Lesson 5: Showback Reporting
In this lesson we will explore the functionality of showback reporting as a FinOps personnel. As a FinOps user, review the showback report, view reports by all the projects or a specific project for budget vs spend amounts and further drill down by a specific project to either view by cost center or resource types such as virtual machines or clusters
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If you are continuing from the previous lesson of load balancer then,\
Click **Services**
Click **Reporting**
Click **Cost**
Click **Showback Report**
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By default **Showback Report** landing page displays Budget vs Actual Spend data for all the projects.\
Top section displays the **Cost Summary** and the bottom section displays **Top Spend by Projects** and **Top Spend by Resource Types**.
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Under **Showback Report**, Click on the **Showback Accoun**t drop down and select **Demo Test Showback** account
Notice and take few moments to review the displayed data
Click on **View All Spends** under each of the Top Spends section and review the data
Notice and click on the **Export** button to download the report for further integration
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End of Lesson 5