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title: "Resources"
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The Resources screen provides detailed reporting and cost exploration. Drill-throughs from resources links on many other screens will load this screen, prefiltered by the context from which you navigated, e.g. filtered by date, service, etc.

There is a familiar date range control at the top-right and these tiles at the top show totals for the resources in scope of the screen’s filtering:

![image-20250910-045636.png](media://3ea10bec-ed3e-42df-a76e-fe9617c91edd)

The **Possible monthly savings** tile (above) includes a link to the [Optimization Insights](https://certero.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CXCM/pages/108299180) screen.

A range of dropdowns provide filtering on common categorizations:

![image-20250910-050622.png](media://4dc38f44-71bf-4203-a9f1-c4a644eb9d0a)

The **Breakdown type **control allows you switch the chart and table between three views:

![image-20250910-051700.png](media://56b97956-658d-4be7-b394-6d826a53850e)

The **OpEx **view displays a bar chart with options for choosing the categorization (color-coding) of the bars of the chart and the time aggregation (for each bar) from daily, weekly or monthly:

![image-20250910-050926.png](media://673c1489-ce42-4c8c-a196-d7dec4f11fd0)

Under the chart, the table for this view has ungrouped rows for each resource, but the grouping can be changed:

![image-20250910-052619.png](media://13453e34-3ddd-42e8-9ac9-2c53e8c9bac5)

This view also has an option for exporting the table.

The **Resources** view allows you to categorize an area chart AND table by service, region, etc.:

![image-20250910-052933.png](media://85c6e5bd-9a65-4216-a292-d624d7622309)

The **Tags** view displays an area chart with a table grouped by resource tag keys. The **Actions **icon for the table rows allow you to filter and un-filter the chart on the tag key for the row:

![image-20250910-054521.png](media://96ad9f28-f924-4dcd-9344-0111de0fcb88)

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Mousing over a chart datapoint on the **Resources **screen will show a datapoint details tooltip, for example:

![image-20250910-054938.png](media://eb9b32f7-18b5-466e-bcc5-1845c01e0a20)

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The **Actions **menu at the top-right allows you to save, manage and recall **Perspectives**. Perspectives are a named combination of filters, breakdown type and categorization that you can save for later use; quickly applying a desired set of report conditions. [Cluster types](https://certero.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CXCM/pages/108299476) are explained in another section.

![image-20250910-053732.png](media://ffe42616-1905-47be-acf1-7dcf3a9e81d3)

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In the table for the **OpEx **breakdown type (where each row is a resource) some columns contain navigation links. Clicking on a resource name or OpEx column cost (following image) will take you to the **Resource Details** screen for the single resource.

![image-20250910-061747.png](media://af582140-f81d-4cdd-94d6-fff0e6229c9b)

The R**esource Details** screen has a range of pages:

![image-20250910-062352.png](media://f48a86bf-e289-437d-bb65-c7aae5c81801)

The **Details **page shows resource details and meta-data.

The **Constraints **page allows you to manage resource-level constraints and view constraints violation history. [Constraints](https://certero.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CXCM/pages/108299089) are explained in another section.

The **OpEx **page displays costs broken down by cost subcategories, giving visibility of the different sources of costs attributed to the resource, for example for compute, licensing or network traffic. The **OpEx** page also reveals granular cost data.

The **Optimization Insights** page shows [Optimization Insights](https://certero.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CXCM/pages/108299180) recommendations that the resource is currently in scope of, and those from which the resource has been dismissed (excluded). Using the **eye** icons, the resource can be excluded from, or re-included in, the displayed recommendation types.

For some resource types (e.g. instances), the **Monitoring **page shows usage metrics charts which are useful for validating usage-related optimisations:

![image-20250910-064323.png](media://f90964f9-7e89-43de-89ad-7bedaa2b4c3e)