Subscriptions
The Subscriptions pages in SaaS show consolidated data for your SaaS subscriptions. Use these pages to gain visibility and to find cost optimization opportunities.
Description
The Subscriptions pages show consolidated data for all discovered and manually added subscription types in your SaaS estate, based on the discovery sources that you connect to and the billing information that you add. The Subscriptions page shows all usage metrics for your paid and free subscriptions. The Subscriptions cost page shows all costs related to your paid subscriptions. Select a subscription to view the users and optimization opportunities for that subscription.
Vendors often license and sell their SaaS applications using a subscription model. A subscription is a legally valid agreement with a vendor that entitles you to use a SaaS application for a specific period of time. Subscriptions can also be called SKUs, subscription plans, licenses, license plans, or entitlements, depending on the vendor. Subscriptions are usually billed regularly and renewed until cancelled. A vendor can offer subscriptions for single applications or for a combination of applications.
Family
Vendors often group their related applications and services. This is called family in SaaS. The Family page shows usage and cost metrics for the whole product family. Use this page for visibility and to find cost optimization opportunities for all related services across the product family.
Subscription management
Subscriptions are primarily added to the system through the discovery sources that you connect to, but you have to manually billing information, such as add cost, duration, and sometimes quantity. If you have subscription types that cannot be discovered, you can add them manually and also add users to them. For more information, see Manage SaaS subscriptions.
Characteristics
Consolidated data is presented in indicators, charts, insights, and tables. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference.
There are multiple filtering options on the pages, see Filters for more information.
Subscriptions
The Subscriptions page shows all usage metrics related to your subscriptions.
Type | Description |
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Indicators | The indicators show information for the current month:
Subscription types marked as Free are excluded from the indicators. |
Chart | The Subscriptions usage chart shows a monthly breakdown of subscription numbers for all types of user activity and unassigned subscriptions. Subscription types marked as Free are excluded from the chart. |
Table | The table lists all your SaaS subscription types, including subscriptions marked as Free, and their usage metrics in relevant applications. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |
Subscriptions cost
The Subscriptions cost page shows all costs related to your subscriptions.
Subscription types marked as Free are excluded from the indicators, chart, and table on this page.
Type | Description |
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Indicators | The indicators show cost information for the current month:
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Chart | The Subscriptions cost chart shows a monthly breakdown of costs for active users and subscriptions where application activity is not monitored, and the total potential savings. |
Table | The table lists all your SaaS subscription types and their relevant cost metrics. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |
Subscription
The individual subscription page shows the Insights tab with optimization opportunities and users, and the Details tab, for the selected subscription type.
Tab | Type | Description |
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Insights | Indicators | The indicators show essential information about the subscription type:
Subscription types marked as Free show no indicators. |
Insights | Chart | The Subscription costs chart shows a monthly breakdown of costs for active users, cost for users where application activity is not monitored, and potential savings. Subscription types marked as Free show no chart. |
Insights | Insights | The Insights detail the optimization opportunities for the subscription type. Subscription types marked as Free show zero potential savings on the insights. Manually added subscription types are excluded from some insights. |
Insights | Table | The table lists all your consolidated SaaS users and their activity in relevant applications for the subscription type. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |
Details | Info | The tab show the details for the subscription type. For field descriptions, see Details. |
Family
Consolidated data is presented in indicators, charts, insights, and tables. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference.
There are multiple filtering options. The Subscriptions filter affect all tabs on the page. See Filters for more information. Manually added subscriptions are excluded from the Family views.
Subscriptions
The Subscriptions tab shows metrics related to all your subscriptions in the family.
Type | Description |
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Charts | The Subscription assignment chart shows a breakdown of quantity and costs based on subscription assignment in the last 30 days. The Subscription activity chart shows a breakdown of quantity and costs based on user activity in the last 30 days. The Subscription overview chart shows a monthly breakdown for four alternatives: costs or subscription quantity and user activity or subscription assignment. The chart shows data up to the previous day. Select the desired metric and time period for the chart. Subscription types marked as Free are excluded from the charts. |
Table | The table lists all your SaaS subscriptions in the family, including subscriptions marked as Free, and their assignment metrics and costs. For table descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |
Applications
The Applications tab shows metrics related to all your applications in the family.
Type | Description |
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Indicators | The indicators highlight essential information about your SaaS applications in the family:
Applications related to subscription types marked as Free are excluded from the indicators. |
Table | The table lists all your SaaS applications in the family. Applications related to subscription types marked as Free are excluded from the table. For column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |