# Main view
Access CAU Explorer by clicking its icon on the Provisioning Portal’s
top navigation bar.
## CAU Explorer views
The CAU Explorer **Main** screen provides an overview of costs in a bar chart
and table, with grouping and filtering.
## Key functions
The CAU Explorer’s dashboard can focus from full consolidated cost information,
drilling down to detailed scopes with filtering and grouping functions,
and the ability to download the data in the view, and reset the view to
default settings.
### Filters and groupings
The main view filters bar provides filters and grouping options, to refine
and narrow the scope of data in the view.
On the main view filters bar:
* Unfiltered options remain in gray text.
* Selected filters appear in black.
* **Time Period (UTC)** shows the chosen date range.
* Single-choice options (**Granularity**, **Group By** )
show the selected grouping.
* Multiple-choice options show the count of selected values that
the filter matches and displays.
**Search** for matching parameter values, by entering a
case-insensitive string.
Hover over a multiple-choice filter to reveal the “x” button for
clearing the selection.
You can determine the scope and summary group breakdowns, by applying your
selection of the following filters and groupings:
* **Time Period (UTC)**
The CAU Explorer dashboard allows the option to define a specific date
range, or select a predefined date range.
The available predefined date range buttons vary, depending on the
selected **Granularity** level (**Daily** or **Monthly**):
| | Date Range Button | Description | Granularity Level |
|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|---------------------|
| | | Daily | Monthly |
| **Last Week** | Data from the same day of the week, one week ago, until now. | ✓ | |
| **Last Month** | Data from the same day of the month, last month, until now. | ✓ | |
| **Last 3 Months** | Data from the same day of month, three months ago, until now. | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Last 6 Months** (current default) | Data from the same day of month, six months ago, until now. | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Last Year** | Data from the same day of month, one year ago, until now. | | ✓ |
| **Last 3 Years** | Data from the same day of month, three years ago, until now. | | ✓ |
| **Last 5 Years** | Data from the same day of month, five years ago, until now. | | ✓ |
| **Default** | The default date range. | ✓ | ✓ |
* **Granularity**
Granularity determines the available predefined date range buttons for
**Time Period**, and the summary totals level.
Select one of:
* **Monthly** (default) totals, broken down to **Group By** element
subtotals (if selected).
* **Daily** totals, broken down to **Group By** elements
subtotals (if selected).
* **Group By**
View the table summary totals, broken down according to a selected
grouping:
* **None** (default):
Displays a total per **Granularity** unit (month or day) for the
defined date range and other filters, and a grand total for all.
* **Resource Type**:
Displays a total per selected **Resource Type** for each
**Granularity** unit (month or day) for the defined date range and
other filters,
a summary total per **Resource Type** and a grand total for all.
* **Cloud**
Displays a total per selected **Cloud** for each
**Granularity** unit (month or day) for the defined date range and
other filters,
a summary total per **Resource Type** and a grand total for all.
* **Clouds**
A cloud refers to a specific deployment of Zadara’s infrastructure
services, such as compute, storage, and networking, at a specified
physical or virtual location.
Each Zadara cloud is uniquely identified and managed as an independent
service region or zone.
You can select or deselect clouds from the account’s clouds list,
to control the scope of billing data displayed.
By default, billing data from all clouds in the account is presented in
the view.
* **Resource types**
From the list of billed resource types, there’s the option to select or
deselect resource types, such as Elastic IP, Virtual Machine, Volume and
VPSA, from the scope of the presented billing information.
By default, billing data from all resource types is presented in the
view.
* **Items**
An item is an instance of a resource type component associated with a
cloud, for example, an HDD or SDD of a specified capacity, a VPSA Engine,
a VM instance, and so on.
From a list of items, there’s the option to select or deselect Items
such as specific instances of resource types,
from the scope of the presented billing information.
By default, billing data from all items is presented in the view.
* **Billable types**
From a list of billable types, there’s the option to select or deselect
billable types, such as data reduction services, VPSA engine and disk types,
and compute instance types,
from the scope of the presented billing information.
By default, billing data from all billable types is presented in the view.
* **Customers**
A customer is a user’s Provisioning Portal username.
From a list of customers, there’s the option to select or deselect
customers from the scope of the presented billing information.
By default, billing data from all customers is presented in the view.
* **Compute Accounts**
A compute account is a tenant-scoped identity and container, used to
isolate and manage virtualized compute resources within a Zadara cloud
environment.
From a list of compute accounts, there’s the option to select or
deselect compute accounts from the scope of the presented billing information.
By default, billing data from all compute accounts is presented in the view.
* **Reset to Default**
The **Reset to Default** button is on the right of the filter and
grouping selection options bar.
Click **Reset to Default** to remove the custom period, granularity,
grouping and filter selections, and restore the default view.
### Estimation
If the daily scheduled process fails to populate the CAU database due
to a network outage or another issue, the system calculates an estimate
based on historical usage data.
Each week, the system attempts to replace estimated entries with actual
usage data.
In the table, affected periods are shown with different shading and a
circled question mark icon in the column heading.
When you hover over the shaded column in the table or the corresponding
bar in the chart, a tooltip appears with the **Estimation** label.
### Downloads
#### Download main view to CSV (Explorer UI)
The main view **Download CSV** button is located at the top right.
Click **Download CSV** to export the current displayed data, and save it
as a file in `.csv` format. The scope of the saved data is according to
the selected time period, granularity, grouping and filters.
The saved `.csv` file has the same structure and values as the table in
the lower section of the CAU Explorer.
#### Download main view to JSON (CLI)
From the command line, you can use the Provisioning Portal’s
[GET Organizations](https://api-doc.zadarastorage.com/?urls.primaryName=Provisioning%20Portal#/Organizations/get_organization)
API to download CAU Explorer data, and optionally apply a custom
time period, granularity, grouping and filters.
See the
[Zadara Provisioning Portal API](https://api-doc.zadarastorage.com/?urls.primaryName=Provisioning%20Portal)
documentation’s Overview section for information about the **Endpoint**
base URL and retrieving an **Authentication** token.
Usage:
```console
curl -X 'GET' \
'/api/v2/organizations//cost_explorer.json \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'X-Token: '
```
You can optionally extend the URL with a query that applies a custom
time period, granularity, grouping and filters.
For example, applying the following filters:
* **Granularity** as monthly:
```console
?granularity=monthly
```
* **Time period** from 2024-03-01 to 2024-06-30 in `yyyy-mm-dd` format:
```console
&from=2024%2F03%2F01&to=2024%2F06%2F30
```
* **Group By** cloud:
```console
&group_by=cloud
```
Extending the URL to apply the above filters:
```console
curl -X 'GET' \
'https://manage.zadarastorage.com/api/v2/organizations/1a2b..36.char.UUID.string..x9z/cost_explorer.json?granularity=monthly&from=2024%2F03%2F01&to=2024%2F06%2F30&group_by=cloud \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'X-Token: A1b2..token.string..yz'
```
The request above returns data in a JSON structure similar to the following
response:
```console
{
"data": {
"2024-03-31": {
"total": 14508.00,
"cloud-01": 899.00,
"cloud-02": 1457.00,
"cloud-03": 1209.00,
"cloud-04": 1674.00,
"cloud-05": 1209.00,
"cloud-06": 1395.00,
"cloud-07": 1519.00,
"cloud-08": 1426.00,
"cloud-09": 1860.00,
"cloud-10": 1860.00
},
"2024-04-30": {
"total": 14040.00,
"cloud-01": 870.00,
"cloud-02": 1410.00,
"cloud-03": 1170.00,
"cloud-04": 1620.00,
"cloud-05": 1170.00,
"cloud-06": 1350.00,
"cloud-07": 1470.00,
"cloud-08": 1380.00,
"cloud-09": 1800.00,
"cloud-10": 1800.00
},
"2024-05-31": {
"total": 14508.00,
"cloud-01": 899.00,
"cloud-02": 1457.00,
"cloud-03": 1209.00,
"cloud-04": 1674.00,
"cloud-05": 1209.00,
"cloud-06": 1395.00,
"cloud-07": 1519.00,
"cloud-08": 1426.00,
"cloud-09": 1860.00,
"cloud-10": 1860.00
},
"2024-06-30": {
"total": 14040.00,
"cloud-01": 870.00,
"cloud-02": 1410.00,
"cloud-03": 1170.00,
"cloud-04": 1620.00,
"cloud-05": 1170.00,
"cloud-06": 1350.00,
"cloud-07": 1470.00,
"cloud-08": 1380.00,
"cloud-09": 1800.00,
"cloud-10": 1800.00
}
},
"totals": {
"cloud-01": 3538.00,
"cloud-02": 5734.00,
"cloud-03": 4758.00,
"cloud-04": 6588.00,
"cloud-05": 4758.00,
"cloud-06": 5490.00,
"cloud-07": 5978.00,
"cloud-08": 5612.00,
"cloud-09": 7320.00,
"cloud-10": 7320.00,
"total": 57096.00
},
"currency": "USD"
}
```