How-to Articles

Step-by-step guides for common CloudMonitor tasks — Power BI, cost groups, reservations, permissions, and FinOps scenarios.

Common FinOps Scenarios

How to enable the Reservations/RI feature in CloudMonitor

How to get CloudMonitor with Incremental Refresh

How to setup CloudMonitor's Premium Managed Reports

Enabling managed upgrade service of your CloudMonitor app workspace

How to update your CloudMonitor Power BI App after a Managed Reports update

How to upgrade Power BI to the latest version

How to Resolve 'Couldn't overwrite app' when upgrading Power BI

How to delete a previously installed version of CloudMonitor Reports

How to refresh the Power BI Report manually

How to Subscribe to a CloudMonitor Report or Dashboard in Power BI

How to share the CloudMonitor Power BI App with teams

How to Change the Logos of the Report and Admin App (Whitelabelling)

Logos not showing in Power BI Reports

Allow CloudMonitor to access and view Billing Information

How to grant EnrollmentReader role to the CloudMonitor Service Principal (EA)

How to assign roles as an Enterprise Administrator (EA customers)

Assigning the Storage Account Contributor Role to the CloudMonitor Service Principal

How to access your AD Service Principal details

How to Add Permissions required for CloudMonitor to access M365 data

IT want to fix mis-tagged resources so that cost allocation is correct

IT have on-prem licenses — ensure all VMs use Azure Hybrid Licenses

FinOps Team: Review cloud resources created last month

FinOps Team: Understand savings from Reservation on a VM

The CIO wants a monthly report showing cloud costs across all Business Units

Each Program Manager wants a monthly snapshot of their Project Costs

A Program Manager wants to be alerted if forecasted to exceed monthly budget

A Program Manager wants to know if their use of VMs is trending downwards

A Program Manager: DEV vs PROD cost comparison for their Cost Group

A Tech Lead wants to delegate a cost anomaly investigation