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Cost Explorer gives you direct access to the raw billing export schema for a single cloud provider at a time — every native field from that provider's own detailed billing export, not Mavvrik's normalized cost categories used elsewhere in the platform.
Why this matters: every other Mavvrik dashboard normalizes cost data into common categories (Provider, Service, Location, Account) so different clouds can be compared side by side. That normalization is exactly what you lose when you need to answer a question specific to one provider's own billing model — like a GCP credit ID, an Azure VM SKU's exact properties, or a specific adjustment reason code. Cost Explorer is the escape hatch: it exposes the provider's billing export fields directly, unflattened, for the cases where the normalized view doesn't have the field you need.
This shows up differently depending on your role:
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FinOps engineers use this to investigate a specific line item or reconcile a Mavvrik-reported number against the provider's own billing export.
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Finance/billing teams use it to pull provider-native fields (like GCP credit names or Azure charge types) that don't have a Mavvrik-normalized equivalent.
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Engineers debugging a cost anomaly use it to group by a very specific technical field — a resource's exact SKU properties, a project number, a billing account ID — that a general-purpose dashboard wouldn't surface.
Provider Selector
Cost Explorer only shows one provider's data at a time. Use the provider dropdown in the top-left corner to switch — the available options depend on which providers are onboarded with detailed billing export data (for example, Azure and GCP). Switching providers reloads the whole page: the Group By field, the Filters, and the data table all switch to that provider's own field set.
Cost Explorer Chart & Table
The page is built around a single chart and its underlying data table — there are no separate Key Metrics widgets like on other dashboards.
Chart Controls
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Period — the time range shown (e.g. Last 3 months).
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X-Axis — currently Date.
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Group By — the raw billing-export field to break costs down by. This list is provider-specific and can run to dozens of fields. For GCP it includes fields like
gcp_billing_account_id,gcp_cost,gcp_credits_amount,gcp_credits_name,gcp_location_region,gcp_price_effective_price,gcp_project_id,gcp_resource_global_name, and many more — essentially the full GCP BigQuery Billing Export schema. For Azure, Group By fields include things likeazure_AdditionalInfo(a raw JSON blob of VM/SKU properties for that charge). -
Display — how many top rows to show (e.g. Top 10).
You can also change the Chart Type, download the chart data as CSV, and expand to Full-Chart View using the icons above the chart.
Data Table
Below the chart, a table shows the selected Group By field's values as rows and each month in the period as columns, with a Total row and column. Because the Group By field is often a raw, highly specific value (like a full JSON blob of VM properties, or a project ID), rows can be long or numerous — an others row rolls up whatever falls outside the current Display limit.
Actions and Filters
Header Icons
Share
Click the Share icon to copy the link of the current page, including your active filters, so you can share it with other team members.
Bookmark
Click the Bookmark icon to save the current page's view, including your active filters, so you can return to it quickly later. You can access your saved bookmarks from your profile menu.
Subscription
Click the Subscription icon to set up a recurring email report of this page. See the Subscriptions page for full setup steps.
Screenshot
Click the Camera icon to take a screenshot of the current page and download it as a PDF file.
Cost Filter
Click the Filters icon to open the filter builder. Unlike other dashboards, Cost Explorer's filter isn't a fixed list of dimensions — click + Filter to add a filter row, then use its Select dropdown to choose any field from that provider's raw billing-export schema (the same list available in Group By) to filter on. Click Apply to run it, or Cancel to discard.
Cost Options
Choose a Cost Field — Actual or Amortized — and toggle Cost Options (Discount, Refund, Tax & Credit) to include or exclude those components. Note this page does not offer the Net Actual/Net Amortized cost fields available on some other dashboards.
Reload Option
Clears all filters and selections from the page, returning it to the default view.
Help
Click the "?" icon to open the Help Page Documentation for this page.
FAQs
Why does the Group By list look so different from other dashboards?
Cost Explorer groups by the selected provider's own raw billing-export fields, not Mavvrik's normalized categories — so the options are whatever that provider's detailed billing export actually contains, which differs significantly between providers (GCP's BigQuery Billing Export schema looks nothing like Azure's Cost Management export).
Can I compare two providers side by side here?
No — Cost Explorer shows one provider at a time, selected from the dropdown in the top-left. For a normalized, multi-provider comparison, use the Cost dashboard instead.
Why do some rows show raw JSON instead of a readable name?
Some provider fields (like Azure's AdditionalInfo) are themselves structured data — a JSON blob of properties like VM SKU, core count, and HA status — rather than a single flat value. Cost Explorer shows the field's raw value as-is.