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#

  1. Click “+ New dashboard”

  2. 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.

  1. 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)

Sharing a dashboard#

  1. Open the dashboard

  2. Click the Share button

  3. Search for users by name or email

  4. Set permission: View (read-only) or Edit (can modify widgets and layout)

  5. Save

Shared users see the dashboard under “Shared with you” in the Dashboards list.

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