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Dashboards & Reporting

Dashboards and reporting turn Cost Management data into stakeholder-ready views: high-level trends for executives, detailed breakdowns for FinOps and engineering teams, and exportable reports for finance and BI.

This section explains how to use Cloudaware analytics to build and share cost dashboards, track key FinOps KPIs, and integrate with external tools.

Use Cases​

Using dashboards and reports, you can:

  • Provide consistent, role‑appropriate cost views across teams and clouds.
  • Track trends for cost, allocation quality, commitments, and optimization over time.
  • Support budget, forecast, and anomaly workflows with clear, visual context.
  • Feed finance and BI tools with the same curated dataset used inside Cloudaware.

Prerequisites​

Dashboards and reports are most effective when billing ingestion is healthy, allocation rules are defined, and budgets or forecast targets are available.

If you are just getting started, refer to Cost Management Overview, Ingestion, and Allocation sections.

Reading Path​

Use these guides together to build cost views, measure FinOps performance, and share trusted data with stakeholders and downstream systems:

KPIs​

Define KPIs for cost, allocation, commitment efficiency, unit cost, waste, governance, and accountability. Use this guide to choose and interpret the metrics that show whether Cost Management practices are working.

Dashboards​

Design standard and persona-specific cost dashboards for executives, finance, FinOps, engineering, and application owners. Use this guide when you need visual views for spend trends, allocation quality, budgets, anomalies, and optimization signals

Exports​

Learn how to share curated cost data and reports with BI tools, data warehouses, finance systems, or external stakeholders. The guide explains how to use Cloudaware data for scheduled reporting, reconciliation, or downstream analysis.

Building Reports in Cloudaware​

For the mechanics of building standard reports, see Reports (Salesforce UI). Cost Management builds on the same underlying capabilities, but uses cost, allocation, and optimization data instead of (or in addition to) inventory data.