To complete this recipe, you will need to create a nOps trial account:
- Go to the nOps site at https://www.nops.io/ and click START FREE NOPS TRIAL.
- Enter your email address and click Get Started.
- Click Add AWS Account to associate your AWS account with your nOps account.
- Use the nOps setup wizard to automate the install process.
Go to the nOps help site if you get stuck during the install process: https://help.nops.io/.
- You will be redirected to the AWS console. Review the CloudFormation summary, check the box to acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources, and click Create stack.
- Monitor the stack's creation until it is complete:
nOps CloudFormation stack
- Log in to your nOps account. At first, much of the reporting will be blank. Wait a few hours for nOps to run its checks and populate reporting. Then, you will see a screen similar to the following:
The nOps dashboard
- Take some time to explore the dashboard. It features the following widgets:
- A summary of your account activity
- Yesterday's spend by the top five services
- Month to date spend by the top five services
- Unused resources
- Underutilized resources
- Month-to-date top five most expensive resources
- Cost by user
- Cost trend
- Go to Reports from the main menu and select WAR Report. This report will grade your compliance with the Well-Architected Framework across a diverse set of categories:
The nOps WAR report
- Go to the Cost Control menu and select AWS Resources Cost. Select Spend by AWS Products to see how your costs are divided by product:
nOps spend by AWS products
Continue to explore nOps to learn about the wide variety of reports it offers.