Skip to content

Every screen, and what it's for

Everything in CloudMonitor’s menu, in the order you’ll find it. Screens are grouped by what you’re trying to do: Inform tells you where the money went, Optimize finds ways to spend less, and Operate is where you run the day to day.

Some screens are optional modules. If one isn’t in your menu, it isn’t switched on for your workspace — an admin can turn it on under Settings ▸ Workspace Settings ▸ Features.

ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
OverviewWhere your spend stands right now, with the trend, your budget position and anything that needs attention.Everyone
ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
The LedgerThe full bill in one place — every charge, groupable by provider, service, cost group, subscription, region or virtual tag, three levels deep.Everyone
ExplorerBuild your own analysis: group by any dimension, switch the chart, show cost as a rate, then save it as a view.Everyone
Ask CloudMonitorAsk a question about your costs in plain English and get an answer from your own data.Set up at installation
Cost GroupsSpend for the period grouped by cost group, so you can see which part of the business each charge belongs to.Everyone
Unallocated CostsSpend that doesn’t belong to any cost group yet, and how big that gap is against the whole bill.Everyone
Cost AllocationHow your spend is divided between cost groups, and which rule sent each charge where.Everyone
Unit EconomicsCost expressed as a rate — per customer, per active user, per thousand requests — so spend reads against the value it produces.Coming soon · Needs the Unit Economics module
Microsoft 365Microsoft 365 usage, licensing and security in one place — adoption, users and groups, product licenses and license spend.Needs the Microsoft 365 module
ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
CommitmentsYour reservations and savings plans — what they save, how well they’re used, what’s expiring and what to buy next.Everyone
SavingsEvery waste and rightsizing opportunity across the estate, ranked by how much it would save.Everyone
AnomaliesCost spikes worth investigating, each with a likely cause, an owner and a next step.Everyone
WAF RecommendationsReliability, security, operational and performance recommendations for your Azure estate, in one list.Everyone
ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
Search ResourcesFind any single resource and see what it costs, who owns it and when it was created.Everyone
Virtual MachinesEvery virtual machine with its size, operating system, license and cost — and where Azure Hybrid Benefit is being applied.Everyone
FabricWhat your Microsoft Fabric capacity costs, and which workspaces, items and people are using it.Everyone
Budgets & ForecastsHow every budget is tracking against actual spend, with a month-end forecast and alert thresholds.Everyone
ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
AI SpendWhat your AI tools cost — by provider and model, including tokens, seats and compute.Needs the Tokenomics module
AI Tool AdoptionWhich AI tools your teams actually use, ranked by active users.Needs the Tokenomics module
AI Spend by Business UnitHow AI spend splits across your cost groups.Needs the Tokenomics module
Power UsersThe people using AI tools most, with their usage and spend for the period.Needs the Tokenomics module
Seat UtilizationSeats you’re paying for versus seats anyone is actually using.Needs the Tokenomics module
TokenMaxingWays to get more value from every unit of AI spend — caching, routing and batching, ranked by saving.Needs the Tokenomics module

Settings has its own menu, reached from Settings at the bottom of the sidebar.

ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
Cost GroupsCreate and edit the business units your spend is grouped into, and who owns each one.Everyone
Allocation rulesThe ordered rules that decide which cost group each charge belongs to.Everyone
BudgetsSet spending targets and the thresholds that trigger an alert.Everyone
Virtual TagsMap the many ways one tag is spelled across Azure onto a single reporting name.Everyone
Users & AccessWho can sign in, who is an administrator, and who holds a paid seat.Admins
Workspace SettingsYour organization’s name, reporting currency, financial year, time zone, branding and optional modules.Admins
Sources & IntegrationsThe data CloudMonitor reads and the tools it sends alerts to.Admins

These don’t have their own menu row — you arrive at them from a link, a row, or a tab.

ScreenWhere it opens from
Cost group detailClicking any cost group, on the Cost Groups report or a chart
Manage teamThe row menu on Settings ▸ Cost Groups
Profile & preferencesYour avatar, top right
Cost by service, subscription, resource group, tagThe grouping controls on The Ledger
Right-sizing, Idle & Orphaned, Storage OptimizationTabs on Savings & Waste
Reliability, Security, Operational Excellence, Performance EfficiencyTabs on WAF Recommendations