Cost Transparency and Service Health

Whether it’s public cloud or the private datacenter, your IT resources cost money. If you don’t have complete visibility and accountability it can lead to thousands or millions of dollars being wasted. Don’t let your IT environment spin out of control. 

Leverage CloudBolt so your end users can see and understand what they’re spending up front before it’s too late. For your hybrid cloud environment, you can assign or ingest rates to hardware, operating systems, applications, blueprint items, and other parameters in CloudBolt to provide your users with a preview of the rate that their orders will incur before they submit their request. You can generate detailed reports for all your resources to drive more accountability through showback and chargeback.

CloudBolt is designed to be a proactive system for a hybrid cloud environment. You can control cost using in-built features such as quotas, expiration dates, and budget.  

For example, you can set quotas for a group or user. When the quota reaches a defined threshold, CloudBolt will send email alerts to the user or group. The out–of–the box value for the threshold is 80%.  

You can also set expiration dates for various resources. Checks for expired servers are done using a shell script, which is run nightly. You can run the scan manually or change the schedule. Once the condition is met, you can alert the user before taking the resource back or give an option to request extension.