The Usage Explorer dashboard provides a fast and convenient way to determine Cloud NGFW consumption for a tenant for Pay-as-You-Go (PAYG) and credit-based subscriptions (purchased using a contract). This information displays a daily consumption that includes insights on your average consumption and how it correlates with Cloud NGFW credits that are associated with the tenant.

To access the Usage Explorer:

The Usage Explorer includes options for displaying consumption over a period of time and allows you to download a CSV file to capture relevant data for future inspection. Daily consumption history is provided in a table that includes the following fields:

Period - Represents the time frame for the Cloud NGFW consumption.
Dimension - Used to identify billing for a Cloud NGFW. A dimension refers to an add-on (for example, Threat Prevention).
Consumed Units - The amount of the resource consumed by the tenant during the billing period. This field is relevant to the PAYG subscription model.
Consumed as Credits - The amount of the resource consumed by the tenant during the billing period. This field is relevant to the PAYG subscription model.
You can only filter on supported dimensions. The
Add filter
option does not currently work at this preview release.

Use the

Period

field to display consumption over a specified period of time. When using this option, consider that filtering consumption over longer periods of time could cause delays when displaying data:

Using the

Dimensions

field, you can alter the Usage Explorer display to show only those add-on dimensions that are part of your subscription. You can filter on all dimensions, or, select a dimension from the drop-down menu: