# PerfectScale Weekly Report

PerfectScale automatically sends a Weekly Report summarizing key metrics from the past week directly to your inbox. This report offers an overview of the largest changes across your account, helping you track and review past events. This feature ensures you stay on top of your Kubernetes changes, unlocking quick access to further details.

## Weekly Report content

### Weekly summary

The weekly summary provides high-level insights into the cost and waste of your Kubernetes environment running on PerfectScale. It highlights how these metrics have changed compared to the previous period, enabling you to quickly access key cost-related trends and proceed with further analysis with one click.

With this single view, you will clearly understand your clusters' weekly costs and pod waste, seeing exactly how they have increased or decreased compared to the previous period. Additionally, you can review the number of alerts generated and actions taken by Automation, helping you stay informed about recent events and maintain visibility into your clusters' performance and efficiency.

<figure><img src="/files/pmGniVEV3XQOhBv0QgaL" alt="" width="563"><figcaption><p>Weekly report summary</p></figcaption></figure>

Click the **`Open Overview`** button to access the PerfectScale app directly, where you can view more details and continue your analysis.

### Detailed metrics overview

In this section, PerfectScale collects important metrics to help you effortlessly evaluate key trends in your environment. These insights reveal data-driven optimization opportunities that could significantly enhance your Kubernetes efficiency while highlighting areas that may require further improvement.

It includes **Cost by Namespace**, offering a daily breakdown of expenses associated with each namespace, highlighting the idle costs, and making it easier to understand and manage resource spending. The **Pod Waste by Namespace** metric identifies the cost of unused resources for each workload, helping to pinpoint inefficiencies. In the **Most Wasteful Workloads** section, you will find the workloads that waste the most resources, highlighting significant optimization opportunities. Additionally, **Top New Alerts Observed This Week** summarizes the latest and most critical alerts, helping to identify and prioritize areas needing immediate attention.

## How to get the Weekly Report

Users with the [**WeeklyReportReceiver role**](/administration/rbac-or-roles-and-permissions.md) automatically receive the Weekly Report at the email address specified when their account was created.&#x20;

A user with **Admin** permissions can manage this role in the **User Management** section. To access it, click the **Account** **button** in the bottom-left corner, then go to **Organization Settings → Users**.&#x20;

From there, you can invite a new user and assign the **WeeklyReportReceiver** role, or grant this role to an existing user by selecting **Edit roles** from the menu next to their name.

<figure><img src="/files/Mvd9AlONuiV4RlC6xNHu" alt=""><figcaption><p>WeeklyReportReceiver role</p></figcaption></figure>


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