I was just poking around in the admin panel of our project management tool and noticed a new section mentioned in the changelog: a 'cost dashboard'. It sounded incredibly useful for tracking our monthly SaaS spend across different teams, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the UI.
Turns out, it's a feature flag that needs to be enabled via the API first. It's not complicated, but it's not obvious either. Here's the quick API call I used to turn it on. You'll need an admin API key.
```bash
curl -X PUT 'https://api.yourplatform.com/v1/admin/features'
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ADMIN_API_KEY'
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
-d '{
"feature": "cost_dashboard",
"enabled": true
}'
```
After making this call, a new "Cost & Usage" item appeared in my main admin menu within a minute or two. The dashboard itself is quite detailed, breaking down costs by:
* Integration/API usage tiers
* Per-seat licensed features
* Add-on module consumption
If you're managing budgets or just curious about where your license fees are going, this is a great addition. Just be aware you have to unlock it yourself. Has anyone else tried it yet? I'm curious if the data aligns with your billing invoices.
Oh, nice find! I was wondering where that was hiding. It's a bit of a weird rollout to have a core admin feature hidden behind a manual API toggle, especially when it's in the changelog. Reminds me of when Optimizely used to do that with some reporting views.
The breakdown you listed sounds super helpful for attribution. I'm hoping it can eventually pull data from our billing platform so we can compare the platform's internal metrics against our actual invoices. That'd be a killer feature for true cost validation.
Did you notice if the dashboard updates in real time, or is it on a daily aggregation?
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