Cost Explorer

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Overview

The Cloud Cost Explorer provides an interactive, query-based interface for analyzing your cloud spending across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, SaaS providers, and Datadog costs. Unlike saved reports, the Explorer lets you perform ad-hoc analysis with flexible queries, filters, and visualizations to investigate cost trends, identify anomalies, and answer specific questions about your cloud spend.

Use the Cost Explorer to:

  • Build custom queries across multiple providers using tags, services, and filters
  • Investigate cost changes over time with flexible groupings and breakdowns
  • Download data, create dashboard widgets, or set up cost monitors

Query your cost data

  1. Navigate to Cloud Cost > Analyze > Explorer in Datadog.

  2. Build a search query using the query editor or dropdown filters:

    • Use the Provider dropdown to select one or more cloud providers
    • Click + Filter to add filters for services, tags, regions, teams, and other attributes
    • Type directly in the search bar for more advanced queries
    The Cloud Cost Explorer query builder showing provider selection, cost type filters, tag search, service filters, and group by options

  3. Group your cost data by clicking Group by and selecting dimensions like:

    • Provider name
    • Service name
    • Resource tags (such as team, env, project)
    • Region
    • Account ID

  4. Select a time range using the time picker to analyze costs over different periods (hour, day, week, month, or custom range).

Note: When querying costs across multiple providers, resource-level tags are not available. To access resource-specific tags, filter to a single provider in your query.

Refine your results

Click Refine Results to access advanced filtering options that help you focus on specific cost patterns.

The Refine Results panel shows filtering options including Usage Charges Only, Complete Days Only, Total Cost, Dollar Change, and Percent Change
Complete Days Only
Exclude the past two days of cost data, which may be incomplete. Use this option for accurate historical analysis.
Total Cost
Filter the data to view costs within a specific dollar range (for example, show only resources costing more than $1,000).
Dollar Change
Display only cost changes within a specified dollar change range (for example, show services with a $500+ increase).
Percent Change
Display only cost changes within a specified percentage range (for example, show resources with a 20%+ cost increase).

Change data views

The Cost Explorer displays your cost data as a timeseries graph with a table breakdown. You can change how the graph displays data by selecting from the following views:

  • Costs ($): View total costs in dollars over time
  • Change trends (%): View cost changes as percentage increases or decreases
  • Change trends ($): View cost changes in dollar amounts
Dropdown menu showing three view options: Costs in $, Change trends in %, and Change trends in $

Switch between these views to identify whether you’re tracking absolute costs or investigating cost variations.

Table display options

Below the graph, the table displays costs broken down by your selected grouping (such as provider, service name, or tags). You can customize how this data is displayed.

Table display options showing Summary and Breakdown view modes, column visibility toggles, and Top changes only filter

View modes

  • Summary: View aggregated costs across all time periods for a high-level overview
  • Breakdown: See costs broken down by time period (daily, weekly, or monthly depending on your selected time range)

Filters

  • Top changes only: Enable this checkbox to filter the table and show only the resources or services with the largest cost increases or decreases

Column visibility

Show or hide columns in the table to focus on the metrics that matter:

  • Total: Total aggregated costs for each resource or service
  • Dollar change trends: Cost changes in dollar amounts over time
  • Change trends: Percentage-based cost changes over time

Export and share

After analyzing costs in the Explorer, you can:

Export to csv

Download your cost data for offline analysis, reporting, or sharing with stakeholders. Click the Export button and select Download as CSV.

Create a dashboard widget

Save your current query as a dashboard widget to monitor costs alongside other metrics:

  1. Click Export and select Export to Dashboard
  2. Choose an existing dashboard or create a new one
  3. Customize the widget title and settings

Create a cost monitor

Set up alerts based on your current query to get notified when costs exceed thresholds or change unexpectedly:

  1. Click Export and select Create Monitor
  2. Configure alert conditions (for example, when costs exceed $10,000 or increase by 20%)
  3. Set notification channels (email, Slack, PagerDuty)

Learn more about Cloud Cost Monitors.

Share your query

Copy the URL from your browser to share your current cost query with team members. The URL includes all filters, groupings, and time range settings.

Further reading

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Create and save cost reportsDOCUMENTATION more more Query costs across multiple providersDOCUMENTATION more more Create cost monitorsDOCUMENTATION more more Learn about Cloud Cost ManagementDOCUMENTATION more more