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Display Business Metrics Together With Costs Data

To better understand the trend of your cloud costs, it can be very helpful to check business metrics at the same time. For example, an increase of some cloud costs may be caused by the larger number of active users, which justify the cost increase.

As a beta feature, InfraWallet supports fetching metrics from different providers (Datadog and GrafanaCloud are supported for now) and then show such metrics as line charts on the same cost graph. Here is an example of how it looks:

business-metrics

Configure Metric Providers

Datadog

InfraWallet uses Datadog's Query timeseries points API to fetch metric points. Before jumping into the app-config.yaml, you need to create an API key and an application key for InfraWallet, see the official documentations here. If the application key is scoped, it needs to have the timeseries_query scope.

The configuration for a Datadog metric provider looks like the following:

backend:
  infraWallet:
    metricProviders:
      datadog:
        # it is possible to have multiple datadog metric providers
        - name: <unique_name_of_this_provider>
          apiKey: <the_created_api_key>
          applicationKey: <the_created_app_key>
          ddSite: https://api.datadoghq.eu # see alternatives in https://docs.datadoghq.com/getting_started/site/#access-the-datadog-site

GrafanaCloud

InfraWallet uses GrafanaCloud's Query a data source API to fetch metric points. In order to connect your GrafanaCloud organization, you need to create a service account and a token. The documentation can be found here. After creating the service account token, add the following part into the configuration:

backend:
  infraWallet:
    metricProviders:
      grafanacloud:
        # it is possible to have multiple GrafanaCloud metric providers
        - name: <unique_name_of_this_provider>
          url: <link_to_the_site> # e.g., https://foo.grafana.net
          datasourceUid: <uid_of_the_target_datasource>
          token: <service_account_token>

Configure Metrics

Visit /infrawallet/default/settings page to configure metrics.

business-metric-settings

Notes

For Datadog, because InfraWallet only has daily or monthly granularities for costs, it is recommended to add a rollup function to each query. Regarding the aggregation interval, IW_INTERVAL can be used as a placeholder and later on, InfraWallet replaces it with the actual value (86400 or 2592000) based on the granularity. For example:

avg:system.cpu.idle{*}.rollup(avg, IW_INTERVAL)

Similar to Datadog, it is recommended to apply an aggregation_over_time() for each query in Grafana Cloud. For instance:

max(max_over_time(active_user[IW_INTERVAL]))