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.

1. 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 id i-123456789.

   Use the same same scanTemplate in the ScanEstimation than in the ScanConfiguration.

   {
     "assetIDs": ["i-123456789"],
     "state": {
       "state": "Pending"
     },
     "scanTemplate": {
       "scope": "contains(assetInfo.tags, '{\"key\":\"scanestimation\",\"value\":\"test\"}')",
       "assetScanTemplate": {
         "scanFamiliesConfig": {
           "sbom": {
             "enabled": true
           }
         }
       }
     }
   }
   

2. Retrieve the object from the <apiserver IP address>:8888/scanEstimations endpoint, and wait for the state to be Done. The totalScanCost 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
   }