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The platform

One Azure FinOps platform. Three product surfaces.

CloudMonitor is a hosted SaaS platform with FinOps reports, a governance admin app, and a Microsoft Teams bot — all reading from a single FOCUS-aligned data model with scoped, read-only access to your Azure billing.

4/4

Domains covered

22/22

Capabilities implemented

30+

Pre-built reports

Member

FinOps Foundation member

Product surfaces

Three surfaces, one data model.

Every team gets a tool that fits their workflow — finance lives in the Fabric app, FinOps practitioners run the admin app, engineers respond to Teams alerts.

FinOps Reports

30+ pre-built FinOps reports covering every Capability — embedded in the CloudMonitor app.

Admin App

A governance console for setting cost groups, ownership, tags, virtual tags, RI strategy, and policy rules.

Teams Bot

Real-time anomaly alerts pushed to the right Teams channel — engineers respond before bill-shock happens.

One data model

Your data stays in your tenancy — read in place.

Every surface reads from one governed Fabric data model. Your FOCUS billing export stays in a storage account you own; CloudMonitor's managed Microsoft Fabric SaaS reads it in place through a OneLake shortcut — read-only, no second copy — then serves reports and Finn, the FinOps agent.

How your Azure cost data reaches CloudMonitor Your Azure Cost Management writes a scheduled FOCUS export into a storage account in a resource group you own, inside your own Azure tenancy. CloudMonitor's managed SaaS on Microsoft Fabric, in our tenancy, reads that export in place and read-only through a OneLake shortcut, then serves two surfaces off the same data: a Microsoft Fabric app of reports and insights, and Finn, a natural-language Fabric data agent. Both are consumed by your IT and FinOps team, business unit owners, and executives. YOUR AZURE TENANCY Azure Cost Management scheduled FOCUS export CLOUDMONITOR RESOURCE GROUP Storage account ADLS Gen2 · hierarchical namespace exports landing zone your data stays here Read-only service principal no access to your other resources OneLake shortcut read in place · no copy OUR AZURE TENANCY CloudMonitor on Fabric · managed SaaS Microsoft Fabric OneLake shortcut + pipelines transforms your exports CloudMonitor Fabric app reports, insights & recommendations Finn · the FinOps agent Fabric data agent ask your costs in plain English YOUR PEOPLE IT / FinOps team monitor & optimize Business unit owners cost accountability CFO / execs spend visibility
Your exported cost files never leave the storage account you own — CloudMonitor reads them in place, read-only, through a Microsoft Fabric OneLake shortcut, then serves both the Fabric app and Finn, a natural-language FinOps agent.

What it covers

A pre-built FinOps practice, out of the box.

FinOps Domains

Every Domain, every Capability — aligned to the Framework.

CloudMonitor implements all four Domains of the FinOps Framework: Understand Usage and Cost, Quantify Business Value, Optimize Usage and Cost, and Manage the FinOps Practice. All four rest on the six FinOps principles.

  • 22/22 FinOps Capabilities implemented
  • FOCUS 1.2 billing schema natively
  • FinOps Foundation member organization
  • Pre-built reports across all four Domains

FinOps Framework map

4 Domains, 22 Capabilities — every one implemented.

How install works

Connected to your Azure billing in under 15 minutes.

Sign up for CloudMonitor, point it at your FOCUS billing export, and grant scoped read-only access to your billing scope. Encrypted in transit and at rest, ISO 27001 + 9001 + 42001 certified.

  • Scoped read-only access to billing data
  • FOCUS 1.2 billing exports as the data source
  • ISO 27001 + 9001 + 42001 certified
  • White-label for CSP / MSP partners
How CloudMonitor ingests your Azure cost and usage data

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Compare CloudMonitor

Side-by-side against Azure Cost Management, Apptio Cloudability, CloudZero, Turbo360, and the Microsoft FinOps Toolkit.

The 1-page CFO pitch

22% year-one savings, <90 day payback, 5–10× ROI on the platform fee — in 60 seconds.

CloudMonitor for the CFO

How finance teams use chargeback, accruals, and the executive dashboard in CloudMonitor.

Stand up the platform in 15 minutes.

Sign up, connect your FOCUS billing export, and your reports are live the same day.