Runcost

Resource

Type
string
Required
Yes, on every row
Added in
FOCUS 1.0
Contract name
resource_name
Updated

FOCUS column

ResourceName

The display name of the resource, as given by the person who created it, distinct from the provider-assigned id. Names are what engineers recognize and what tagging conventions often encode, but they are not unique, so grouping is done on the id and the name is shown alongside.

Example

A virtual machine created as “payments-api-prod-01” carries that name here and its provider resource id in ResourceId.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds ResourceName in each format the platform ingests, and the transform applied. A format with no row does not carry the column; the value is then absent rather than guessed.

ExportSource columnTransform
AWS Data Exports, FOCUS
ResourceName
as is
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
ResourceName
as is
Azure Cost Details (actual cost)
ResourceName
as is
Azure Cost Details (amortized cost)
ResourceName
as is
Google Cloud detailed billing export
resource.global_name
as is

How Runcost uses it

Runcost shows resource names in the drill-down and in anomaly alerts so the team receiving an alert recognizes the resource at once.

Related columns

About this reference

Generated from the column contract and provider rules that Runcost runs, and written by Faisal Saleem, Founder. The normative definitions are in the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS specification at focus.finops.org.

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Runcost ingests AWS, Azure and Google Cloud exports into this contract and produces statements, forecasts and alerts from it.

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