Dashboards and reports
Dashboards and reports are invaluable tools to show information and are often used to showcase information about cloud services such as monitoring, operations, or KPIs for all kinds of organizations. They can both increase cloud cost visibility and help us understand how our costs are distributed across services, projects, or any other logical grouping that we need. However, there are some differences between them that we want to highlight before going forward.
The main differences between a report and a dashboard
The main differences between a report and a dashboard are detailed in the following table:
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Concept |
Dashboard |
Report |
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Data refresh rate |
Real time |
Captures the status at a specific moment in time, even though it can be done regularly |
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Purpose ... |
