Getting Started
Property Glossary
Understand what properties mean in Pelanor, and the scope they apply to (vendor-agnostic or vendor-specific)
| Display Name | Description | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| ARN | Amazon-wide resource identifier for any AWS object. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Athena Query | Canonical form of similar SQL issued in Amazon Athena. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Athena Table | Logical table definition in Athena over data in S3. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Athena User | IAM principal that ran the Athena query. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Athena Workgroup | Named execution context controlling Athena settings. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Availability Zone | Individual data-centre within a cloud region. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| AWS Product Name | Marketing name of the AWS service generating the cost line. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Azure Billing Profile Name | Friendly name for an Azure billing profile. | vendor specific (Azure) |
| Azure Customer Name | Customer / tenant label recorded in Azure billing. | vendor specific (Azure) |
| Azure Resource Group Name | User-defined container that holds related Azure resources. | vendor specific (Azure) |
| BigQuery Dataset | Container that organises tables in Google BigQuery. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| BigQuery Job Type | Operation type executed in BigQuery (Query, Load, etc.). | vendor specific (GCP) |
| BigQuery Query | Normalised SQL group executed in BigQuery. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| BigQuery Table | Table object in a BigQuery dataset. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| BigQuery User | Account that ran a BigQuery job. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| Billing Account | Account responsible for paying the invoice. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Bucket Path | Object-key prefix inside an S3 bucket. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| CloudFront Distribution ID | Unique ID for an Amazon CloudFront distribution. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| CloudFront Object Path | Path portion of a CloudFront request URI. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| CloudFront Origin ID | Internal origin identifier on the distribution. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| CloudFront URI (first segment) | First folder level in the CloudFront URI. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| CloudFront URI (second segment) | Second folder level in the CloudFront URI. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| CloudFront URI (third segment) | Third folder level in the CloudFront URI. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| The file extension of an object served through a CloudFront distribution | File extension parsed from a CloudFront request (e.g. .jpg). | vendor specific (AWS) |
| CloudSQL Database | Managed MySQL/PostgreSQL instance in Google Cloud SQL. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| CloudSQL Database Version | Engine and version string for the Cloud SQL instance. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| CloudSQL Instance Type | Role of the Cloud SQL node (primary, replica…). | vendor specific (GCP) |
| CloudSQL Master Instance | Name of the primary Cloud SQL instance. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| CloudSQL Query | Normalised SQL group executed on Cloud SQL. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| Database Name | User-defined logical database within a service. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Databricks Cluster ID | UUID of a Databricks compute cluster. | vendor specific (Databricks) |
| Databricks Cluster Name | Human-readable Databricks cluster label. | vendor specific (Databricks) |
| Databricks Job Name | Named Databricks job (scheduled or triggered). | vendor specific (Databricks) |
| Databricks Task Name | Individual task within a Databricks job. | vendor specific (Databricks) |
| Databricks Workspace | Tenant-level workspace identifier in Databricks. | vendor specific (Databricks) |
| Domain name | Fully-qualified domain used by the resource. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Dynamo DB Table Class | Storage tier for a DynamoDB table. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Dynamo DB Table Status | Lifecycle state of the DynamoDB table. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| EBS Multi-Attach Enabled | Flag showing if an EBS volume supports multi-attach. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| EC2 Instance ID | Unique identifier for an Amazon EC2 VM. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| ECS Cluster | Logical grouping of tasks/services in Amazon ECS. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| ECS Launch Type | Execution mode for ECS tasks (Fargate, EC2, External). | vendor specific (AWS) |
| ECS Service | Scheduler maintaining tasks in ECS. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| ECS Started By | Principal that launched the ECS task. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| ECS Task Definition | Versioned blueprint describing containers for ECS. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| EMR Cluster ID | Identifier for an Amazon EMR cluster. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| EMR Cluster Name | Friendly name of an EMR cluster. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| EMR Job Name | User-supplied name of a job running on EMR. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| EMR Job Status | Current state of the EMR job. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| EMR User Role | IAM role that submitted the EMR job. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Encrypted | Indicates whether data at rest is encrypted. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Entity Category | High-level function of the resource (Compute, Storage…). | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Entity Type | Granular, platform-neutral resource type. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| GCP Dataflow Pipeline Name | Named Google Cloud Dataflow pipeline. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| GCP Global Name | Fully-qualified resource string used by Google APIs. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| GCP Project ID | Immutable identifier for a GCP project. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| GCP Project Name | Human-readable display name of a GCP project. | vendor specific (GCP) |
| Glue Command Name | Script or command executed in a Glue job run. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Glue Job Description | Free-text description on the Glue job. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Glue Job Name | Logical job definition in AWS Glue. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Glue Job Status | Runtime state of a Glue job run. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Glue Script Location | S3 URI of the ETL script executed by Glue. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Glue Trigger | Schedule/event that launches a Glue job. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Glue User Name | Principal that owns or ran the Glue job. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Glue Worker Type | Worker sizing class for Glue. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| GPU Cost | Portion of charge attributable to GPU usage. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Has GPU | Boolean flag indicating GPU presence. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Instance Type | Full instance SKU (e.g. m5.large). | vendor specific (multi-cloud) |
| Instance Type Family | Instance family grouping similar SKUs (e.g. m5). | vendor specific (multi-cloud) |
| Is Global Group | Internal flag not shown to end-users. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Kubernetes Cluster | Kubernetes control plane hosting nodes and workloads. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Kubernetes Namespace | Namespaced partition providing isolation. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Kubernetes Workload | Workload object (Deployment, Job, etc.) in Kubernetes. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Kubernetes Workload Version | Immutable revision hash of a workload deployment. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Main Entity | Highest-level cost-carrying resource. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Main Entity Type | Function-based type of the main entity. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Metric Name | Name of a custom metric sent to cost engine. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Payment Kind | Pricing model: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, etc. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Query | Normalised representation of similar SQL statements. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Query Type | SQL verb category (SELECT, INSERT, etc.). | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| RDS Database | Managed database instance in Amazon RDS. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| RDS Query | Normalised SQL group executed on RDS. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| RDS Table | Table object inside an RDS database. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Cluster | Nodes running Amazon Redshift data warehouse. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Cluster Name | Human label of the Redshift cluster. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Cluster Public Access | Flag showing if Redshift is publicly routable. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Database | Logical database namespace in Redshift. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Enhanced VPC Routing | Whether Redshift routes traffic through VPC. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Maintenance track | Release channel for Redshift upgrades. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Query | Canonicalised SQL group executed on Redshift. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift Table | Table or view stored in Redshift. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Redshift User | Login executing Redshift queries. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Region | Geographic area hosting cloud resources. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Resource ID | Provider-assigned identifier for a resource. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Resource name | Human-readable name/tag of the resource. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Resource Type | Cross-provider resource classification. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| S3 Bucket | Named container for objects in Amazon S3. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| S3 Key (first segment) | Top-level pseudo-folder in an S3 key. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| S3 Key (second segment) | Second folder level in the S3 key. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| S3 Key (third segment) | Third folder level in the S3 key. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| S3 Key File Extension | File extension parsed from the S3 key. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| S3 Object Storage Class | Storage tier for an S3 object. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Savings Plan ID | AWS Savings Plan identifier covering committed spend. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Savings Plan Type | Scope of the Savings Plan (Compute, EC2). | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Schema Name | Logical schema grouping tables. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Service Name | Provider-specific product generating the charge. | vendor specific (multi-cloud) |
| Snowflake Account | Account locator for a Snowflake tenant. | vendor specific (Snowflake) |
| Snowflake Database | Named collection of schemas in Snowflake. | vendor specific (Snowflake) |
| Snowflake Query | Canonical form of similar SQL in Snowflake. | vendor specific (Snowflake) |
| Snowflake Schema | Namespace grouping tables/views in Snowflake. | vendor specific (Snowflake) |
| Snowflake Table | Table object stored in Snowflake. | vendor specific (Snowflake) |
| Snowflake User | Login executing Snowflake statements. | vendor specific (Snowflake) |
| Snowflake Warehouse Name | Virtual warehouse providing compute for Snowflake queries. | vendor specific (Snowflake) |
| Status | Generic runtime status (Running, Failed, etc.). | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Subaccount | Billing sub-unit (OU, subscription, project). | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Subaccount Name | Friendly label of the subaccount. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Table Name | User-given table identifier inside a database. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Top-level Domain | Highest DNS hierarchy level (e.g. .com). | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Usage Category | Broad cost bucket (Compute, Storage, Networking…). | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Usage Subcategory | Detailed subdivision within a usage category. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Usage Type | Raw usage code from the provider billing record. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| User | Principal (human or service) executing database queries. | vendor agnostic (FOCUS) |
| Vendor | Cloud provider that generated the line item. | vendor specific (multi-cloud) |
| Volume Attachment Status | Whether an EBS volume is attached to an EC2 instance. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Volume Snapshot ID | Snapshot from which the EBS volume was created. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Volume State | Lifecycle state of an EBS volume. | vendor specific (AWS) |
| Volume Type | EBS volume class (gp3, io1, etc.). | vendor specific (AWS) |