Measure utilization before you commission another network dashboard
A polished egress chart on untagged transfers only accelerates the wrong debate.
Teams under pressure often skip attribution fields and jump to a new network cost board. Weeks later, platform and finance argue over different totals for the same region because every transfer still shares one opaque path.
Prefer feature and tenant tags over UI widget names. Keep environment out of the endpoint alias and in a property. Write allowed values the same day a new sync path ships—or the path becomes a free-form dump.
In a Network Utilization Audit we spend early days on the inventory, not on chart cosmetics. Dashboards get sharper only after the utilization map stops arguing with itself.