CostGlass Documentation & Multi-Cloud Onboarding Guides
Read-only setup guides for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode, Cloudflare, Kubernetes clusters, AI model providers, and SaaS billing connectors.
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Willkommen bei CostGlass — What CostGlass does, who it is for, how your data gets in, the plans and regions, and a plain-English glossary.Quickstart: Ihre erste Stunde — Sign up, connect a first cloud, invite your team, set a budget and turn on anomaly alerts, with a first-week checklist.Navigation & Orientierung — A tour of the sidebar, top bar and page controls: what every page answers, plan gating, currency, language, links and caching.Dashboards — The Overview dashboard widget by widget, plus building custom dashboards you can share with your organisation.Cloud-Ressourcen — The multi-cloud inventory: filters, search, categories, estimated cost, terminated resources and CSV or Excel export.Verfügbarkeit, Vorfälle & Support — Monitor public endpoints, route alerts, see incidents and raise requests to CostGlass engineers.Wie CostGlass auf Ihre Daten zugreift — Security and data ingestion architecture: how CostGlass reads multi-cloud billing and telemetry through read-only roles and least-privilege permissions.Dashboard & Platform Screenshot Tour — Visual walkthrough of the CostGlass interface with screenshots covering multi-cloud spend, Cost Explorer, anomalies, Kubernetes allocation, and savings.Verbinden Sie Ihre Clouds: Übersicht — Every cloud and service you can connect, how each one connects, what access it needs, how long data takes and your plan limits.Verbinden Sie AWS (CloudFormation) — Deploy the generated CloudFormation template, choose organization or single account and optional features, then verify.Verbinden Sie AWS mit Terraform statt mit CloudFormation — A Terraform equivalent of the generated AWS template, with an Organization variant and a way to compare it to the wizard.Azure verbinden — Admin consent for the CostGlass application, Reader and Cost Management Reader roles, management group or subscription scope, and a Terraform version.Google Cloud verbinden — Enable the FOCUS BigQuery export, run the IAM grants CostGlass prints, verify, and a Terraform version.Verbundene Konten verwalten — The Cloud Accounts page: statuses, syncing, errors, naming, disconnecting, and the FOCUS 1.0 and CUR Export pages.Oracle Cloud (OCI) verbinden — Give CostGlass read-only access to Oracle Cost and Usage Reports with a Resource Manager stack or your own Terraform.Alibaba Cloud verbinden — Connect Alibaba Cloud through Bill Subscription files in OSS and a read-only RAM role created by a ROS template.Verbinden Sie DigitalOcean — Connect DigitalOcean accounts with a read-only personal access token and see invoices by month.Verbinden Sie Akamai / Linode — Connect Linode (Akamai Connected Cloud) accounts with an account read-only token.Cloudflare verbinden — Connect Cloudflare usage-based charges with a Billing Read account token and see credits and unpaid debt.Verbinden Sie OpenAI, Anthropic, Datadog und Snowflake — Connect AI and software vendors with admin keys or a Snowflake key pair so their spend sits beside your cloud costs.Kosten-Explorer — Slice, compare and drill into spend across every connected cloud: group by, filters, charts, overlays, details, AI, links and export.Gespeicherte Ansichten, gespeicherte Filter und geplante E-Mails — Keep, share and email the Cost Explorer views you use often, and reuse include/exclude filters across views and reports.Berichte — Build, compare, export, save and schedule spend reports, with presets, Excel, CSV and PDF exports.SaaS- und KI-Ausgaben — Spend and token analytics for OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Datadog, Snowflake and cloud AI services.Einheitsökonomie — Cost per business unit: define metrics, send volumes, set targets and alerts.Verbinden Sie einen Kubernetes-Cluster — Install OpenCost and the CostGlass exporter in your cluster so cost data is pushed to CostGlass every 15 minutes.Seite „Kubernetes-Kosten“ — Understand cluster, namespace, workload and pod costs, idle capacity, rightsizing, carbon and health.Tagging-Strategie: Tags optimal nutzen — How to tag cloud resources, enforce tagging, and when to use cloud tags or virtual tags in CostGlass.Tag-Explorer — Group billed spend by the value of a tag, see tag coverage per cloud and drill into resources.Tag-Konformität — Define required AWS tags, measure compliance, and fix missing tags with Quick Tag, batch apply or a CLI script.Virtuelles Tagging — Allocate spend by team, product or environment with rules, no cloud changes, with a rule builder and CostGlass AI.Prognosen — Forecast month-end spend, the next months and a yearly run-rate, and simulate the cost of changes.Budgets — Create spending limits for a cloud, account, service or team, and see how CostGlass budgets differ from native AWS, Azure and Google budgets.Anomalieerkennung — How CostGlass finds unusual daily cost, how to tune it, explain it and be notified.Kostenwarnungen — Alert when spend rises versus the previous day, week, month or quarter.Alle Alarm- und Benachrichtigungstypen — A comparison of every alert and notification in CostGlass, with channel setup and testing.Probleme und Anmerkungen — Dated notes on spend, and a lightweight issue tracker for cost work with Jira push.Spar-Playbook — A prioritised, step-by-step programme for reducing your cloud bill, with a 30/60/90-day plan.Sparempfehlungen — How the Savings page finds, prices and tracks savings for every connected cloud and platform.Rightsizing (Ressourcenanpassung) — Find servers and databases that are too big, or too small, using real CPU and memory measurements.Verpflichtungen: Sparpläne und reservierte Instanzen — Track coverage, utilisation, expiry and purchase recommendations for Savings Plans, Reservations and committed use discounts.Instance Scheduler — Start and stop non-production servers on a weekly schedule to stop paying for idle hours.Gewähren Sie Ihrem Team Zugriff — Invite people, choose Owner, Admin or Member roles, remove users and limit what they see.Einrichten Ihrer Organisationshierarchie — Build a tree of nodes, place cloud accounts by hand, rule or CSV, and scope people to a branch.Entwerfen Sie Ihre Hierarchie (mit Unternehmensbeispielen) — Principles and worked patterns for AWS Organizations, single accounts, multi-cloud groups, MSPs and regulated regions.Single Sign-On (SAML & OIDC) — Connect Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace or another provider, verify your domain, test and require SSO.API-Schlüssel und KI-Assistenten (MCP) — Create API keys and connect Claude Desktop, Cursor or Claude Code to your cost data.Audit-Protokoll — See who changed what and when, with before and after values, kept for 24 months.Datenresidenz und -speicherung — Your fixed region, how long cost history is kept, purge now and the data handling summary.Benachrichtigungseinstellungen, Jira und Chat — Weekly spend summary, Slack and Teams webhooks, and connecting Jira Cloud.Chat-Apps: CostGlass in Slack und Microsoft Teams — Ask the CostGlass Agent about your costs from Slack or Microsoft Teams: connect a workspace, link your account, change things with Confirm and post a weekly digest.Troubleshooting & Common Setup Fixes — Solutions for common cloud connection and ingestion issues across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, and SSO.