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Access anomalies

Required permissions​

  • Attributions Manager, Anomalies Viewer, Cloud Analytics

View the anomaly list​

To view the list of detected cost anomalies, select Governance from the top navigation menu, and then select Cost anomalies.

The DoiT platform stores all the historical cost anomalies. You can change the Time range or use anomaly properties to filter the results.

The cost anomalies list page.

Anomaly properties​

Each anomaly entry on the Cost anomalies page provides the following information (you can use the Edit columns option to change which columns to show or hide):

  • Start Time: The start time of the hourly usage window when the aggregated cost exceeds the predefined threshold and is considered a potential anomaly.

    The time value comes from the billing data by the cloud providers: for AWS it is the lineItem/UsageStartDate (UTC); for Google Cloud it is the usage_start_time (PT); for Azure it is the property usageStart (UTC). See also Time zone.

  • Status: (valid for anomalies detected after December 11, 2023) Shows the status of an anomaly and whether it has been acknowledged. See Dynamic updates and acknowledge a cost anomaly for more information.

  • Project/Account: See Hierarchy groups: Project/Account ID. This field shows All if the anomaly was detected at service level instead of at SKU level.

  • Service: See Resource metadata: Service.

  • SKU: The Stock Keeping Unit of a service. See Resource metadata: SKU.This field shows All if the anomaly was detected at service level instead of at SKU level.

  • Source: The source data that the cost anomaly was based on.

    • Billing data: The anomaly was detected using billing data by the cloud provider.

    • Real-time usage data: The anomaly was detected using estimated on-demand costs based on usage data derived from AWS CloudTrail events.

  • Severity: The severity level of the anomaly. There are three severity levels: Information, Warning, and Critical. They're defined by DoiT in accordance with the extent to which the actual cost deviates from the established pattern.

  • Cost of anomaly: The difference between the actual cost and the maximum cost in the normal range.

  • Anomaly: A thumbnail image of the anomaly chart.

  • Details: Select the View button in this column to view the details of a specific anomaly.

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