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    Resources Summary Report

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    Introduction

    The Resource Summary Report provides a structured, two-month overview of resource-level changes in an Excel format, designed to support strategic decision-making. The report is organized into separate sheets for:

    • Newly Charged Resources – Resources that have recently started generating costs.
    • Resources No Longer Charged – Resources that have been decommissioned or are no longer incurring costs.
    • Resources with Cost Savings – Resources that have achieved cost reductions exceeding the user-defined threshold.
    • Resources with Cost Overruns – Resources whose costs have exceeded the user-defined threshold.

    By presenting these insights, the report enables executives and management teams to:

    • Track changes in resource usage and associated costs.
    • Identify areas of cost efficiency and opportunities for optimization.
    • Monitor budget compliance and proactively address cost overruns.
    • Make informed decisions to align resource allocation with organizational and financial goals.

    Report Configuration

    Refer to the steps below to schedule Resource Summary Reports on a monthly basis for the desired cost management group:

    1. Navigate into the cost management group to which the cost summary report is to be configured.
    2. Click the Edit icon next to the Resource Summary report type.
    3. Turn on the required data toggles to include those details in the report.
    4. Configure a cost threshold for each data section so that its data is shown only when costs exceed the specified limit.
    5. Check Download report from notifications to allow the report to be downloaded from alerts.
    6. Choose the desired notification services to receive alerts.
    7. Click Save.
    8. Enable the Resources Summary report type toggle.

    Resource summary configuration.png

    Important notes
    • The configured cost threshold is defined using the billing currency.
    • Resource Summary Reports can only be scheduled on a monthly basis.
    • Report generation will fail if the cost management group contains subscriptions with different billing currencies.

    Instant Reports

    On-demand monthly Resource Summary Reports can be generated with the help of Generate Now option available within the report configuration wizard.

    Generate now.png

    Generation History

    All triggered reports for the relevant cost management group appear in the Generation history, with a download option provided next to each record for easy access.

    Generation history.png

    Sample Report

    The following image illustrates a sample Monthly Resources Summary report downloaded from the Generation history:

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