Cost management

Quickstarts > 11. Cost management

In this learning module, you will learn how to view your organization's usage, set budgets, and create and apply resource tags in the NHN Cloud console. This will enable you to effectively manage your organization's cloud resources and operate cost-effectively.

Learning objectives

In this learning module, you'll learn

• Check your organization's usage
  • Check your organization's usage in the NHN Cloud Console
  • View usage amounts for the entire organization and specific projects
  • View usage details for individual resources
• Manage your organization's budget
  • How to set budgets for your organization and apply budgets to specific projects and services
  • Set up over-budget alerts
• Utilizing resource tags
  • Creating resource tags to manage specific resource groups in the NHN Cloud console
  • Apply resource tags and view usage

Before you begin

Before you begin this learning module, here's what you need to know

• Standard Internet browser
  • You must have the latest version of a browser installed, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, or Safari.
  • JavaScript and cookies must be enabled in your browser settings.
• Internet connection environment
  • A stable internet connection is required, with a recommended bandwidth of at least 5 Mbps.
  • You must be able to communicate securely over HTTPS.
• Member account
  • You must have an NHN Cloud account with a registered payment method.
  • You must be logged in to the NHN Cloud portal.

This guide starts after 10. Optimize scalability and performance.

Manage your organization's usage and budget

Step 1. Check your organization's usage

You can view a detailed breakdown of the services used by your MyORG organization.

1. From the top menu of the NHN Cloud console, select the organization(MyORG), project(MyPRJ), and Korea (Pyeongchon) regionthat you want to use for your lab.
2. Click MyORG in the top menu of the NHN Cloud console.
3. Click the Usage tab at the top of the MyORG organization screen.
4. On the Services tab, view the organization-wide final amount for your organization, and click MyPRJunder Organization to view the detailed project usage amounts.
5. Click each resource item to see a detailed breakdown of the amount spent.

Step 2. Manage your organization's budget

You can add budget information for the MyORG organization and set it up to receive notifications when you go over budget.

1. Click MyORG on the Organizations tab located at the top of the NHN Cloud console.
2. Click the Manage budget tab at the top of the MyORG organization screen.
3. + Add budget.
4. In the Add Budget window, enter the information below, and then click Add Budget Complete.
   • Budget information
     • Name: MyBudget
     • Budget: Amount, 10000
     • Projects: All projects
     • Services: Compute, Instance, and 7 others (default)
   • Notification thresholds
     • Threshold: 1
     • Threshold criteria: Notify when exceeded
     • Threshold threshold day: 15 days, Uncheck Receive usage notifications on threshold day
   • Who receives notifications
     • Check the email of the user registered as a member, NHN Cloud member user information, and select the Email checkbox.
5. View your budgets and usage of MyBudget in the list of added budgets.

Utilizing resource tags

Step 1. Create a resource tag

1. In the top menu of the NHN Cloud console, click the organization you want to use for the lab(MyORG).
2. Within the MyORG organization dashboard , under Organization Service Usage,click Resource Watcher.
3. On the Resource Watcher screen, click the Resource Tags tab in the tab menu.
4. Click + Create Resource Tag.
5. On the Create Resource Tag screen, set the information below and click Add.
   • Tag key: MyInstanceTag
   • Tag value: empty
6. +Click Create Resource Tag.
7. On the Create Resource Tag screen, set the information below and click Add.
   • Tag key: MyStorageTag
   • Tag value: empty
8. Select the MyInstanceTag resource tag, and then click Edit Tag on the right.
9. In the Edit Resource Tag window, click + Add Tag Value, type webserverin the Tag Value field, and then click Save.
10. +Click Add Tag Valueagain, type dbserverin the Tag Value field that appears, and then click Save.
11. Click OKto close the Edit Resource Tag window.
12. Select the MyStorageTag resource tag, and then click Edit Tag on the right.
13. In the Edit Resource Tag window, click + Add Tag Value, type blockstoragein the Tag Value field, and then click Save.
14. Click OK to close the Edit Resource Tag window.

Step 2. Apply the resource tags you created

Set resource tags for each of the instance, database, and blockstore resources that your MyORG organization is using.

1. Within the MyORG organization dashboard, under Organization Service Usage, click Resource Watcher.
2. On the Resource Watcher screen, click the Resources tab from the tab menu.
3. In Resource name, type linux-server-basic, and then click Search.
4. On the search results screen, click the resource with the resource name linux-server-basic.
5. In the Split Detail pane at the bottom, click Settings for the Resource Tag entry.
6. In the 'linux-server-basic' resource tag settings window, make the settings as shown below and click OK.
   • Tag key: MyInstanceTag
   • Tag Key: Tag Value: MyInstanceTag: webserver
7. Click Initialize.
8. In Resource name,type mysql-db-basic, and then click Search.
9. On the search results screen, click the resource named mysql-db-basic.
10. In the Split Detail pane at the bottom, click Settings for the Resource Tag entry.
11. In the my-sql-basic resource tag settings window, make the settings as shown below and click OK.
    • Tag key: MyInstanceTag
    • Tag Key: Tag Value: MyInstanceTag: dbserver
12. Click Reset.
13. For Resource Type,click the drop-down menu labeled All, and then type Block Storage.
14. Under Discovered resource types, click Block Storageto select the checkbox.
15. Click Search.
16. On the search results screen, click the resource with the resource name MyBS.
17. In the Split Detail pane at the bottom, click Settingsfor the Resource Tag entry.
18. In the MyBS Resource Tag Settings window, make the settings as shown below and click OK.
    • Tag key: MyStorageTag
    • Tag key: Tag value: MyStorageTag: blockstorage

Step 3. Check usage with resource tags

Use resource tags to view detailed usage of the instance, database, and block storage resources your MyORG organization is using.

1. In the top menu of the NHN Cloud console, click the organization you want to use for the lab(MyORG).
2. On the MyORG organization screen, click the Usage tab.
3. On the Utilization screen, click the Resources tab from the tab menu.
4. Within the screen, click Setup and then Search, as shown below.
   • View by
     • Select the tag key: MyInstanceTag
     • Select tag value: webserver
5. At the bottom, you'll see the amount spent per resource tag.

   [Note]

   • By resource tag usage
     • When you apply a resource tag to a resource, you can see usage and charges separately from the time you apply it. There may be a difference between the amount of usage you see by resource and the amount you are actually billed.
     • Usage amounts based on resource tags are available from the time of aggregation the day after the resource tag is applied.

6. Within the screen, click Setup and then Search, as shown below.
   • View by
     • Select the tag key: MyInstanceTag
     • Select tag value: dbserver
7. At the bottom, you'll see the amount spent per resource tag.
8. Within the screen, click Setup and then Search, as shown below.
   • View by
     • Select Tag Key: MyStorageTag
     • Select tag value: blockstorage
9. At the bottom, you'll see the amount spent per resource tag.

References

• Manage notifications
• NHN Cloud Pricing
• Resource tags

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