Azure cost
Billed and effective Azure cost from the FOCUS export, allocated by cost group and owner.
Explore Azure scope →Ask Finn for proactive FinOps
Improve the ROI on your Azure and AI spend.
CloudMonitor brings Azure billing and connected AI spend into one governed cost-group view. Daily signals surface anomalies, unallocated spend, and prioritized savings. Ask Finn explains changes and shows validated evidence when available; your team decides what to investigate and what to do next.
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Certified software · Azure
FinOps Certified
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ISO 27001 + 9001
Certified · ISO 42001 verified
What CloudMonitor does
Move FinOps signals toward an accountable next action.
Move from visibility to investigation, optimization, and accountability using governed Azure billing data.
Full visibility
Drill from total Azure cost to subscriptions, resource groups, resources, and cost groups, with owners shown where assigned.
Prioritized recommendations
Right-sizing, reservations, idle resources, storage tiers, and hybrid licensing, ranked by projected monthly savings and supporting evidence.
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 shows validated evidence when available.
Cost accountability
Allocate spend to cost groups built from tags, resource groups, or subscriptions. Prepare showback and chargeback views, 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 gives active, licensed organization administrators and verified support staff using Support mode a plain-English investigation over organization-wide Microsoft Fabric cost data. 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
How the platform is organized
Follow cost data into the decisions it should change.
These workflows map to Understand Usage and Cost, Optimize Usage and Cost, and Manage the FinOps Practice. The 2026 State of FinOps survey found that 78% of practices report into the CTO or CIO organization, among 1,192 respondents representing more than $83 billion in cloud spend.
Understand Usage and Cost
Move from Azure allocation to anomaly triage in one workflow.
CloudMonitor ingests Azure billing through FOCUS exports with scoped, read-only access. Reports group spend by cost group, tag, and assigned owner.
- Allocate to cost groups, business units, projects, tags
- Reporting & analytics for finance, engineering, and execs
- Threshold-based anomalies refreshed with each data update
- Shared-cost allocation across cost centers
Optimize Usage and Cost
Rank Azure savings by projected monthly impact.
Each data update refreshes a prioritized queue of rightsizing, reservation, idle-resource, storage, and Hybrid Benefit opportunities. Review the evidence, then hand the decision to the owning team.
- Right-sizing across VMs, App Services, SQL, AKS
- Reserved instance and Savings Plan analysis
- Idle and orphaned resource discovery
- Projected monthly savings with supporting evidence
Manage the FinOps Practice
Prepare showback and chargeback from an auditable cost model.
CloudMonitor provides role-based access, an attributed audit trail, and cost-group views for showback and chargeback preparation. It remains read-only; Finance owns any accounting journal.
- Role-based access for finance, engineering, and partners
- Audit trail for every cost-group, tag, and rule change
- Owner and status history for anomalies and recommendations
- Chargeback-ready allocation and RI split views
Current data coverage
Work from the cost and usage CloudMonitor can evidence today.
CloudMonitor starts with connected Azure billing data and shows the source behind each additional signal. Sample or unconnected provider telemetry stays visibly separate from live customer data.
AI cost and usage
Azure OpenAI and Microsoft 365 Copilot charges where the billing line identifies the product, plus live GitHub Copilot usage after connection.
Review AI coverage →Marketplace and licensing
Azure Marketplace purchases, Hybrid Benefit opportunities, and identifiable licensing charges from the Azure bill.
Review licensing scope →Customer outcomes
Numbers our customers are willing to share.
46%
Clinic to Cloud reduced Azure spend
22%
Transport for NSW reduced data-lake Azure spend
Up to 32%
Azure savings for XContent customers
Trusted by enterprises and partners on Microsoft Azure
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. It is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001; Equal Assurance issued an ISO/IEC 42001 Certificate of Verification.
FinOps Certified Specialty Solution ISO/IEC 27001
Information Security
ISO 9001
Quality Management
FinOps Foundation
Member organization
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Certified software · Azure
A look inside
Start each week with the reports that need a decision.
Open cost analytics, cost drivers, anomaly detection, and AI spend before Monday's FinOps review.
Cost analytics
The numbers your team opens first thing Monday.
A single view of Azure spend by subscription, cost group, and tag, giving finance and engineering the same starting point.
- 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 line items moving the total before the invoice lands.
Anomaly detection
Catch bill-shock before it lands.
CloudMonitor compares daily cost movement with configured thresholds, then records severity, impact, a derived likely cause, an owner when available, and a next-step link.
AI token spend
Trace AI spend to the available source.
See billed AI cost and live GitHub Copilot usage by provider and model. Missing provider token feeds remain explicitly labeled as not connected.
Microsoft Fabric cost
Put Fabric capacity cost beside the rest of Azure.
CloudMonitor reads capacity-level Fabric F SKU charges from the Azure FOCUS export. It shows billed and effective cost and period trends today; deeper CU and workspace views remain labeled sample-data previews.
Capacity-level cost
Billed and effective cost for Fabric F SKUs from the live Azure FOCUS export.
Period trends
Compare Fabric capacity charges with the rest of your Azure services in the same cost reports.
A clear preview boundary
CU consumption, throttling, and workspace allocation use sample data until a production telemetry feed is connected.
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.