Generating a chargeback report

You use the Chargeback page in the Tenant Management Console to generate chargeback reports. From this page, you can generate an hourly, daily, or monthly report:

An hourly report includes statistics for the most recent full hour, plus the statistics accumulated so far for the current hour. For example, if you request the report at 2:30:15 p.m., it will contain one set of statistics for the period of time between 1:00:00 p.m. and 1:59:59 p.m. and another set of statistics for the period of time between 2:00:00 p.m. and 2:30:15 p.m.

A daily report includes statistics for the most recent full day, plus the statistics accumulated so far for the current day. For example, if you request the report at 2:30:15 p.m. on October 7th, it will contain 24 sets of statistics for the period of time between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 on October 6th and 15 sets of statistics for the period of time between 00:00:00 and 2:30:15 p.m. on October 7th.

A monthly report includes statistics for the past 30 days, plus the statistics accumulated so far for the current day. For example, if you request the report at 2:30:15 p.m. on October 7th, it will contain 24 sets of statistics for each of the past 30 days and 15 sets of statistics for the period of time between 00:00:00 and 2:30:15 p.m. on October 7th.

Note: The statistics reported for the current hour may not reflect some reads and writes that have already occurred during the hour. After the hour is past, however, the statistics reported for it are complete.

Tip: You can use the HCP management API to generate chargeback reports that cover longer time periods and are in XML, JSON, or CSV format. This allows you to create applications that generate chargeback reports at regular intervals and feed those reports to a billing system. For information on using the management API to generate chargeback reports, see HCP Management API Reference.

Roles: To generate a chargeback report, you need the monitor or administrator role.

To generate a chargeback report:

1.In the top-level menu in the Tenant Management Console, mouse over Monitoring to display a secondary menu.

2.In the secondary menu, click on Chargeback.

3.On the Chargeback page, click on the Hourly Chargeback Report, Daily Chargeback Report, or Monthly Chargeback Report link, as applicable, and select the browser-specific option for downloading the report.

By default, the name of the downloaded report file is either Hourly-Chargeback-Report.csv, Daily-Chargeback-Report.csv, or Monthly-Chargeback-Report.csv, as applicable.

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