Dashboard & Platform Screenshot Tour

Visual walkthrough of the CostGlass interface with screenshots covering multi-cloud spend, Cost Explorer, anomalies, Kubernetes allocation, and savings.

Dashboard tour: what you will see

A picture of every page, with what it is for and what to expect on it, so you know where to look before you open it.

About these screenshots. They were taken from a demonstration organisation with sample data, so your own figures will differ. A page for something you have not connected yet shows an empty state that says what is missing; it never fills the gap with made-up numbers. Click any screenshot to see it full size.

Costs & analysis

Dashboard open this page

Your month at a glance: spend to date across clouds and AI vendors, the projected month-end figure, potential savings, estimated rightsizing savings, how many cloud resources were found and your tag compliance. Below that are the daily cost trend, the quickest savings, and the clouds you have connected.

What to expect: Every card is a widget you can drag and resize; your layout is saved to your user, and Reset layout restores the default. A brand-new organisation looks empty until the first sync finishes, and the page offers a Fetch data now button in the meantime.

Cost Explorer open this page

Slice spend by service, account or subscription, region or tag, across every connected cloud. Filter by cloud, switch between unblended and amortized cost, and open the two-dimensional view to see, for example, service by region.

What to expect: Each line carries a cloud badge. Copy link puts your exact view in the address bar so a colleague opens the same thing, and CSV exports what you see.

Forecasting open this page

Month-end and next-month projections with a confidence band, shown against your budget, plus a what-if simulator for adding instances, databases, load balancers or Lambda usage.

What to expect: Projections use your stored spend, so they improve as history accumulates.

Reports open this page

Ready-made reports (board pack, multi-cloud spend, Kubernetes showback and others) and a custom report builder with two grouping dimensions and any date range.

What to expect: Short ranges such as last month show day by day; longer ranges show month by month. Export to Excel or CSV, or copy a link to the configured report.

Kubernetes Costs open this page

Cost of your clusters allocated by namespace, workload (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets and Jobs), pod, cluster or label, with tabs for cluster assets, cost by type, rightsizing, network costs, carbon and cluster health.

What to expect: Needs the CostGlass agent in each cluster (see Kubernetes cost allocation). The Health and Carbon tabs need the full manifest; they stay empty rather than guessed if it is not applied.

Unit Economics open this page

Cloud cost per unit of business output, such as per million API requests or per active user, with the trend over time.

What to expect: You supply the business metric; CostGlass supplies the cost side.

SaaS & AI Spend open this page

Every connected vendor (OpenAI, Anthropic, Datadog, Snowflake) with its 30-day spend, a stacked run-rate chart, seat activity and Batch API adoption.

What to expect: Connect Provider adds a vendor. Each card has its own Sync button; data refreshes every six hours.

Allocation & governance

Tag Explorer open this page

Spend broken down by any cost-allocation tag you have, with the untagged remainder called out.

What to expect: Only tags activated for cost allocation in your cloud appear.

Tag Compliance open this page

Which resources are missing the tags your policy requires, with a compliance score and a fix script.

What to expect: Compliance is measured against the mandatory tags you set.

Virtual Tagging open this page

Allocate spend to teams, products or cost centres with rules instead of cloud tags, so untagged spend can still be attributed.

What to expect: Rules apply in priority order to billed cost lines; a rule that cannot be evaluated on billed data is listed, not guessed.

Budgets open this page

Monthly budgets for a cloud, an account or subscription, a service or a Kubernetes cluster, with progress, projected overrun and alert thresholds.

What to expect: Kubernetes budgets are judged on the projected month because cluster data is a run-rate, not a month-to-date total.

Savings

Savings open this page

Recommendations found in your own data, each tagged with how its figure was reached (measured, list price, the cloud's own estimate, or our stated estimate). The headline total counts overlapping recommendations once, so it can never exceed your bill.

What to expect: CostGlass never changes your cloud for you here: Show steps lists what to do in your cloud console, and you mark it done afterwards. Run Full Scan refreshes the list.

Rightsizing open this page

Instances and databases that look larger than they need to be, with a suggested size and the monthly saving.

What to expect: Shows an empty state until compute and database resources have been discovered in a connected account.

Commitments open this page

How much of your eligible spend is covered by Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and CUDs across all clouds, how well they are used, what is about to expire and ROI purchase simulator recommendations.

What to expect: Read-only: CostGlass never buys a commitment. Empty until cloud accounts have synced.

Instance Scheduler open this page

Business-hours start and stop schedules for non-production machines, with a savings preview before you turn anything on.

What to expect: This is the one feature that can change your cloud, and only for the machines you schedule, using permissions you granted when you ticked it.

Standards

FOCUS 1.0 open this page

Your spend normalised to the open FOCUS 1.0 cost specification, so every provider has the same columns, with an export.

What to expect: Useful if you feed costs into another tool or a data warehouse.

CUR Export open this page

The status of your AWS Cost and Usage Report pipeline: whether the stack is deployed, the bucket is being delivered to, and when the last file was read.

What to expect: The first delivery from AWS can take up to 24 hours.

Operations

Overview open this page

The operations cockpit: service health, discovered cloud resources, open incidents and open requests to your engineers.

What to expect: Counts reflect only what you have connected or registered.

Requests open this page

Ask the engineers behind your plan for help (a cost investigation, a rightsizing change, an infrastructure task) and follow its progress.

What to expect: Available on the Growth plan and above.

Uptime open this page

Endpoint checks with response time, status history and SSL expiry, plus alert rules by category such as production, staging and sandbox.

What to expect: Add the URLs to monitor; alerts go to the channels you choose.

Cloud Resources open this page

One inventory of everything found across your clouds and clusters: virtual machines, databases, storage, networking and, under Containers, your Kubernetes workloads and ECS services.

What to expect: Filters, search and sort are saved in the address bar, so you can share a filtered view. Export downloads everything matching your filters as CSV or Excel.

Incidents open this page

Production incidents with severity, status and time to resolve.

What to expect: Empty means no incidents have been raised.

Anomalies open this page

Spending that jumped above what that service normally costs, with how much extra it is costing per day, the likely cause and a written explanation.

What to expect: Acknowledge, snooze or resolve each one. Notification rules by amount decide who is told, and how.

Settings

Cloud Accounts open this page

Everything you have connected, grouped by hyperscaler, AI and SaaS, Kubernetes and other clouds, with a tab for connecting each provider.

What to expect: This is where the step-by-step connection guides in this documentation take place.

Organisation open this page

Group your accounts into a tree (business units, teams, environments) and give people access to only their part of it.

What to expect: Rollups, budgets and reports respect the part of the tree a user can see.

Billing & Plans open this page

Your plan, payment method, invoices and receipts, and upgrade options.

What to expect: Plan limits, such as how many cloud connections you can have, are shown here.

Data Residency open this page

Where your data is processed, how long cost records are kept, and a button to purge older records now.

What to expect: Retention is enforced automatically each day.

SAML SSO open this page

Connect your own identity provider (Okta, Entra ID, OneLogin and others) so your team signs in with company credentials.

What to expect: Included on the Scale and Enterprise plans. People must be invited first; single sign-on does not create users on its own.

Team open this page

Invite colleagues and set their role (owner, admin or member).

What to expect: An invitation email carries a temporary password, or they can sign in with Google.

My Profile open this page

Your own name, contact details, role and sign-in method.

Notifications open this page

The weekly spend summary: who gets it, by email, Slack or Teams, with a live preview.

Alert Rules open this page

Spend threshold, budget and anomaly alerts, their channels, and the history of what was sent.

All Documentation Guides

Welcome to CostGlass — What CostGlass does, who it is for, how your data gets in, the plans and regions, and a plain-English glossary.
Quickstart: your first hour — Sign up, connect a first cloud, invite your team, set a budget and turn on anomaly alerts, with a first-week checklist.
Finding your way around — 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 Resources — The multi-cloud inventory: filters, search, categories, estimated cost, terminated resources and CSV or Excel export.
Uptime, incidents & support requests — Monitor public endpoints, route alerts, see incidents and raise requests to CostGlass engineers.
How CostGlass accesses your data — 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.
Connecting your clouds: overview — Every cloud and service you can connect, how each one connects, what access it needs, how long data takes and your plan limits.
Connect AWS (CloudFormation) — Deploy the generated CloudFormation template, choose organization or single account and optional features, then verify.
Connect AWS with Terraform instead of CloudFormation — A Terraform equivalent of the generated AWS template, with an Organization variant and a way to compare it to the wizard.
Connect Azure — Admin consent for the CostGlass application, Reader and Cost Management Reader roles, management group or subscription scope, and a Terraform version.
Connect Google Cloud — Enable the FOCUS BigQuery export, run the IAM grants CostGlass prints, verify, and a Terraform version.
Managing connected accounts — The Cloud Accounts page: statuses, syncing, errors, naming, disconnecting, and the FOCUS 1.0 and CUR Export pages.
Connect Oracle Cloud (OCI) — Give CostGlass read-only access to Oracle Cost and Usage Reports with a Resource Manager stack or your own Terraform.
Connect Alibaba Cloud — Connect Alibaba Cloud through Bill Subscription files in OSS and a read-only RAM role created by a ROS template.
Connect DigitalOcean — Connect DigitalOcean accounts with a read-only personal access token and see invoices by month.
Connect Akamai / Linode — Connect Linode (Akamai Connected Cloud) accounts with an account read-only token.
Connect Cloudflare — Connect Cloudflare usage-based charges with a Billing Read account token and see credits and unpaid debt.
Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Datadog and Snowflake — Connect AI and software vendors with admin keys or a Snowflake key pair so their spend sits beside your cloud costs.
Cost Explorer — Slice, compare and drill into spend across every connected cloud: group by, filters, charts, overlays, details, AI, links and export.
Saved views, saved filters & scheduled emails — Keep, share and email the Cost Explorer views you use often, and reuse include/exclude filters across views and reports.
Reports — Build, compare, export, save and schedule spend reports, with presets, Excel, CSV and PDF exports.
SaaS & AI Spend — Spend and token analytics for OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Datadog, Snowflake and cloud AI services.
Unit Economics — Cost per business unit: define metrics, send volumes, set targets and alerts.
Connect a Kubernetes cluster — Install OpenCost and the CostGlass exporter in your cluster so cost data is pushed to CostGlass every 15 minutes.
Kubernetes Costs page — Understand cluster, namespace, workload and pod costs, idle capacity, rightsizing, carbon and health.
Tagging strategy: getting the most from tags — 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 Compliance — Define required AWS tags, measure compliance, and fix missing tags with Quick Tag, batch apply or a CLI script.
Virtual tagging — Allocate spend by team, product or environment with rules, no cloud changes, with a rule builder and CostGlass AI.
Forecasting — 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.
Anomaly detection — How CostGlass finds unusual daily cost, how to tune it, explain it and be notified.
Cost alerts — Alert when spend rises versus the previous day, week, month or quarter.
All alert and notification types — A comparison of every alert and notification in CostGlass, with channel setup and testing.
Issues & annotations — Dated notes on spend, and a lightweight issue tracker for cost work with Jira push.
Savings playbook — A prioritised, step-by-step programme for reducing your cloud bill, with a 30/60/90-day plan.
Savings recommendations — How the Savings page finds, prices and tracks savings for every connected cloud and platform.
Rightsizing — Find servers and databases that are too big, or too small, using real CPU and memory measurements.
Commitments: Savings Plans & Reserved Instances — 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.
Giving your team access — Invite people, choose Owner, Admin or Member roles, remove users and limit what they see.
Setting up your organisation hierarchy — Build a tree of nodes, place cloud accounts by hand, rule or CSV, and scope people to a branch.
Designing your hierarchy (with enterprise examples) — 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 keys & AI assistants (MCP) — Create API keys and connect Claude Desktop, Cursor or Claude Code to your cost data.
Audit log — See who changed what and when, with before and after values, kept for 24 months.
Data residency & retention — Your fixed region, how long cost history is kept, purge now and the data handling summary.
Notification settings, Jira & chat — Weekly spend summary, Slack and Teams webhooks, and connecting Jira Cloud.
Troubleshooting & Common Setup Fixes — Solutions for common cloud connection and ingestion issues across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, and SSO.