLSX file.
      Fields in the table and export file
      • Subscription ID: Subscription number identifier.
      • Commitment ID: Identifier of the Reservation or Savings Plan. The row and ID appear when it fits within the relevant filters.
      • Commitment type: Reservation, Savings Plan.
      • Source: CCM or Non-CCM.
      • Equivalent OD price: What the on-demand price would have been during that time period.
      • Generated savings: How much you saved due to using commitments' discounted rates instead of the full on-demand rates. Calculation: On-demand equivalent minus commitments minus uncovered spend. Not necessarily the same as net savings.
      • $ Used: The total equivalent cost within the time range multiplied by the utilization.
        • Example 1: If the time range covered the entire term of the reservation, it was 100% utilized, and the total equivalent cost was $1000, the result would be $1000.
        • Example 2: If the time range was half the history of the same reservation, it would be $500.
        • Example 3: If it was only 50% utilized during that period, it would be $250.
        • Example 4: If the term of the RI is three years and only one year of the period has passed since it was purchased, it would be possible to show only 33.3% of the total equivalent cost in this field, at maximum.
      • % Used: Utilization within that time period.