FinOps Framework alignment
Every Domain. Every Capability. Out of the box.
CloudMonitor implements the FinOps Framework end-to-end. Four Domains. Twenty-two Capabilities. Each one mapped to a Power BI report or an admin-app workflow.
4/4
Domains covered
22/22
Capabilities implemented
12
Pre-built Power BI reports
90%
Of practitioners now manage SaaS spend — State of FinOps 2026
Domain 1 of 4
Understand cloud usage and cost
See what you have, where it lives, who owns it, and what it costs — before doing anything else.
Data Ingestion
FOCUS 1.0 export ingested daily, backfilled to install, validated on every refresh.
Reporting and Analytics
Twelve Power BI reports, customizable per audience — finance, engineering, executive.
Anomaly Management
Daily detection, per-resource alerts to Teams or any ITSM you point us at.
Domain 2 of 4
Quantify business value
Tie every dollar of cloud spend to a business outcome — before you defend the bill.
Planning and Estimating
Project a workload's cost before it ships, against historic patterns and committed rates.
Budgeting
Monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets with multi-threshold alerts at the cost-group level.
Forecasting
Per-resource and per-cost-group forecasts against any horizon — month, quarter, year.
Unit Economics
Cost per customer, per transaction, per release — pick your denominator.
Sustainability
Carbon impact reports sit alongside spend, attributable to the same cost groups.
Domain 3 of 4
Optimize cloud usage and cost
Find every saving, surface every opportunity, and prioritize by annual return.
Commitment Discounts
Reservation and Savings Plan analysis with break-even modeling and utilization tracking.
Workload Optimization
Architectural patterns flagged when a workload could be cheaper without losing performance.
License Optimization
Azure Hybrid Benefit, BYOL, and marketplace licences reviewed every month.
Cloud Sustainability
Carbon footprint per workload, surfaced beside spend in the same dashboard.
Domain 4 of 4
Manage the FinOps practice
Run the practice as a discipline — with cadence, ownership, and audit trails.
FinOps Practice Operations
Cadence, SLAs, and review workflows wired into the admin app from day one.
FinOps Assessment
Crawl, Walk, Run scoring across every Capability each quarter — see your path from ad-hoc reporting to self-enforcing policy, with movement tracked over time.
FinOps Education and Enablement
In-product training, role-based onboarding paths, and a certification track per persona.
Onboarding Workflows
Cost-aware playbooks for cloud migrations, new tenants, and acquisitions.
Cloud Policy and Governance
Policy rules, audit trail, and role-based access — every change is logged and reviewable.
FinOps Tools and Services
Native Azure integration plus Jira, ServiceNow, and webhook hooks for any downstream system.
Invoicing and Chargeback
Per-cost-group invoices and journal-ready exports straight into your finance system.
Cloud Vendor Management
Track commitments, ACR draw-down, and renewals across every vendor and agreement.
See every Capability mapped to a CloudMonitor surface.
Walk through the live demo, or read the framework directly on finops.org.