Dashboard tour

Once a billing source is connected, the dashboards are where you read your spend. This page tours the main views so you know where to look for what.

The sidebar is organized into three groups: Dashboards at the top, Insights (the analysis views — Reports, Savings, Commitments, Anomalies, Tags, Alerting), and Manage (org-wide configuration — Allocation, Budgets, Cost centers). A scope picker at the top of each view selects the provider and integration the view reads from, and it stays put as you move between views. A Cost view control in the same bar switches every source to one cost basis — credits, taxes, or amortization — for the session; by default each integration keeps its own cost settings.

The Dashboards menu adapts to what you have connected. With one kind of source it goes straight to that dashboard; once your sources span more than one category — cloud platforms, AI platforms, or a data warehouse — it leads with an org-wide Overview, groups providers under clickable category headers (Cloud, AI), and lists each provider beneath.

The Overview (all sources)

When your organization has more than one category of source connected, landing on the dashboard opens the Overview — every connected source in one ledger roll-up. It surfaces:

Total spend (MTD) — across every source, compared to the same days last month, with a forecasted month-end.
AI platforms share — what portion of total spend is direct Anthropic / OpenAI platform usage.
Sources — how many sources are connected, with a “data through” freshness stamp per source.
Monthly and daily cost by source — stacked charts, one color per provider; click a segment to open that provider’s own dashboard.
Top services across sources — the biggest line items this month, labeled Provider · Service.

Spend that your cloud provider bills — like Claude on AWS Bedrock or Azure OpenAI — counts as cloud spend here (it’s on your cloud invoice), so every number reconciles against the bills you actually receive.

The Cloud dashboard

The Cloud dashboard — opened from Dashboards (or automatically as your landing view when cloud is your only source category) — is the home of your day-to-day cloud cost picture. At organization scope it combines every connected cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud); pick a provider in the Dashboards menu or the scope picker to focus on one. It’s available on every tier and pulls from the single cost ledger. It surfaces:

KPIs — headline numbers, including month-to-date spend versus the previous month.
Spend trend — how spend is tracking over time, so you can see direction at a glance.
Top movers — the services (and accounts) whose spend changed most, so the biggest swings surface first.
Per-account breakdown — spend rolled up by each linked account or subscription.

The AI platforms dashboard

With an Anthropic or OpenAI integration connected, Dashboards also offers the AI Spend view — token-level cost for your direct API usage, by model, token type (including cache reads and writes), workspace/project, API key, and batch versus standard tier. With both providers connected it opens as a combined view with a per-provider split; a toggle narrows to one provider. Bedrock and Azure OpenAI are deliberately not shown here — they’re billed by your cloud provider and live in cloud spend.

For the full reporting surface — pivoting by product family, usage type, or tag, and saving or exporting a view — head to Reports under Insights in the sidebar (see Cost reporting).

Where everything else lives

Each sidebar entry goes deeper on one part of FinOps.

Under Insights:

Reports — build detailed pivot reports, save them, and export to CSV. See Cost reporting.
Savings — rightsizing, idle-resource, and commitment recommendations with dollar estimates. See Savings.
Commitments — Reserved Instance and Savings Plan utilization and upcoming expiries. See Commitments.
Anomalies — spot unusual month-over-month and week-over-week swings and investigate the drivers. See Anomalies.
Tags — how much of your spend carries cost-allocation tags, and where the gaps are. See Tag coverage.
Alerting — rules and notification channels that push cost and budget events to Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email. See Alerts.

Under Manage:

Allocation — assign spend to cost centers with allocation rules. See Cost allocation.
Budgets — set targets and watch actual-versus-forecast pace against them. See Budgets.
Cost centers — define the cost centers that allocation assigns spend to. See Cost centers.

Organization-level administration — settings, members, billing, integrations, notification channels, and cost settings — lives behind the Admin entry at the bottom of the sidebar.

Reading spend with an agent

You can also query all of this in plain language by connecting an AI agent through the CloudQuell MCP server — ask “why did our RDS spend jump last week?” and the agent answers from your live data.