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Your profile

View your profile​

To view your profile:

  1. Log in to the DoiT Console.

  2. Select your account name in the upper-right corner of the top navigation menu, and then select your name from the drop-down menu.

    The profile drop-down menu.

    This will open your Users page, which consists of four sections: Profile, Permissions, Notifications, and API.

Profile information​

On the Profile page, you can edit the following information:

  • First Name, Last Name: Your display name in the DoiT Console.

  • Job Function: Account admins can use job function to help manage your organization.

  • Phone Number: Your international dialing code and local number.

  • Default Dashboard: The default dashboard when you log in.

Changes made to any field on this page will be automatically saved by the DoiT Platform.

Note

Admins or users with the Users Manager permission can edit any user profile.

Permissions​

On the Permissions page, you can find the following information:

  • Your currently-assigned role

  • A list of your role entitlements (i.e., permissions)

  • A list of your assigned billing profiles

Note

Admins or users with the Users Manager permission can update user roles.

Admins or users with the Billing Profile Admin permission can manage assigned billing profiles.

Notification preferences​

On the Notifications page, you can opt in or out of various notification types as well as choose email digests for your account.

The Notifications screen

Notification types​

  • New Invoices: Get notified when there is a new invoice or adjustment. The notification email contains a link to the invoice.

  • Credits Utilization: Get notified on 75% of your Google Cloud or AWS credits and when they are fully exhausted.

  • Cloud Quota Utilization: Get notified when your Google Cloud or AWS service quotas utilization is over 50%. That is, we check your usage every 4 hours and if it's over 50%, we'll send you a notification.

  • Cloud Cost Anomalies: Get notified when your cloud costs deviate from the anticipation (see Manage anomaly notifications for details).

  • Payment Due/Overdue: Get notified when invoices are due or overdue.

    • We send the first reminder 7 days before an invoice is due.
    • We send the second reminder 4 days after the invoice's due date.
    • We send the third reminder 10 days after the invoice's due date.

  • Cloud incidents: Get notified of known infrastructure issues with Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services.

Digests​

Daily digest​

Receive one daily digest email per selected attribution detailing:

  • Previous day's cost
  • Month to date cost (sum costs accrued in the current month)
  • Cost trend (current month cost to date vs. previous month costs for the same date)
  • Forecasted current month cost

We send daily digests at 14:00 Pacific Time Zone.

Note

DoiT daily digests are provided mainly for informational purposes. Daily digests and the native tools by cloud service providers (e.g., Google Cloud console, AWS Cost Explorer) update at different intervals and times; the numbers are not expected to match when a daily digest is sent.

See also When are the metric amounts (Cost, Usage, etc) for a day counted as "final"?.

Weekly digest​

Receive one weekly digest email per selected attribution detailing:

  • Previous week's cost
  • Month to date cost (sum costs accrued in the current month)
  • Cost trend (current month cost to date vs. previous month costs for the same date)
  • Forecasted current month cost

We send weekly digests on Monday at 14:00 Pacific Time Zone.

Note

DoiT weekly digests are provided mainly for informational purposes. Weekly digests and the native tools by cloud service providers (e.g., Google Cloud console, AWS Cost Explorer) update at different intervals and times; the numbers are not expected to match when a weekly digest is sent.

See also When are the metric amounts (Cost, Usage, etc) for a day counted as "final"?.

Monthly digest​

Monthly digests summarize your spend during the last month, including:

  • Comparisons
  • Trend analysis
  • List of savings derived from Flexsave, Spot Scaling, and Commitment contracts
  • List of tickets resolved during the last month

We send monthly digests on the 5th day of each month, following the month when you enabled the Monthly digest notification.

Default notifications​

New users are assigned default notifications according to their role. These notifications ensure that users are informed about important events related to their job function.

RoleDefault notifications
AdminQuota utilization, cost anomalies, payments due or overdue, cloud incidents, daily and monthly digests
Finance UserNew invoices, cost anomalies, payments due or overdue
Power UserQuota utilization, cost anomalies, cloud incidents, daily and monthly digests
Standard UserCost anomalies, daily and monthly digests

API key​

You need an API key to use the DoiT Platform API. To manage your API key, select API from the left-hand sidebar.

To generate a new API key, select Generate API Key.

  • After generating your API key, copy and store it. It will not be displayed again in the DoiT Console once you leave the API page.

  • You can download your API key as a JSON file or copy it to your system clipboard, using the download or copy button in the API Key text box.

To delete your API key, select the Delete Key.

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