Creating a Cloudera Observability cost center

This topic describes the steps for creating a Cloudera Observability cost center. Cost centers separate costs across user or pool usage and track their workload resource consumption costs. They can be divided and/or grouped into members associated with a specific organization or group to help you assign actual consumption charges to a user’s department.

Describes how to create a Cloudera Observability cost center.

Verify that you are logged in to the Cloudera Observability on premises web UI.
1. In the URL field of a supported web browser, enter the Cloudera Observability on premises URL that you were given by your system administrator and press Enter.
2. When the Cloudera Observability on premises Log in page opens, enter your Cloudera Observability on premises user name and password access credentials.
3. Click Log in.
  The Cloudera Observability on premises landing page opens.
From the Cloudera Observability Main navigation panel, select Financial Governance > Cost Centers.
To create a new cost center, do the following:
1. Click Create Cost Center.
  The Create Cost Center page opens.
2. In the Name field, enter a unique name for your cost center.
3. In the Description field, provide a description for the cost center.
4. From the Environment Selection section, click inside its text field to display a hierarchical list of your environments and their clusters.
  1. From the hierarchical list, locate the cluster in which your jobs or queries run and select its check box.
    The cluster and its parent service are also highlighted, and the cluster's name is populated in the Environment Selection text field.
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    For multiple clusters within an environment or an environment's service, such as a Data Warehouse, you must select the check box for each of the clusters you require.
5. Continue to locate and add more clusters and their environments.
6. Depending on the chargeback usage criterion option you selected when you configured your Chargeback settings, do one of the following:
  - If you selected Pools, click inside the Add Pools field and then select either one or multiple resource pools, or select All (denoted as a star *), which highlights all the resource pools associated with the selected cluster.
    The Add Pools field is populated with the selected pools.
  - If you selected Users, click inside the Add Users field and then select either one or multiple users, or select All (denoted as a star *), which highlights all the users associated with the selected cluster.
    The Add Users field is populated with the selected users.
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  Only those pools or users that are associated with the environment's cluster that you previously selected in the Environment Selection field are listed.
7. Click Create.
  The Cloudera Chargeback page opens displaying a Success message, which denotes that the cost center was successfully created, and your new cost center is listed under the Cost Centers column.
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  Until data is available from a job run, within the clusters you selected, the costs and resource usage will not display. Zero cost and resource usage values for the cost center denote that no charges have been incurred. If this continues after a job has run, check that the correct time-period is displayed.
Now that you have created a cost center you can now view the costs and resource usage associated with your cost center.
To edit an existing cost center, do the following:
1. In the Cost Centers page, locate and select the cost center that requires changes.
2. From the Actions list, select Edit.
  The Cost Center details page opens.
3. Make your changes.
4. Click Update.
To delete an existing cost center, do the following:
1. In the Cost Centers page, locate and select the cost center that requires deletion.
2. From the Actions list, select Delete.
  A confirmation message appears confirming the deletion.
3. Click OK.
The cost center is deleted and removed from the environment's cost center list and all the user and pool costs associated with the cost center are moved into the Uncategorized section.