How to Create a Cost Report

You can create Cost Reports in Sysdig Monitor to understand how much your organization is spending on certain workloads, containers, and namespaces. You can automate periodic reports and send them out to Slack and email, or export them for analysis in third-party tools.

Create a Report

To create a Costs Report:

  1. Log in to Sysdig Monitor, and select Costs | Reports or Costs | Costs Explorer.

  2. From either Reports or Cost Explorer, select Create New Report in the top right corner.

    The New Report page opens.

  3. Configure the report details:

  • Name: Enter a unique name for your report.
  • Description: Enter a meaningful description.
  • Report type: Select your preferred report type.
    • Workload Cost Trends: Analyze workload cost changes over time to track spending trends. This is useful for comparing costs between periods. See Workload Cost Trends Report
    • Wasted Workload Spend: Gain insight into expenses from oversized or underutilized workloads. This is useful for identifying inefficiencies in resource usage. See Wasted Workload Spend Report
  • Export Format: Choose the format the report should be exported in: JSON or CSV. You can export reports for offline processing or integration with third-party tools.

  1. Define the report. By default, the scope includes the Team Scope of the team your current login. You can see the form your report will take in the Data Preview below.

  2. Filter the scope with labels. For example, to limit the report to the namespace risk-flow, use the labels kube_namespace_name in risk-flow. You can add multiple labels to build a highly specific report.

  3. Use Group By to determine which grouping columns will appear in the report. Wasted Workload Spend reports have the groups kube_cluster_name, kube_namespace_name, and kube_workload_name by default.

  4. Time Window: For Wasted Workload Spend, choose the Time Window of the report.

  5. Set the frequency of the report. This determines the time frame of cost data included in the final report.

  6. Select which notification channel, if any, should be notified when the report is ready. Slack and email are supported. Both options will present friendly reports for your team. For details, see Set Up Notification Channels.

You can observe a Preview of the data to export. You can also retrieve the latest report through our API and connect with your preferred tools.