---
title: "How To: Get the Daily Cost Report for Deployments"
slug: "how-to-get-the-daily-cost-report-for-deployments"
updated: 2026-06-15T20:24:14Z
published: 2026-06-15T20:24:14Z
canonical: "resources.realtheory.io/how-to-get-the-daily-cost-report-for-deployments"
---

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# How To: Get the Daily Cost Report for Deployments

After deploying the RealTheory collector to a Kubernetes cluster (See [Installing RealTheory in a Cluster](/v1/docs/installing-realtheory-in-a-cluster)), the cluster and its associated objects become available in the RealTheory API within minutes.

### Get Daily Cost Report

To get the Daily Cost report data for all deployments for a given cluster, call the method below on the [K8sReports](https://api-dev.realtheory.io/swagger/k8sreports/index.html) endpoint.

```
GET <endpoint>/theory/api/v1/k8sreports/dailycostreport/deployments/search/query/{query}/{offset}/{span}?index={index}&count={count}&order={order}&direction={direction}
```

where

- `{endpoint}` - is the URL of the RealTheory SaaS portal for your account.
- `{query}` - is a [query](/v1/docs/queries) used to limit the results to deployments for a given cluster.
- `{offset}` - is an offset from the current time, in a human readable format, that represents the start of the report data. Supported examples include '24h', '7d', '31d', '365d'
- `{span}` - a span of time, in a human readable format, to include in the report data. Supported examples include '24h', '7d', '31d', '365d'
- `{index}` - is the starting index of the rows to include in the list. This parameter is optional and defaults to 0 if not specified.
- `{count}` - is the maximum number of rows to return, up to a limit of 500. This parameter is optional and defaults to 100 if not specified.
- `{order}` - is a string containing the name of the attribute to sort on. This parameter is optional. Default value is totalCost.
- `{direction}` - is a number that controls the direction of the sort. A value equal to or greater than 0 indicates ascending order; a value less than 0 indicates descending order. This parameter is optional and defaults to -1 if not specified.

**Note:**

- All calls to RealTheory APIs must be authenticated and authorized. See [Authentication](/v1/docs/authentication) for more details.
- To retrieve all rows, increment the `{index}` by the `{count}` on each subsequent call until a response returns fewer rows than the `{count}` requested. See [Paging](/v1/docs/paging) for more details on how to page through all results.

#### Example

```
GET myendpoint.realtheory.io/theory/api/v1/k8sreports/dailycostreport/deployments/search/query/metadata.name=my-deployment/31d/31d?index=0&count=50&order=totalCost&direction=-1
```

which returns the first 50 rows for the Daily Cost report for the last 31 days, listing only the deployments named `my-deployment`, sorted by deployments with the highest total cost to the lowest total cost.

#### Output

Returns an array of [DeploymentItem](/v1/docs/k8sreportsdailycostdeploymentitem) objects.

```
[
  {
    "id": "59f005f9-8e36-4e4e-a346-c140c6341838",
    "metadata": {
      "id": "59f005f9-8e36-4e4e-a346-c140c6341838",
      "name": "my-deployment",
      "clusterId": "8ca6aa4c-8c7d-9fb9-c751-3e038f90d283",
      "clusterName": "realtheory-cluster-01",
      "customResourceDefinitionId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "customResourceDefinitionName": "",
      "namespaceId": "d61ccb51-0c9e-40b7-9730-4db1223ab3c6",
      "namespaceName": "realtheory-example",
      "customResourceId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "customResourceName": "",
      "timestamp": "2024-03-08T00:30:27.1391919Z"
    },
    "totalCost": 9.97616063,
    "costs": [
      {
        "total": 0.33017443,
        "cpuUtilization": 3.0416667,
        "memoryUtilization": 77.93017,
        "utilization": 40.485832,
        "efficiency": 12.0275,
        "timestamp": "2024-02-06T00:00:00Z"
      },
      {
        "total": 0.31641716,
        "cpuUtilization": 3.0434783,
        "memoryUtilization": 81.07564,
        "utilization": 42.06,
        "efficiency": 12.406957,
        "timestamp": "2024-02-07T00:00:00Z"
      },
      {
        "total": 0.31643172,
        "cpuUtilization": 3.0289855,
        "memoryUtilization": 81.49785,
        "utilization": 42.263042,
        "efficiency": 12.444782,
        "timestamp": "2024-02-08T00:00:00Z"
      },
      ...
    ],
    "clusterName": "realtheory-cluster-01",
    "namespaceName": "realtheory-example",
    "deploymentName": "my-deployment",
    "accountName": "RealTheory,Inc.",
    "accountOwner": "Joe.Bloggs"
  },
  ...
]
```

**Note:** Content has been omitted from the JSON response above for brevity.