Monitor — Dashboards#
Monitor dashboards are personalised cost visibility workspaces built from a library of 12 widgets. Arrange them on a canvas, configure each widget’s data scope, and save as a named dashboard. Dashboards can be shared with teammates and set as your default view.
Navigate: left navigation → FinOps → Monitor → Dashboards.
The dashboards list#
The Dashboards section shows:
Your dashboards — dashboards you created
Shared with you — dashboards shared by teammates
Search bar to filter by name
“+ New dashboard” button
Creating a dashboard#
Click “+ New dashboard”
Choose a starting point:
Option A — Start from a preset#
Preset |
Intended for |
Pre-configured widgets |
|---|---|---|
CFO Executive |
C-suite / finance leadership |
Cost Summary, Budget Status, Provider Breakdown, Month Comparison |
DevOps Engineer |
Platform / infra engineers |
Resource Count, Cost by Group, Top Spenders, Cost Trend |
Product Owner |
Product managers |
Group Budget Comparison, Top Growing Groups, Group Trend |
FinOps Analyst |
FinOps practitioners |
All trend charts, Group Allocation Efficiency, Top Spenders |
Team Lead |
Team managers with budget ownership |
Budget Status, Group Trend, Group Budget Comparison |
Option B — Start blank#
Empty canvas; add widgets manually.
Give the dashboard a name → Save
Adding and configuring widgets#
On the dashboard canvas, click “+ Add Widget” → the widget library opens.
The 12 widget types#
Overview
Cost Summary — KPI card: total cost for a period with optional comparison
Resource Count — count of discovered resources
Trends
Cost Trend — line or area chart over time
Month Comparison — current month vs previous month bar chart
Group Trend Comparison — cost trend for multiple groups overlaid on one chart
Breakdown
Top Spenders — ranked list of most expensive resources or connections
Cost by Provider — spend split by Azure / AWS / GCP
Cost by Group — spend per Group hierarchy node
Top Growing Groups — groups with the biggest month-on-month increase
Group Allocation Efficiency — % of costs attributed vs unallocated per group
Budget
Budget Status — utilisation for a specific budget
Group Budget Comparison — multiple budgets side-by-side
Widget configuration options#
Setting |
Description |
|---|---|
Time Range |
Preset time ranges (same as Assess and Analyze) |
Providers |
Filter to Azure / AWS / GCP |
Group filter mode |
All Organisation / Specific Groups / Environments only / Projects only |
Specific Groups |
Multi-select from the allocation tree (available when mode = Specific Groups) |
Chart type |
Line / Area / Bar (available on trend widgets) |
Setting a default dashboard#
Click the three-dot menu on any dashboard card → “Set as default”. The default dashboard loads automatically when you open the Monitor tab.
Resizing and moving widgets#
Drag the widget header to reposition
Drag the bottom-right corner to resize
Click Save layout after rearranging to persist the changes
Cost Spike Detection#
Reply CMP automatically analyses your ingested costs after every refresh and sends a notification when an unexpected spike is detected.
Navigate: left navigation → FinOps → Monitor → Cost Spike Alerts.
How it works#
After each cost ingestion, the platform compares the most recent day’s costs to a ML-generated forecast. A spike is raised when both of the following conditions are met simultaneously:
Condition |
Default threshold |
|---|---|
Percentage increase above forecast |
≥ 25 % |
Absolute increase above forecast |
≥ 2.00 (reporting currency) |
Both conditions must hold at the same time. This prevents alerts from firing on small absolute amounts that happen to be high in percentage terms (e.g. a €0.50 resource doubling in cost would not trigger an alert with default settings).
Group-level spike detection#
When Detect group spikes is enabled (default: on), the engine also checks spend within each allocation group and reports which groups crossed the threshold — not just the tenant total. The notification email lists each affected group with its actual cost, forecasted cost, and the excess amount.
Configuring spike alerts#
Open FinOps → Monitor → Cost Spike Alerts
Toggle Enable spike detection on or off
Adjust Percentage threshold (default 25 %) and Absolute threshold (default 2.00)
Toggle Detect group spikes on or off
Configure Notification settings:
In-app — notification bell in Reply CMP
Email — one or more recipient addresses
Webhook — select registered webhook channels (see Webhooks)
Tip
Lower the absolute threshold if you want to catch spikes in lower-cost environments. Raise the percentage threshold if you have noisy workloads with high natural variance.
Note
Spike detection runs automatically after every cost ingestion. There is no manual trigger — it is always evaluated against the most recently ingested data.