Overview
To help you make informed billing decisions when managing your VIDIZMO Account deployed on SaaS environment, you can view your Consumption Reports with the ease of a single click. The reports are generated on a daily basis and can be filtered with multiple specific and customizable time period for a more thorough usage analysis.
In VIDIZMO, the detailed consumption reports can be utilized by an organization to monitor resources, maintain budgets and overages of the VIDIZMO resources being consumed.
Before you start
- Administrators will be able to view, filter and extract out Consumption Reports.
Extract Reports
1. After logging into your portal, from your homepage:
- Click on the Navigation Menu on top left corner.
- Expand Admin tab.
- Click on Portal Settings.
2. From the Portal Settings screen:
- Click on Account on bottom of the list to expand it.
- Select the Billing Reports option.
3. For all the Category Summary tabs and Trends tab, you can extract report(s), in CSV format, by clicking on the download button available on the top right corner of that report.
Filter Reports
Date Filter
VIDIZMO allows you to select the duration for which you need to view the usage. There are separate date filters available for the summary tab for each category as well as trend tab.
Category Summary
The date filter in these tabs are based on the Billing Period specified for that category while purchasing the license.
The Billing Period is displayed on the top right corner for each Category tab.
Follow the steps below in order to filter VIDIZMO's detailed consumption reports for the any category. Let's take an example of Storage with monthly Billing Period:
- Go to Storage category tab
- Navigate to date filter and click to expand it.
- Select any month before the current month to display the usage report.
Note: By default, the current month/year/quarter/half's view is generated in Category Summary.
Trends
Follow the steps below in order to filter VIDIZMO's detailed consumption reports for the Trends:
- Go to Trends tab
- Navigate to date filter and click to expand it.
- Select one of the options available in the drop down to generate trend reports for all the categories.
Note: By default, the current week's view is generated in Trends.
Attribute Filter
Apart from Date Filter, Admins may also apply attribute-based filtering specific to a particular report. Follow the steps below in order to apply attribute-based filtering on any report. For demonstration purposes, the Users tab is chosen.
- From the User Summary report section, click on Allowed Limit filter to hide its data from the report. This can be done to hide any attribute from the reports being generated.
Note: You can also apply filters prior to exporting report and then export only required data.
Toggle Report View
To give you convenience VIDIZMO allows you to toggle between graphical view and tabular form of data, To switch between different views follow the steps below:
i. To view the tabular view, click on the Tabular View button.
ii. To revert to the graphical view, click on the Graphical View button.
Read Next
- Consumption Reports for SaaS Deployment Overview
- Understanding Consumption based Billing
- Billing Report Overview