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OVHcloud bills monthly across every product, so spend is attributed per bill line item with Public Cloud usage carried per project. CostGraph reads OVHcloud as FOCUS 1.2 records at a grain of bill line item.

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Choose how the data reaches us

CostGraph pulls it

You supply read-only credentials and we call OVHcloud once a day. Nothing to run.

You push it

You send us FOCUS records over the API. Credentials never leave your infrastructure.

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Before you begin

  • In the OVHcloud Control Panel, go to Identity, Security & Operations > Identities > Service account and click Add a service account. Name it, describe it, and click Create.
  • Copy both values from the confirmation window. The service account name is the client id and the password is the client secret. OVHcloud displays the secret only at creation and can’t retrieve or regenerate it, so a lost secret means a new service account.
  • Attach an IAM policy to the service account under Identity, Security & Operations > Identities > Policies. The following table lists what CostGraph calls. OVHcloud’s managed Global billingAccount permission group covers the billing side across every product.
The client id prefix selects the API region and must match the region your account lives in: EU., CA., or US.. A client id from another region fails with invalid_client. The API console shows the IAM action each route needs on its IAM actions line. For the full walkthrough, see OVHcloud’s service account guide.

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Let CostGraph pull

  1. Open Settings > Integrations and pick OVHcloud.
  2. Name the connection and pick the tenant these charges belong to.
  3. Enter the client id and client secret. Add a Public Cloud project id to scope the running month to one project, or leave it empty for every project the service account reads.
  4. Select Connect.
CostGraph verifies the credentials with a short fetch before saving, so a wrong value or a missing permission fails while you are still on the form. An account with no recent invoice still connects, because CostGraph reads the billing account from /me.
Credentials are encrypted at rest and used only to read billing data. Revoke them in OVHcloud at any time and the connection stops; nothing else is affected.

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Push it yourself

Send the charges to CostGraph as FOCUS records instead. Push FOCUS data covers the connection id, the focus:write key, and the request shape.

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Run the exporter

Rather than build that request yourself, run our exporter. It reads OVHcloud on a schedule and pushes the records for you, wherever you want to run it: a container, a Kubernetes CronJob, or a binary on a machine you already have.
Your OVHcloud credential stays where you put it, and only the finished FOCUS records reach CostGraph. Run the exporter covers the three ways to run it and the variables it reads.

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What CostGraph does with it

Records land as raw billing rows, are normalised into line items, and roll up into daily cost. From there OVHcloud spend appears in Cost Overview and in anomaly detection alongside every other provider.