Skip to main content
Tag Explorer is available on Professional, Business and Enterprise.

​
Overview

Tag Explorer shows a cloud account’s spend by tag. Pick a key such as env and you see what env=production, env=staging and every other value cost, plus what has no value at all. On GCP, tags are called labels and work the same way. It works one account and one tag key at a time. To roll a team’s tagged spend up across clouds, use Ownership.

​
Using it

  1. Pick an account in the top navigation.
  2. Choose a date range: last 7 days, last 30 days, this month, last month, or custom.
  3. Click a tag key in the left panel. CostOptix loads the cost of each value.
  4. Click a value to see the resources tagged with it: name, ID, type, location and, on Azure, resource group. Search, filter and page through large lists.
For each key you see: Both the breakdown and the resource list export to CSV.

​
Untagged spend

Untagged spend is shown as its own row, not hidden. It is the fastest way to find resources nobody can be held accountable for.

​
Where the data comes from

Keys load when you open the page. The cost of a key is only fetched when you click it, so the page stays fast.
On AWS, a tag key only appears after you activate it as a cost allocation tag in the billing console. See the AWS guide. Azure and GCP need no extra setup.
  • Tag budgets track spend for a tag combination against a limit.
  • Ownership lets teams claim spend by tag value across accounts.