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Perspectives

Manage Perspectives

Introduction

In Mavvrik, the term 'perspective' refers to the ability to create custom views of your data based on various filters. You can use the perspective feature to focus on specific data points, such as data from a particular provider, billing account, usage account, location, or tags. This can be useful for organizing and analyzing your data in a way that is most meaningful to you.

Why this matters: a Perspective is a filter definition you build once and then reuse everywhere — as the scope for a Budget, the target of an Alert, or a saved view on a Cost dashboard — instead of rebuilding the same set of filters separately in each of those places. Define "AWS Production" as a Perspective once, and every feature that references it stays consistent if the underlying filter logic ever needs to change.

Steps to Create Perspectives

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Perspectives under Admin

Open the Perspectives page in Mavvrik
Open the Perspectives page in Mavvrik

  1. Click on Create Perspectives

  1. Enter Name, Description & Team

Enter perspective details
Enter perspective details


  1. Apply Basic or advanced filter

Basic: The Basic filter helps you focus on specific aspects of your RI Coverage, making it easier to analyze and understand the data.

Advanced: Advanced Perspective Filters allow you to refine the results using detailed criteria. You can add multiple filters by selecting criteria such as “Provider,” choosing an operator (for example, “IN”), and selecting values from the dropdown menus. You can apply or cancel your changes or select “Clear All” to reset the filters.

Note for Azure users: Reserved Instance and Savings Plan data doesn't display on the Reserved Instances and Savings Plans pages when a Perspective scoped to specific Azure usage accounts is applied. This isn't a limitation or a design choice — in Azure, RIs and Savings Plans are purchased and billed at the billing-account level, not the usage-account level, so there's no usage-account-scoped data to show once that filter is applied. AWS and GCP aren't affected by this. If you need Azure RI/SP data broken down by usage account, use the Coverage page instead, which reflects the applied Perspective correctly across all three providers.

Apply perspective filters
Apply perspective filters


  1. Click Create

  2. New Perspective is created and displayed as shown below. When you select the number of rows, you will be able to view that same quantity of rows on the page.

View the newly created perspective
View the newly created perspective

  1. If you want to check the Cost, go to the Cost Page

  1. Click on No Perspective & Select AWS Perspective

Apply a perspective on the Cost page
Apply a perspective on the Cost page

Steps to Edit Perspective

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Perspectives under Admin

Open the Perspectives page for editing
Open the Perspectives page for editing

  1. Click on the Edit icon

Edit a perspective
Edit a perspective

  1. Change filters

Change perspective filters
Change perspective filters


  1. Click on Update

Update Perspectives even when they are linked to Budgets, Alerts, or Cost Allocations. The platform displays a warning outlining potential impacts and allows users to confirm changes before proceeding.

Confirm updates to a linked perspective
Confirm updates to a linked perspective

Steps to Delete Perspective

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Perspectives under Admin

Open the Perspectives page for deletion
Open the Perspectives page for deletion

  1. Click on the Delete icon

  1. Click OK from the popup

  1. Perspective is deleted from the List

  1. Click on the Cancel or X icon to close the pop

Note : If the perspective is being used in cost allocations,alerts,budgets it cant be deleted

Clone Perspective

Clone an existing Perspective to quickly create a new one with the same setup already in place.
This is useful when you need a similar view for another team, business unit, environment, or customer use case.
Instead of rebuilding filters and structure from scratch, you can start with a copied version and make only the needed changes.
The cloned Perspective is independent, so updates to it do not affect the original.

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Perspectives under Admin

Open the Perspectives page for cloning
Open the Perspectives page for cloning

  1. Click on the clone icon (You can see same filtered options selected)

  2. Edit the required filters and create

Clone and configure a perspective
Clone and configure a perspective

FAQs

Can I delete a Perspective that's used in a Budget, Alert, or Cost Allocation?
No — a Perspective currently in use by any of those can't be deleted. You'd need to remove it from whatever's using it first.

If I update a Perspective's filters, does that change the Budgets or Alerts that use it?
Yes — updating a Perspective updates it everywhere it's referenced. The platform shows a warning outlining the potential impact before you confirm the change, so you can review what else will be affected first.