---
title: How-to Articles
canonical: "https://cloudmonitor.ai/docs/how-to/"
description: Task-based guides for the current CloudMonitor — connect your AI providers and read the AI cost dashboard.
---

import { CardGrid, LinkCard } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';

Task-based guides for the current CloudMonitor. Connect each AI provider to bring its token usage and dollar cost into your reports, then learn how to read the AI cost dashboard.

## Connect your AI providers

<CardGrid>
  <LinkCard
    title="How to connect GitHub Copilot"
    description="Create a GitHub access token with Copilot metrics and billing scopes to track seat cost, usage, and acceptance rates."
    href="/docs/how-to/how-connect-github-copilot/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="How to connect OpenAI"
    description="Generate an OpenAI Admin API key to track token usage and dollar cost across models, projects, users, and API keys."
    href="/docs/how-to/how-connect-openai/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="How to connect Anthropic Claude"
    description="Generate an Anthropic Admin API key to track token usage, prompt caching, batch discounts, and dollar cost per workspace."
    href="/docs/how-to/how-connect-anthropic-claude/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="How to connect Cursor"
    description="Generate a Cursor Admin API key to track per-developer model mix, seat utilization, and overage spend."
    href="/docs/how-to/how-connect-cursor/"
  />
</CardGrid>

## Read your AI cost reports

<CardGrid>
  <LinkCard
    title="How to read CloudMonitor's AI cost reports"
    description="Walk through the five KPIs on the AI cost dashboard — total spend, cost per developer, model mix, cache hit rate, batch percentage — and where to drill in."
    href="/docs/how-to/how-interpret-ai-token-cost-reports/"
  />
</CardGrid>