Domain 1 · Understand Usage and Cost
A report for every persona, not one dashboard for all.
Reporting and Analytics is where the FinOps practice earns trust. CloudMonitor ships twelve persona-aware Power BI reports — practitioner, engineering, finance, product, procurement, leadership — and lets you edit them in Power BI Desktop the same day a question comes in.
The problem
One dashboard, twelve audiences, zero answers.
One dashboard for everyone.
Finance wants invoice totals, engineering wants resource detail, leadership wants trend — the same page can't serve all three.
Static portal exports.
CSVs from the portal age out by Tuesday and stay in someone's downloads folder forever.
No drill-through.
An anomaly at the invoice line never traces back to the resource that caused it. The conversation stops at "ask the engineer".
How CloudMonitor answers
Twelve reports, one source of truth.
Persona-aware reports.
Twelve Power BI reports, one per audience: practitioner, engineering, finance, product, procurement, leadership. Each one starts with what that role needs to decide.
Edit in Power BI Desktop.
Open the .pbix, rewire the visuals, publish back. No SaaS lock-in, no waiting on a vendor roadmap to add a column.
Invoice to resource drill-through.
Click an invoice spike, land on the resource group, then the resource, then the meter. The conversation stays in one report.
Custom report builder.
The questions you didn't anticipate — built in the admin app, shared in Teams, scheduled to a mailbox. No ticket to the data team.
Outcomes
Reports leadership actually opens.
12
Persona-aware Power BI reports
Editable
Open in Power BI Desktop
Drill
Invoice → resource group → resource
See the twelve reports against a sample tenant.
The demo ships every persona report pre-loaded — open one, drill through, edit a visual.