Gathering insights on your spending

Get insights into the usage of your enterprise members.

Who can use this feature?

The enhanced billing platform is available to all enterprise accounts, and organizations owned by enterprise accounts, created after June 2, 2024. Enterprises that participated in the beta program also have access to the enhanced billing platform.

As an enterprise owner or billing manager you can view and download your enterprise's usage. As an organization owner, you can view and download usage for the organizations you manage

In this article

The enhanced billing platform provides you with the tools to:

  • Get insights into the usage of your enterprise members to understand how your resources are being used.
  • Generate reports on the usage of your enterprise members to import into your own tools for visualization and analysis.

Viewing usage

You can view the usage of your enterprise members and download the usage data for further analysis.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises.

  2. In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view.

  3. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Billing & Licensing.

  4. Click Usage.

  5. To view usage for a specific cost center, click Metered usage (w/o cost centers) , then select a cost center.

  6. To search or filter the graph, click the search bar. When you click the search bar, you will see a list of suggested filters.

  7. To further filter the graph, use the dropdown menus.

    • To see the usage by group, select Group, then click a group.
    • To filter by time, select Time Frame, then click a time period.
    • Optionally, to view the monthly budget and actual usage per day, select Group: None and Time Frame: Current Month.

    Below the graph, you can see a more granular overview of the usage. Click the arrow next to a specific date to see a nested table with usage per SKU, units, price/unit, and actual usage.

    Note

    The usage graph is configured to represent the start of the month to the end of the month, not your specific billing period.

  8. To request a CSV usage report, select Get usage report in the upper-right corner of the page.

Viewing license usage

You can view the license usage of your enterprise members and download the usage data for further analysis. The following license types are available:

  • User
  • GitHub Advanced Security
  • GitHub Enterprise

You can also view your active GitHub Enterprise instances and users.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises.

  2. In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view.

  3. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Billing & Licensing.

  4. Click Licensing.

  5. To download a CSV report of the license usage, click to the right of the usage you want to download, then click CSV report.

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