# Part 2: Visualization

## What You Will Do

This is Part 2 of a multi-part, self-paced quick start exercise. In this part, you will visualize cost metrics for the cluster that has been set up with cost management.

**Important**  
Cost metrics are collected hourly from the cluster. A wait time of 1 hour is needed for the data to reflect in the dashboard after cost management configuration.

## Visualize Cost Metrics

- Navigate to Home -> Dashboards -> Cost Management
- By default, Cost Overview for **All** will be displayed. You can select specific projects and/or clusters by navigating to the respective tabs
- You can view the summary of total, utilized, idle and unallocated costs along with cost efficiency
- The data is aggregated for a specific time window selected (24 hours/7 days/14 days/30 days)

### Cost Trend

- Based on the time window selected, the cost trend for that time window is shown as a time series graph
- For details on granular contribution of costs, hover over the graph
- Costs for each cloud provider can also be viewed separately

### Top 5

- A summary of top 5 namespaces, top 5 clusters and top 5 applications are displayed by default
- Click on the ellipses at the top-right corner of each widget to view the complete list of namespaces/clusters/cards ordered by spend

### All tab

**All** tab is an aggregation of all costs in the organization (Across all projects, all clusters). Access to **All** tab is restricted only to Org Admins.

### Project Tab

Project tab is useful to aggregate costs across a project. The summary cards, cost trend and top 5 widgets show the aggregation of costs for the selected project.

### Cluster Tab

Cluster tab can be used to view costs for a specific cluster. The summary cards, cost trend and top 5 widgets show the aggregation of costs for the selected cluster.

## Recap

Congratulations! You have successfully visualized the cost metrics for the cluster provisioned with cost management. For more accurate cost computations (including negotiated pricing, SPOT instance pricing), [custom profile](https://docs.rafay.co/cost_management/cost_profiles/) needs to be created and deployed on the cluster.