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title: What data CloudMonitor can see
canonical: "https://cloudmonitor.ai/docs/reference/what-data-cloudmonitor-can-see/"
description: "The Azure Cost Management datasets CloudMonitor ingests, with Microsoft field schemas and guidance for personal data in resource names and tags."
---

CloudMonitor reads standard **Azure Cost Management** datasets — the same cost,
pricing, and reservation records you can export yourself from the Azure portal.
Every field is published by Microsoft, so you can see exactly what we ingest.

:::note[Customer-supplied personal or confidential data]
These datasets contain billing and resource metadata rather than content from
inside your workloads. Customer-defined resource names and tags may contain
personal or confidential data if your organization enters it there.
CloudMonitor processes those values when they appear in the export.
:::

For where that data then lives and how it is kept apart from other customers,
read [Security and data isolation](/docs/reference/security-and-data-isolation/).

## The datasets we ingest

Which datasets apply depends on your billing account type — **Enterprise
Agreement (EA)**, **Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)**, or **CSP / partner**
(you are billed under your partner's MCA, so the MCA schemas apply). The
[Cost Management dataset schema index](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/schema-index)
is Microsoft's authoritative list. Open any link below to see every field in
that dataset.

| Dataset | What it contains | Field schema (Microsoft Learn) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Cost and usage details — FOCUS 1.2-preview** | Every cost and usage line item: resources, meters, quantities, effective and list prices, and amortized costs. The core dataset, published in the open [FOCUS](https://focus.finops.org/) format and shared across EA and MCA. | [FOCUS 1.2-preview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/cost-usage-details-focus) · [EA](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/cost-usage-details-ea) · [MCA](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/cost-usage-details-mca) |
| **Price sheet** | Your organization's negotiated and list prices per meter. | [EA](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/price-sheet-ea) · [MCA](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/price-sheet-mca) |
| **Reservation details** | Your reservation inventory and how much of each reservation was used. | [Schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/reservation-details-mca) |
| **Reservation recommendations** | Where buying a reservation would cut your rate. | [Schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/reservation-recommendations-ea) |
| **Reservation transactions** | Reservation purchases, exchanges, and refunds. | [Schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/reservation-transactions-ea) |

## How this maps to your agreement

- **Enterprise Agreement (EA):** cost and usage via [FOCUS 1.2-preview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/cost-usage-details-focus) (or the [EA cost and usage schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/cost-usage-details-ea)), the [EA price sheet](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/price-sheet-ea), and the reservation datasets above.
- **Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA):** cost and usage via [FOCUS 1.2-preview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/cost-usage-details-focus) (or the [MCA cost and usage schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/cost-usage-details-mca)), the [MCA price sheet](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/price-sheet-mca), and [MCA reservation details](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/dataset-schema/reservation-details-mca).
- **CSP / partner:** you are billed under your partner's Microsoft Customer Agreement, so the **MCA** schemas apply. Some billing-scope data (for example, reservation purchases) is held by your partner; where you only have subscription access, CloudMonitor reads cost and usage at the subscription scope. See the [access guide](/docs/cloudmonitor-on-fabric/granting-cloudmonitor-access-to-your-azure-environment/) for what to grant.

## Microsoft 365 data

None of your Microsoft 365 data is read unless you connect it, which is an
optional grant through a second service principal. It brings in license usage,
Secure Score, and Teams activity rather than mail, files, or message content,
and a Cloud Application Administrator has to approve the permissions on
Microsoft's consent screen. See
[granting CloudMonitor access to Microsoft 365 data](/docs/cloudmonitor-on-fabric/granting-cloudmonitor-access-to-microsoft-365-data/)
for the exact permissions.

## Related pages

- [Security and data isolation](/docs/reference/security-and-data-isolation/) — where your data lives and who can reach it.
- [Where your numbers come from](/docs/reference/where-your-numbers-come-from/) — how current each dataset is.
- [Architecture and data flow](/docs/cloudmonitor-on-fabric/architecture-and-data-flow/) — the path from Azure export to report.