Your profile and preferences
Everything on this page is yours alone. Changing it affects what you see; it never changes what you are allowed to see, and nobody else in your organization is affected.
Open it from your avatar in the top-right corner, then Profile & preferences. The page hides the sidebar and the filter bar while you’re on it — press the back arrow to return to where you were.
Profile
Section titled “Profile”Your account, shown read-only. If the name or email is wrong, an admin fixes it under Settings ▸ Users & Access.
Cost basis
Section titled “Cost basis”This is the most consequential setting on the page, and the one worth understanding.
| Option | What it means | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Billed cost | Exactly what the provider invoiced, including one-off purchases, upfront fees and refunds | Reconciling against the invoice you actually received |
| Effective cost | Upfront and commitment fees spread across the period they cover, so spend follows usage | Showback, chargeback and trends — this is the default |
The difference shows up whenever you buy something upfront. Pay for a year of capacity in January and Billed cost puts the whole amount in January; Effective cost spreads it across all twelve months, which is almost always what you want when comparing teams or months to each other.
The Overview is the exception: it shows both figures side by side, so this setting doesn’t change it.
Three options — Practitioner, Leadership, Cost centre. Your view changes the headline and the highlighted numbers on your Overview, and which screen CloudMonitor opens on when you arrive without a specific link.
Pick the one that matches the job you do most:
- Practitioner — day-to-day cost control. The fullest view, and the default.
- Leadership — spend, forecast, budget variance and realized savings, without the operational detail.
- Cost centre — budget burn-down, chargeback and tag coverage for the groups you’re responsible for.
Language
Section titled “Language”English, Español, Nederlands and Français. This changes the app’s own labels and is remembered in the browser you set it in — so it won’t follow you to a different computer.
Your own data is unaffected: cost group names, tags and resource names appear exactly as they were entered.
Appearance
Section titled “Appearance”Light or dark, remembered in this browser.
Demo mode
Section titled “Demo mode”Switches the whole app onto illustrative sample data from a fictional company. Useful for showing someone how CloudMonitor works without exposing real figures.
While it’s on, a Demo mode badge sits in the top bar so nobody mistakes the sample numbers for real ones. Turning it off returns you to your own data.