How to use the Hyperglance Cost Explorer's Sankey diagram
Hyperglance provides a quick, easy way to explore your billing data with a Sankey diagram:
Page Controls
1) Adjust the cost filters and add columns to the Sankey chart. Each section here is a cost dimension that corresponds with a column in the Sankey (e.g. Cloud Platform, Account, Region, Service, Transaction Type). You can add, remove and rearrange them from here. Each cost dimension section can be filtered by clicking the filtering box:
2) Adjust the time range over which the cost values are summed:
3) Reduce noise by filtering out very small cost values:
4) Export your sankey image to various formats:
5) Take your currently applied cost filters and transfer over to the Trends & Anomalies page:
Visualization Interactions
Click on any point in the cost visualization to activate the controls menu.
Click on any part of the sankey diagram to bring up the actions menu:
Applying a filter from this menu will update the filtering at the top of the page:
Selecrting 'See Resources' will show a list of inventory items that contributed spend to that point in the diagram (see below).
'See Resources'
This shows resources that contribute spend to the point on the sankey that you selected:
Each resource listing may have multiple line-items underneath it, if it incurred charges for multiple different reasons such as uptime as well as datatransfer. Select the plus symbol on the left to expand and see the detailed line-items:
By default Hyperglance only shows the items that are currently in the inventory, which could be none! By unchecking this option it will show everything:
