CloudForecast Documentation
Welcome to the CloudForecast documentation. Find guides for setting up your account, understanding features, and connecting your favorite tools.
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Getting Started
Section titled “Getting Started”New to CloudForecast? Start here.
- Setup Guide
- Signing Up
- Connecting Your AWS Account
- Connecting Your Azure Account
- Connecting Your Azure CSP Account
- Connecting Databricks
- Setting Up EKS & ECS Container Costs
- Setting Up ZeroWaste
Features
Section titled “Features”Learn what CloudForecast can do for your team.
| Feature | Description | FinOps Framework |
|---|---|---|
| Cost Groups | Define scoped views of your cloud spend that power all reports, alerts, and dashboards. | Allocation |
| Cost Detective | Interactively drill into cost spikes and anomalies across all your connected data sources. | Anomaly Management |
| Cost Increase Alerts | Automatically detect and notify your team the moment cloud spend rises unexpectedly. | Anomaly Management |
| Cost Increase Investigation | Get an auto-generated breakdown of what drove a cost spike, without writing a single query. | Anomaly Management |
| ZeroWaste | Surface actionable rightsizing and waste-reduction recommendations across your AWS environment. | Usage Optimization |
| RI & SP Inventory | Track every Reserved Instance and Savings Plan in one place with expiration alerts and utilization health. | Rate Optimization |
| RI & SP Usage Dashboard | Measure compute coverage, savings impact, and per-commitment utilization across your portfolio. | Rate Optimization |
| MAP Tracker | Monitor AWS Migration Acceleration Program credit consumption and spend targets throughout your migration. | Rate Optimization |
| AWS Marketplace Dashboard | Track upfront fees, monthly usage, and daily trends for all Marketplace subscriptions in one view. | Reporting & Analytics |
| Monthly Financial Report | Receive a structured Excel workbook each month with executive summaries, top movers, and service-level cost breakdowns. | Reporting & Analytics |
| Tagging Center | Define your tagging policy, measure compliance, and identify untagged resources dragging down cost attribution. | Allocation |
| EKS & ECS Container Cost Visibility | Attribute shared container costs down to the pod, namespace, and service level using AWS Split Cost Allocation Data. | Allocation |
| Databricks Cost Dashboard | Understand DBU costs by workspace, cluster, and owner alongside underlying cloud infrastructure spend. | Reporting & Analytics |
Integrations
Section titled “Integrations”Connect CloudForecast to the tools your team already uses.
- Slack — Receive daily cost reports and spend alerts directly in your Slack channels.
- Microsoft Teams — Deliver CloudForecast reports and alerts to a Teams channel via incoming webhook.
- Jira — Push ZeroWaste optimization recommendations directly into Jira issues for engineering follow-through.
- ProsperOps — See ProsperOps savings metrics alongside your AWS costs in Cost Group reports.
- Cortex — Surface CloudForecast Cost Group data inside Cortex so engineers see cloud costs next to their services.