Domain 1 · Understand Usage and Cost
Every bill, every billing day, in one place.
Data Ingestion is the foundation of every other Capability. CloudMonitor pulls FOCUS-formatted billing data daily, validates it on every refresh, and backfills to the first invoice — so every downstream report starts from numbers that reconcile.
The problem
Billing data nobody can trust.
CSVs nobody can join.
Cost exports land in storage, get joined by hand, drift from the portal totals within a week.
Silent refresh failures.
A failed daily refresh means yesterday's report quietly becomes a five-day-old report.
Multi-cloud, multi-shape.
Every provider's export looks different until something normalises them. FOCUS does — if you've built the pipeline.
How CloudMonitor answers
A pipeline you don't have to maintain.
FOCUS-native ingest.
FOCUS 1.2 schema for Azure and AWS, FOCUS 1.0 onward elsewhere. The same columns mean the same thing across every provider.
Validated on every refresh.
Row counts, reconciled totals, and schema drift checks run before any report is published. Failures surface to the practitioner, not the audience.
Backfill to first invoice.
Year-on-year trends on day one — not after twelve months of data has accrued in the new tool.
Beyond cloud bills.
SaaS, licensing, marketplace, and private-cloud feeds land in the same schema — the scope expansion the State of FinOps 2026 calls out as table stakes.
Outcomes
What good ingest looks like.
Daily
FOCUS refresh, validated
9+
Providers with FOCUS exports
Day 1
Backfilled history
See ingest reconciled live to the Azure portal.
The demo tenant ships with a refresh log so you can see validation in action.