FinOps Domain
Understand cloud usage and cost.
Comprehend and allocate cost and usage across the organization before you act on it. This Domain is the foundation that every other Capability builds on — and where CloudMonitor lights up day one.
The first FinOps Domain answers a simple question: what is the organization spending on cloud, and who is responsible for it. Get this layer right and every later optimization compounds; get it wrong and forecasts wander, chargeback fights drag on, and engineers stop trusting the numbers.
What CloudMonitor delivers in this Domain
- Data Ingestion. FOCUS 1.0 export pulled daily from your billing account, backfilled to install, and validated on every refresh. No manual exports, no broken pipelines.
- Allocation. Cost groups, virtual tags, and shared-cost splits route every dollar into the owner's view — without renaming a single Azure resource.
- Reporting and Analytics. Twelve pre-built Power BI reports, each tunable per audience: finance gets accruals, engineering gets unit cost, executives get the trend.
- Anomaly Management. Daily detection at the resource level, with alerts routed to Teams, Slack, or any ITSM you already run.
The four Capabilities under this Domain — Data Ingestion, Allocation, Reporting and Analytics, and Anomaly Management — are named verbatim from the FinOps Framework. CloudMonitor implements each one as a shipped feature, not a configuration project.
Explore the full FinOps platform.
See how CloudMonitor implements all four FinOps Foundation Domains end-to-end.