Introduction to Zadara Cost and Usage (CAU) Explorer

Zadara Cost and Usage (CAU) Explorer is a centralized analytics tool that enables organization billing administrators to analyze their usage and costs across Zadara services.

The CAU Explorer offers both monthly and daily cost visualizations in graphical and tabular formats, with grouping, filtering, drill-downs, and CSV export functionality.

Important

All cost figures, usage estimates, and projections displayed within the Cost Explorer do not include applicable taxes or VAT. For official and complete financial details-including tax and VAT-please refer exclusively to the invoices issued to your account, which are considered the definitive source for billing and compliance purposes.

Early Preview Period

When accessing the CAU Explorer during the Early Preview period, the CAU Explorer displays an Early Preview notice, informing you of potential limitations and issues.

By proceeding, you acknowledge and accept these conditions:

Important

Early Preview

Please note that the information presented in this service is for informational purposes only and is not a replacement for official invoices provided by Zadara.

The Cost and Usage Explorer service is currently in Early Preview. This means the service is still under active development and may undergo significant changes.

While we strive to provide accurate and reliable data, features and functionality may be limited, and occasional disruptions or inaccuracies may occur.

For billing and payment purposes, always refer to your official invoice.

By using the service during this preview phase, you acknowledge and accept these limitations.

CAU Explorer Availability

Note

CAU Explorer is available to users with a valid Zadara account in the Global Provisioning Portal at https://manage.zadarastorage.com.

During the Early Preview period, the CAU Explorer is available for selected customers and on-demand.

Data flow

The system tracks cost and usage activity for provisioned resources for all clouds, and pushes that information to a centralized location.

Note

The CAU Explorer’s cost and usage data is processed by a scheduled job on a daily basis, and not as a live stream. As a result, refreshed data viewing can be expected to be delayed by up to 24 hours.

By default, the job that processes periodic costs and usage and populates the CAU database is scheduled to run at 14:00 daily. The job can run for several minutes.

Estimation

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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.

Data Retention period

Customers can review their historic usage in the CAU Explorer:

  • Monthly data is retained for 62 months.

  • Daily data is retained for 92 days.