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Monitoring and optimizing cloud spending and resource utilization can help to reduce costs and improve efficiency. By tracking and analyzing cloud usage, you can identify areas where you are overspending or underutilizing the resources
Why this matters: cost data by itself doesn't tell you where to look — a dashboard organizes it into the specific views (by cost, by resource, by SaaS provider, by datacenter, by AI usage) that let you actually spot the overspending or underutilization worth acting on, without manually cross-referencing raw numbers yourself.
This shows up differently depending on your role:
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FinOps managers use these dashboards as their daily working views — Cost for spend, Resources for utilization, and the provider-specific dashboards (SaaS, Datacenter, Kubernetes, GenAI) when digging into one area.
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Engineering leads use the Resources and Kubernetes dashboards to see utilization and efficiency for the infrastructure their team owns, not just its cost.
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Finance leaders use the Cost and SaaS dashboards to reconcile spend across every source before it rolls up into a report.