Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Cost Analysis Scheduled Report

Create a Cost Analysis scheduled report in Billing and Cost Management.

    1. On the Scheduled reports list page, select Create a scheduled report. If you need help finding the list page or the scheduled report, see Listing Cost Analysis Scheduled Reports.
    2. In the Create a scheduled report panel, enter the following information:
      • Name: Enter a name for the scheduled report. Avoid entering confidential information.
      • Description: (Optional) Enter a description of the scheduled report. Avoid entering confidential information.
      • Saved report: Select the saved report to associate with the scheduled report.
      • Start date: Select the date to start the scheduled report on.
      • Recurrence: Select the frequency of the scheduled report.
      • Format: Select the format for the scheduled report: CSV or PDF
      • Region: Select the region for the scheduled report.

        Scheduled reports can be saved only in one region, so you can select the region where your files are saved.

      • Bucket: Select the Object Storage Standard storage tier bucket to save the scheduled report results to.
        Note

        Only Standard tier buckets are supported. No other storage tiers are supported with scheduled reports.

        You must have the required policy to grant write permissions to the bucket. For more information, see Required IAM Policy.

    3. Select Create.

      A message indicates that the scheduled report was saved successfully.

  • Use the oci usage-api schedule create command and required parameters to create a Cost Analysis scheduled report:

    oci usage-api schedule create --compartment-id compartment_ocid --name name --result-location result_location --schedule-recurrences schedule_recurrences --time-scheduled time_scheduled [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of parameters and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

  • Run the CreateSchedule operation to create a Cost Analysis scheduled report.