For cloud engineers & architects
Cost-aware engineering, without leaving the tools you use.
Ask Finn investigates cost changes inside CloudMonitor, while ranked recommendations land with the owner and evidence an engineer needs to make the call.
The problem
What slows engineers down.
Finance owns the data.
Engineers can't see what their own services cost without filing a ticket.
Recommendations are noise.
Azure Advisor surfaces 800 recommendations of $0.30 each. None are prioritized by impact.
Anomalies show up in the bill.
By the time you notice $4k of extra spend, it's been running for three weeks.
How CloudMonitor answers
Engineers get their own numbers.
Engineers see their own cost group.
Row-level security gives every cost group its own report. No tickets.
Recommendations ranked by saving.
See the $14k recommendation. Ignore the $0.30 ones.
Ask Finn explains the change.
Ask a plain-English question, review the supporting chart and cost rows, then decide whether an engineer should act.
Right-sizing & idle resources
Right-sizing recommendations you can ship without breaking SLAs.
CloudMonitor analyzes 14 days of CPU, RAM, IOPS, and network for every VM, App Service, SQL DB, and AKS node. Push each one to Jira, dismiss with a reason, or mark it applied after you ship the change.
- VM family + SKU recommendations
- App Service tier downsizing
- SQL DB DTU and vCore right-sizing
- Idle and orphaned resource discovery
Ask Finn
Investigate a cost change before changing a resource.
Included with Professional and Enterprise, Ask Finn gives active, licensed organization administrators and verified support staff using Support mode a role-gated way to explain changes, examine anomalies, and rank savings against the organization’s governed cost data. The answer includes evidence and a next step, but Finn remains read-only.
- Organization-wide service-identity answers, not narrowed by the viewer’s cost-group permissions
- Charts, tables, and Explorer handoffs attached to the investigation
- Savings recommendations presented with evidence and caveats
- Microsoft Teams extension available as a separate surface from the in-app experience
Outcomes
Engineers ship these outcomes.
Read-only
Ask Finn explains and recommends; engineers approve each change
$184k
Median annual saving surfaced per cost group
14d
Of usage data behind every recommendation
Data-Driven did a comprehensive audit of our Azure infrastructure and DevOps processes with CloudMonitor. They identified and improved several areas, saving our company thousands of dollars each month in subscription costs.
Rafic Habib
CEO, Clinic to Cloud
46%
Azure spend reduction
See Ask Finn work like an engineer.
Follow a recorded investigation from an Azure cost question to supporting evidence and a human-owned next step.
