Cost governance features
Allocate every dollar. Hold every team accountable.
CloudMonitor's governance suite gives finance, engineering, and exec teams a shared view of who spent what — with the controls to enforce policy, set budgets, and run chargeback.
Cost groups
Model your organization. Not your subscriptions.
Cost groups are CloudMonitor's allocation primitive. Group resources by business unit, project, product, customer, environment — whatever maps to how your company runs.
- Nested hierarchy. Up to 5 levels deep. Production → Region → Product line → Service.
- Tag-based or resource-based. Build groups from tag values, resource groups, or subscription IDs.
- Virtual tags. Define computed tags using rules — fix tagging gaps without redeploying.
- Shared-cost allocation. Split shared services across consuming cost groups by rule.
Ownership & RBAC
Every cost group has an owner. And only the right people see it.
Assign owners — Finance Owner, Technical Owner, Business Owner — to every cost group. Use role-based access to scope what each user sees.
- Three owner roles per group. Finance, Technical, and Business owners — independently assigned.
- Row-level security on reports. Engineers see their cost group only. Finance sees everything. Auditable.
- Azure AD integration. Sync owner identities and roles from Azure AD groups.
- Last-login tracking. See which owners actively engage with their cost group reports.
Budgets & policy
Set budgets. Enforce policy. Catch breaches.
Define monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets per cost group with multi-threshold alerts. Apply policy rules — disallow oversized VMs, untagged resources, prohibited regions.
- Multi-threshold budget alerts. Notify at 50%, 80%, and 100% of budget — to different audiences.
- Forecast vs budget. See where current spend is heading and act before breach.
- Policy rules. Disallow VMs above a SKU, untagged resources, or regions outside your data-residency.
- Auto-remediation hooks. Trigger Azure Automation or Logic Apps when a policy breach fires.
Chargeback & showback
Charge back to the right cost center. Down to the dollar.
Export per-cost-group invoices for SAP, Workday, NetSuite, or any finance system. Run showback for visibility-only customers; chargeback for actual recoveries.
- Per-cost-group invoicing. Generate monthly cost-center invoices in finance-ready CSV.
- RI chargeback. Allocate RI cost and savings back to consuming cost groups.
- Multi-currency support. For multi-region tenants, convert to local currency at the right FX.
- SAP / Finance integration. Push the journal directly to your finance system via webhook.
Chargeback invoice export
Per-cost-group monthly invoice with RI and shared-cost allocations.
Audit trail
Every change. Logged forever.
Every change to cost groups, tags, virtual tags, policy rules, ownership, and budgets is logged. Exportable for audit and compliance.
- Per-object change log. Who changed what, when, and from what value.
- Exportable for SOX & ISO audits. CSV exports formatted for typical audit toolchains.
- Anomaly investigation context. When investigating an anomaly, the audit log shows recent deployments and changes.
Set up your cost-group hierarchy in 30 minutes.
Try the live demo — pre-populated with a multi-tenant cost-group structure.