FOCUS column
SkuMeter
The provider’s name for the meter that measured the charge, a short description of what was counted for this SKU. Providers with meter-based billing, notably Azure, expose it directly; on other providers it corresponds to the usage type or SKU description.
Example
An Azure row carries the meter name “D4s v5”; a Google Cloud row carries the SKU description “N2 Instance Core running in London”.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds SkuMeter 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.
| Export | Source column | Transform |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Data Exports, FOCUS | SkuMeter | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | SkuMeter | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | MeterName | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | MeterName | as is |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | sku.description | as is |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost shows the meter in the drill-down and uses it, with the service name, to derive the service category for exports that lack one.
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.