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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 ▸ 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: 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
Cost AllocationSpend for the period grouped by cost group, so you can see which part of the business each charge belongs to.Everyone
Ask FinnInvestigate your cloud and AI costs in plain English, with contextual follow-ups and evidence from your own data.Everyone
Unit EconomicsCost expressed as a rate — per customer, per active user, per thousand requests — so spend reads against the value it produces.Needs the Unit Economics module
Microsoft 365Microsoft 365 usage, licensing and security: 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.Needs the Azure module
SavingsEvery waste and rightsizing opportunity across the estate, ranked by how much it would save.Needs the Azure module
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.Needs the Azure module
ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
AlertsEvery anomaly and budget alert raised for you, including what fired and what happened afterward.Everyone
Search ResourcesFind any single resource and see what it costs, who owns it and when it was created.Needs the Azure module
Virtual MachinesEvery virtual machine with its size, operating system, license and cost — and where Azure Hybrid Benefit is being applied.Needs the Azure module
FabricWhat your Microsoft Fabric capacity costs, and which workspaces, items and people are using it.Needs the Azure module
Budgets & ForecastsHow every budget is tracking against actual spend, with a month-end forecast and alert thresholds.Everyone
Audit trailWho changed what across your cost groups, from budget edits to triage decisions and the comments explaining them.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
M365 CopilotHow current M365 Copilot licence health and selected-period cost compare with the previous period and reconcile to mapped charge rows.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

These pages do not have a persona menu item of their own. Open them from their parent report.

ScreenWhat it answersWho has itWhere it opens from
Unallocated CostsSpend that doesn’t belong to any cost group yet, and how big that gap is against the whole bill.EveryoneCost Allocation tabs
Cost AllocationHow your spend is divided between cost groups, and which rule sent each charge where.EveryoneCost Allocation tabs
Budgets & ForecastsSet spending targets and the thresholds that trigger an alert.EveryoneBudgets & Forecasts tabs

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

ScreenWhat it answersWho has it
Virtual TagsMap the many ways one tag is spelled across Azure onto a single reporting name.Everyone
AlertsWhere alerts go by default, and which cost groups send theirs to a different Teams channel.Admins
FeaturesTurn the optional modules available in your workspace on or off.Admins
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 and branding.Admins
Personas & navigationWhich shared personas users can choose and which report pages each persona shows.Everyone
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 Cost Allocation ▸ 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

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