Cost estimation
Available in version 0.6.0 and later. Currently, this feature is exclusively available on AWS.
You can get a preliminary cost estimation before initiating a security scan with VMClarity. This helps you plan and budget your security assessments more effectively, ensuring that you have a clear understanding of the financial implications before taking action.
To start a new estimation, complete the following steps.
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Create a new resource called
ScanEstimation
in the API server. For example, if your POST’s body is the following JSON, it will estimate an SBOM scan on your workload with idi-123456789
.Use the same same
scanTemplate
in theScanEstimation
than in theScanConfiguration
.{ "assetIDs": ["i-123456789"], "state": { "state": "Pending" }, "scanTemplate": { "scope": "contains(assetInfo.tags, '{\"key\":\"scanestimation\",\"value\":\"test\"}')", "assetScanTemplate": { "scanFamiliesConfig": { "sbom": { "enabled": true } } } } }
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Retrieve the object from the
<apiserver IP address>:8888/scanEstimations
endpoint, and wait for the state to beDone
. ThetotalScanCost
of the summary property shows your scan’s cost in USD:{ "assetIDs":[ "d337bd07-b67f-4cf0-ac43-f147fce7d1b2" ], "assetScanEstimations":[ { "id":"23082244-0fb6-4aca-8a9b-02417dfc95f8" } ], "deleteAfter":"2023-10-08T17:33:52.512829081Z", "endTime":"2023-10-08T15:33:52.512829081Z", "id":"962e3a10-05fb-4c5d-a773-1198231f3103", "revision":5, "scanTemplate":{ "assetScanTemplate":{ "scanFamiliesConfig":{ "sbom":{ "enabled":true } } }, "scope":"contains(assetInfo.tags, '{\"key\":\"scanestimation\",\"value\":\"test\"}')" }, "startTime":"2023-10-08T15:33:37.513073573Z", "state":{ "state":"Done", "stateMessage":"1 succeeded, 0 failed out of 1 total asset scan estimations", "stateReason":"Success" }, "summary":{ "jobsCompleted":1, "jobsLeftToRun":0, "totalScanCost":0.0006148403, "totalScanSize":3, "totalScanTime":12 }, "ttlSecondsAfterFinished":7200 }