Cost Center
The consolidated cost analysis workspace — seven analytical lenses over one normalised ledger.
At a glance
| Route | /cost-center with seven sub-routes |
| Group | Analyze |
| Page permission | intelligence |
What it is
The consolidated cost analysis workspace. Seven sub-modules cover current spend, historical movement, project-level breakdown, commitment advice, savings tracking, rightsizing, and enterprise reporting — unified under one navigation parent.
Who it is for
FinOps analysts and finance business partners doing detailed cost work, and engineering managers investigating their own team's spend.
How it works
Each sub-module is a distinct analytical lens over the same normalised ledger.
Features
- Seven analytical lenses over one normalised ledger, unified under a single navigation parent
- Present-period posture with anomalies, cost drivers, and budget pressure
- Historical movement with stacked service breakdown and per-service contribution to change
- Saveable history presets for slices you review regularly
- Spend attribution by cloud project, account, subscription, or OCI compartment
- Commitment recommendations — RI, Savings Plan, and CUD — computed from real usage
- Identified versus realised savings, with the optimisation backlog in financial terms
- A consolidated rightsizing queue aggregated from multiple recommendation sources
- Dashboard definitions, report schedules, and external share links
- Chargeback and showback allocation exports for finance systems
The seven sub-modules
| Sub-module | Route | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Current Cost | /cost-center/current-cost | Present spend posture with anomalies, cost drivers, and budget pressure |
| Cost History | /cost-center/cost-history | Spend movement over time, stacked service breakdown, per-service contribution to change, saveable presets |
| By Project | /cost-center/by-project | Spend by cloud project, account, subscription, or OCI compartment across all four providers |
| Commitment Advisor | /cost-center/commitment-advisor | RI, Savings Plan, and CUD recommendations computed from real historical usage |
| Savings | /cost-center/savings | Identified versus realised savings, with the optimisation backlog in financial terms |
| Rightsizing | /cost-center/rightsizing | The rightsizing queue, aggregated from multiple sources including Compute Optimizer and the waste scan |
| Enterprise Ops | /cost-center/enterprise-ops | Dashboard definitions, report schedules, external share links, chargeback and showback allocation exports |
How to use it
Start in Current Cost
Understand the present period and whether anomalies are present.
Move to Cost History
See whether the current position is a trend or an outlier, and which services drove the change.
Use By Project to attribute spend
To the owning account, subscription, or compartment. This is the first step in making cost someone's responsibility.
Review Commitment Advisor quarterly
Coverage recommendations are computed from real usage, so they change as the estate changes. Quarterly is about the right cadence.
Track Savings monthly
Watch the gap between identified and realised.
A persistent gap indicates an execution bottleneck, not a detection problem. The fix is in Approvals or Optimization, not in more scanning.
Work the Rightsizing queue
It consolidates recommendations that would otherwise be scattered across several provider consoles.
Configure Enterprise Ops once
Define the dashboards leadership needs, schedule their delivery, and set up allocation exports for finance. Then leave it alone.
Why it matters
Cost analysis normally requires assembling data from several provider consoles and reconciling it manually — which is slow enough that it happens monthly at best.
Consolidating seven analytical lenses over one normalised ledger makes it a daily activity.
And the identified-versus-realised savings view provides the honest accountability measure that most FinOps programmes lack.
Connects to
- Mirrors the
/reports/costsub-routes in Reports - Feeds Reports and CEO View
- Commitment recommendations execute through the negotiator in Intelligence
- Allocation depends on Cost Allocation and Ownership
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