Ask Finn for proactive FinOps
Improve the ROI on your cloud spend and AI token usage.
CloudMonitor brings your Azure billing and AI token usage into one clear view, allocating every dollar and token to a cost group. Daily insights rank right-sizing, reservations, idle resources, hybrid licensing, and token economics. Ask Finn explains what changed, shows the evidence, and helps your team choose the next action. Once teams implement the recommendations, finance can redirect realized savings to priorities such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Fabric, or a new Azure workload.
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Certified software · Azure
FinOps Certified
Specialty Solution
ISO 27001 + 9001 + 42001
Certified
What CloudMonitor does
Four ways CloudMonitor moves FinOps work forward.
Move from visibility to investigation, optimization, and accountability using governed Azure billing data.
Full visibility
Drill from a $1.2M monthly invoice down to one VM, across every subscription, resource group, and cost group — each tied to the owner who can act.
Prioritized recommendations
Right-sizing, reservations, idle resources, storage tiers, hybrid licensing — ranked by dollar impact, not by alert count. See the $14k save, skip the $0.30 ones.
Ask Finn investigations
Ask why cost changed, when a budget will be crossed, or which savings deserve attention. Finn answers from governed CloudMonitor data and links the evidence.
Cost accountability
Allocate to cost groups built from tags, resource groups, or subscriptions. Showback, chargeback, RI splits, and shared-cost rules without a finance spreadsheet.
From signal to next action
Ask Finn turns cost questions into governed investigations.
CloudMonitor detects the signal. Ask Finn helps your team investigate it using the same cost groups, permissions, and Microsoft Fabric data behind your reports. Finn explains the evidence and suggests a next step; CloudMonitor remains read-only, and your team decides what happens next.
- Explain month-over-month cost changes and unexpected spikes
- Forecast when AI or Azure spend will cross budget
- Rank open savings by value, evidence, and caveats
What changed in July versus June, and what should I investigate next?
Start with three cost drivers. I have separated recurring growth from anomalies and unallocated spend, with links back to the supporting reports.
The platform
Aligned to every FinOps Domain.
Every report maps to a FinOps Foundation Domain and Capability — four Domains, twenty-two Capabilities — so practitioners already know the navigation. 78% of FinOps practices now report into the CTO/CIO organization (State of FinOps 2026).
Understand Usage and Cost
Allocation, reporting, anomalies — without a CSV in sight.
CloudMonitor ingests your Azure billing via FOCUS exports with scoped, read-only access. Pre-built reports cover every cost group, every tag, every owner.
- Allocate to cost groups, business units, projects, tags
- Reporting & analytics for finance, engineering, and execs
- Anomaly detection with Teams alerts in real time
- Shared-cost allocation across cost centers
Optimize Usage and Cost
Right-size, reserve, idle, tier — every saving surfaced.
The Optimization engine continuously scans your usage and proposes prioritized recommendations. Push each one to a Jira or ServiceNow ticket with the owner, evidence, and projected saving attached.
- Right-sizing across VMs, App Services, SQL, AKS
- Reserved instance and Savings Plan analysis
- Idle and orphaned resource discovery
- Hybrid licensing optimization
Manage the FinOps Practice
Governance, policy, education, and chargeback — built in.
Beyond reporting and recommendations, CloudMonitor gives you the tools to run a FinOps practice: role-based access, audit trails, ITSM integration, and chargeback workflows.
- Role-based access for finance, eng, and partners
- Audit trail for every cost-group, tag, and rule change
- Jira / ServiceNow / webhook integrations
- Chargeback / showback workflows
Cost by scope
Every scope of spend, one FOCUS model.
CloudMonitor normalizes your Azure billing to the FOCUS schema, then governs every scope your estate touches in the same cost groups: cloud, AI tokens, SaaS, licensing, and the data center.
AI & tokens
Value per token across Copilot, OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, and Azure OpenAI — with model-mix, cache, and batch savings ranked, not just spend reported.
SaaS
The third-party SaaS your teams buy on credit cards, governed in the same model.
Licensing
Azure Hybrid Benefit, BYOL, M365, and marketplace licenses, reviewed every month.
Data centers
Hybrid and on-prem footprint costed alongside cloud, in one allocation model.
Customer outcomes
Numbers our customers are willing to share.
46%
Clinic to Cloud reduced annual Azure spend
22%
Transport for NSW lowered data-lake OpEx
50%
XContent optimized one customer's cloud bill
Trusted by enterprises and partners on Microsoft Azure
Data Driven
Boral
TfNSW needed a solution to capture real-time data for every vehicle in motion across the state. This solution just gives us that so that we mine nuggets from this data. As you can imagine, this has resulted in a lot of data, which is costly to store!
Sandeep Mathur
Program Manager, Transport for NSW
22%
OpEx reduction on data lake
Trust & compliance
Built for enterprise procurement.
CloudMonitor is a hosted SaaS platform with scoped, read-only access to your billing data. Encrypted in transit and at rest, certified to ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ISO 42001.
FinOps Certified Specialty Solution ISO/IEC 27001
Information Security
ISO 9001
Quality Management
FinOps Foundation
Member organization
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Certified software · Azure
A look inside
Four reports your team will use weekly.
Cost analytics, the cost-driver view, anomaly detection, and AI spend: the reports the practitioners we ship to open first thing on Monday.
Cost analytics
The numbers your team opens first thing Monday.
A single view of Azure spend by subscription, cost group, and tag — the daily starting point for finance and engineering alike.
- Spend by subscription, cost group, and tag
- Cross-filtered drill-down from total to single resource
- Row-level security so each team sees its own slice
Cost drivers
Understand what is actually driving the bill.
Break spend down by resource, service, and tag to find the handful of line items moving the total — before the invoice lands.
Anomaly detection
Catch bill-shock before it lands.
Severity-tiered anomaly detection compares daily spend against forecast and routes each alert to its owner — so surprises surface in hours, not at month-end.
AI token spend
Where the AI token bill actually goes.
GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, Claude, and Cursor spend broken down by model and token type, riding the same ingestion path as the rest of the Azure estate.
Monitor Microsoft Fabric
Your Fabric capacity, not just your VMs.
A Fabric F SKU bills as one opaque line. CloudMonitor breaks it down by workspace and item, tracks CU consumption and throttling, and recommends when to scale, pause, or reserve, in the same model as the rest of your Azure bill.
Capacity cost
F SKU spend, reserved versus pay-as-you-go, and idle capacity, costed in your FOCUS model.
CU & throttling
Capacity Unit consumption and throttling events, so a noisy workspace surfaces before it rejects queries.
Right-size & chargeback
Scale, pause, or reserve recommendations, plus per-workspace cost charged back to teams.
See what CloudMonitor finds in your Azure spend.
Connect CloudMonitor to your Azure billing data for executive dashboards, ranked savings recommendations, and anomaly detection. Your team reviews every recommendation before making a change.