Overview
The Credit Consumption report shows the monthly consumption of credits for a specified period. By default, this period is set to 12 months. An administrator can view the report and download it. There is a provision to schedule this report as well. The report will be scheduled on the first day of every month at the time set by the administrator. Before getting into the details of this report, let's briefly know about Druva credits and credits consumption. There are different sections of Credits Consumption on the report such as Storage, Early deletion of LTR or Archive data, and Additional Resources. In addition to that savings options like LTR Savings and Archive savings are displayed along with the Credit Balance and Credit Term.
📝 Note
This report is not generated for customers who are onboarded through the AWS Marketplace or are in the non-term contract.
Credits
Credits describe the prepaid storage that is consumed as the data is stored in the Cloud. One Druva credit allows you to store 1 TB of deduplicated data in the Cloud for one month. A credit is expressed in TB-Month.
You can pre-purchase the Druva credits depending on the volume of your organization’s data to be stored in the Cloud. For example, if your organization needs to store an average of 10 TB of deduplicated data in the Cloud each month for the next one year, you need to purchase 120 credits (TB-Months) that would be consumed as data is stored in the Cloud.
Credit consumption
Druva billing mechanism charges for the actual storage consumed in the Cloud. The Management Console displays the balance credits in TB-Months. However, for more accurate calculation, Druva calculates the actual credits in TB-Days and then converts the value into TB-Months. Druva converts the credits in TB-Months into a daily equivalent in TB-Days by dividing the credits by 12 and multiplying by 365.
One TB-Month = (1/12)*365 = 30.42 TB-Days
Credits are then reduced by the daily amount stored in the Cloud, after deduplication. If the Cloud stores 1 TB data over 30.42 days, Druva consumes one credit.
Procedure
Log in to the Druva Cloud Platform Console.
Go to Global Navigation Panel > Reports > Hybrid Workloads. The Hybrid Workloads Reports page appears.
Click Credit Consumption.
The Credit Consumption page appears. By default, the report provides details of the resource trails that occurred in the last 30 days.
You can apply filters to the CreditConsumption report to fetch monthly consumption of credits for a specified period. You can view the generated report, download it, or send it through an email to the intended recipients. You can also download data in the widgets in the CSV, CSV-Summary, and PDF formats. You can sort data in the CreditConsumption Details table using single or multiple columns, and rearrange columns in the table as required.📝 Note
The report data is refreshed every two hours. The last updated time recorded for the report is displayed next to the report title. This timestamp follows the administrator’s time zone. However, the timestamps of the data fetched in the report follow the UTC time zone.
The following screenshot depicts a sample Credit Consumption report.
The following table lists the fields of the Credit Consumption report:
Section | Field | Description |
Credit Consumption Summary | Total Credits Consumed (a+b+c+d) | The count of credits consumed for all resources. It is a sum of all available (a+b+c+d) resources. |
Credits Consumed by Storage (a) | The count of credits consumed by Storage. It is denoted by (a). | |
Credits Consumed - Early Deletion of LTR data (b) | The count of credits consumed by early deletion of LTR data. It is denoted by (b). | |
Credits Consumed due to Early Deletion of Archive data (c) | The count of credits consumed by early deletion of Archive data. It is denoted by (c). | |
Credits Consumed due to Additional Restores of Archive Data (d) | The count of credits consumed due to additional restores of Archive data. It is denoted by (d). | |
Credits Savings Summary | Total LTR Savings | The count of LTR Savings. |
Total Archive Savings | The count of Archive Savings. | |
Credits Available | Credit Balance | The number of unutilized credits at the end of the day/month. The credit balance at the end of a day/month is the difference between the ending balance of the previous day/month and the credits consumed in the current day/month. When your credits exhaust, Druva displays the excess credits consumed (below zero) in red.
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Credit Term | The period for which the purchased credits are available for consumption. The scroll-window displays the start and end dates of purchased credits. | |
Monthly Credit Consumption | The total number of credits consumed in each month. The vertical bar graph depicts the Credit Consumed vs. Months chart. | |
Daily Credits Consumption Trend | The total number of daily credits consumed. This graph displays data for 3 months. | |
Credit Consumption Details | Date + Time | The last day of the month and time for which the credits consumed are displayed. |
Total credits consumed | The total number of credits consumed in that month. | |
Start Balance | The starting credit amount available for consumption during the current credit term. | |
End Balance | The ending credit amount available after consumption of the current credit term. | |
% Credits Used | The percentage of credits consumed in a given month out of the total start credit balance of that particular month. | |
Credits consumed due to early deletion of LTR data | Credits consumed based on the data storage on the Cloud. | |
Credits consumed due to early deletion of Archive data | Credits that were consumed as part of the early deletion of Archive data. | |
Credits consumed due to additional restores of Archive data | Credits that were consumed as part of the data restored beyond the free restore capacity. | |
Archive Savings (Credits) | Credits saved because of the Archive storage tier. | |
LTR Savings (Credits) | Credits saved because of long-term retention. |
Actions
The following table lists the actions that you can perform on the Credit Consumption Report page.
Action | Description |
Add filter | Creates filters to display credit consumption data based on the filter’s selection. |
Sort data | Sorts data in the Credit Consumption Details table using one or more columns. |
Rearrange columns | Changes the order of the columns in the Credit Consumption Details table. |
Add Filter
You can apply filters to the report to fetch details as per your requirements. You can view the generated report, download it, or send it through an email to the intended recipients.
Procedure
On the Credit Consumption reportpage, click the filter icon.
The Filters widget appears. By default, the Filters widget displays credits consumed by organizations in the last three months. You can define multiple filters based on your requirements. Druva will fetch report data based on the fields’ selection. Click the delete icon to remove filters.Click Add Filter.
On the Filter dialog, select a field or type the field name in the Column box, and use the filter options to create a combination of filters, and click Apply.
The report page now displays data specific to the filter created. Similarly, you can further create more filters and apply them to display other activity details.
For example, to fetch credit consumption details for April 2021, click Month in Column on the Filters dialog, and select April 2021 as shown in the following screenshot:
Click Apply.
The report now displays credit consumption data for April 2021.
Sort data
Use the sort options to sort the report data in a single or multiple columns in an ascending or descending order.
Single-column Sort
Click the Sortdisabled icon to sort the data values in ascending or descending order.
Click the Sortenabled icon to disable the sorting option.
Multiple-column Sort
The Apply Multiple-column Sort option allows you to sort report data using more than one column. The report data displays based on the order of columns selected. For example, you may want to fetch details of the credits consumed due to early deletion of LTR data during a specific month. To sort data, simply perform the following steps:
In the Credit Consumption Details table, go to the Date + Time column and click More More icon > ApplyMulti-column Sort.
Click the sort icon in the Credits consumed due to early deletion of LTR data column.
The Credit Consumption Details table displays report data sorted based on the selected order of columns.
Rearrange columns
You can change the order of the columns in the Credit Consumption Details table, Simply drag a column and drop it to the required position within the table.