The reports
CloudMonitor has a lot of reports because cost questions come in a lot of shapes. This page is the shortcut: find your question, open that screen.
Start from the question
Section titled “Start from the question”| You want to know | Open |
|---|---|
| Where do we stand right now? | Your Overview |
| What exactly are we paying for? | The Ledger |
| How does it split by service, team or subscription? | Cost by service, team and more |
| I need to slice it a way you haven’t thought of | The Explorer |
| Which part of the business does this belong to? | The Cost Groups report |
| Everything about one team’s spend | Inside a cost group |
| What isn’t attributed to anyone? | Unallocated Costs |
| How is spend being divided up, and by what rule? | The Cost Allocation report |
| Are our commitments earning their keep? | Commitments |
| Where can we spend less? | Savings & Waste |
| What spiked, and whose is it? | The Anomaly Inbox |
| Is anything badly built, beyond cost? | WAF Recommendations |
| What does this one resource cost? | Search Resources |
| Are we over-licensed on VMs? | Virtual Machines |
| What is Fabric costing, and who is using it? | Microsoft Fabric costs |
| Will we come in on budget? | Budgets & Forecasts |
| Can I just ask a question? | Ask CloudMonitor |
If your workspace has the optional modules
Section titled “If your workspace has the optional modules”Not everyone does. Each page says so at the top, and an admin can turn them on.
| You want to know | Open |
|---|---|
| What do our AI tools cost? | AI Spend reports |
| Is anyone actually using them? | AI tool adoption |
| How do we get more per token? | TokenMaxing |
| Who has which Microsoft 365 licence? | Microsoft 365 |
| What does it cost us per customer? | Unit Economics — not finished yet |
Every screen and what it’s for lists everything in one table, including what you may not have.
Three habits that make all of them easier
Section titled “Three habits that make all of them easier”Set your filters first. The date range, provider, cost group and virtual tags at the top apply to every report at once. Set them, then navigate — don’t navigate and then wonder why the numbers moved. See filtering every report at once.
Read the ⓘ. Every report title has one. It says what the screen is for and where its numbers come from, in a sentence, written by the people who built it.
Learn the table once. Grouping, drilling and saved views work identically everywhere. See working with tables.
Two kinds of screen
Section titled “Two kinds of screen”It’s worth knowing which you’re looking at, because they behave differently.
Cost reports — the Ledger, Cost by…, Explorer, Cost Groups, Commitments — show money over a period. They honor the date range and the cost basis.
Finding reports — Anomalies, Savings & Waste, WAF Recommendations — show things CloudMonitor thinks you should look at. A finding has no date range of its own, so the Period filter doesn’t apply and CloudMonitor hides it rather than pretending. They share one triage workflow: comment and reassign, postpone, dismiss with a reason, or reopen.
Nothing in CloudMonitor is marked complete by hand. Findings close themselves when the underlying situation clears.