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1. Select **Cost by service** and then group by **Service tier**.
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1. Change the view to **Table**.
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## View cost breakdown by Azure resource
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1. Select **Cost by resource**.
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1. Change the view to **Table**.
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[](./media/cost-analysis-common-uses/cost-by-resource.png#lightbox)
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## View cost breakdown by selected dimensions
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Dimensions allow you to organize your costs based on various metadata values shown in your charges. For example, you could group your costs by location.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example: **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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1. Select the **Group by** filter.
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[](./media/cost-analysis-common-uses/group-by.png#lightbox)
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1. Optionally, you save the view for later use.
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1. Click a pie chart below the graph to view more detailed data.
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[](./media/cost-analysis-common-uses/drill-down.png#lightbox)
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## View costs per day or by month
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example: **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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1. Set the **Granularity** to **Monthly** or **Daily**.
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## View your Spot VM charges
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Spot VMs can provide large cost savings for workloads that can handle interruptions. Workloads are run on unused Azure capacity. Since they can be evicted at any time, Spot VMs get a significant discount. Use the following steps to view your Spot VM charges.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example, **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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2. Add a filter for **Pricing Model: Spot**.
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The Pricing Model dimension is also used to view on demand and reservation charges.
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## View your reservation charges
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**Amortized cost** - Shows a reservation purchase split as an amortized cost over the duration of the reservation term. Using the same example above, cost analysis shows a $100 cost for each month throughout the year, if you purchased a one-year reservation for $1200 in January. If you group costs by VM in this example, you'd see cost attributed to each VM that received the reservation benefit.
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## View your Spot VM charges
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Spot VMs can provide large cost savings for workloads that can handle interruptions. Workloads are run on unused Azure capacity. Since they can be evicted at any time, Spot VMs get a significant discount. Use the following steps to view your Spot VM charges.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example, **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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The Pricing Model dimension is also used to view on demand and reservation charges.
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## View your reservation utilization
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After you buy a reservation, it's important to track its utilization so that you get what you paid for. For example, if you bought 10 VMs for a year and only use five of them, then essentially half of the purchase is wasted. There are two different ways to assess your utilization:
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1. Group charges by **Charge Type**.
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1. Review the results for `unusedreservation` values.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example: **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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1. Select **Group by** for your tag.
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[](./media/cost-analysis-common-uses/tag.png#lightbox)
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## Download your usage details
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Your usage details report file, in CSV format, provides a breakdown of all the charges that accrued towards an invoice. You can use the report to compare it to, and better understand, your invoice. Each billed charge on your invoice corresponds to broken-down charges in the usage report.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to the **Usage and Charges** tab for a billing account or subscription. For example: **Cost Management + Billing** > **Billing** > **Usage + charges**.
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1. Select the line item to download from and then click the download symbol.
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1. Select the usage file to download.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to **Cost Management + Billing** > **Overview**.
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1. Click **Breakdown** for the current month and view your monetary commitment burn down.
1. Click the **Usage and Charges** tab and view the prior month's breakdown in the chosen timespan.
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## View enrollment monthly cost by term
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You can group by and filter your data for a more detailed analysis.
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## View EA enrollment accumulated costs
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example: **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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1. Select your enrollment and then view your current accumulated costs.
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