You can publish tag-based additional cost as individual metrics using VMware Aria Operations .To publish tag-based additional costs as individual metrics, you must first activate the Tag based Costing Metrics at the Global Settings level. If you activate the tag-based costing metrics at a VM level, then each of the tag-based cost is considered as an independent instance metric on the virtual machine.
How to Activate Tag Based Costing Metrics
From the left menu, click , and then click Cost/Price and navigate to the Tag based Costing Metrics. Move the toggle button to the right to activate the Tag based costing metrics. Add a VM tag or custom properties based entries in Additional Cost Drivers. To know how to set the Additional Cost at a VM level, see Editing Additional Costs.
After you assign the cost for VMs with tags or custom properties, you must run the Cost Calculation and verify whether the additional cost is reflected in the costing metrics. To verify whether the tag-based cost metrics update is reflected in your cost, run the cost calculation and check the tag-based cost metrics. The additional cost metrics can be viewed from the following location, only for virtual machines which have the tags mentioned in the Additional Cost Driver: .
