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Prompt templates
Why this matters: Mavvrik MCP is only as useful as the question you ask it — a vague prompt gets a vague answer, while a specific one (clear area, time period, grouping) gets something you can actually act on. This page is the shortcut to writing that specific prompt on the first try, instead of iterating your way there.
Mavvrik MCP works best when the question includes a clear area, time period, and level of detail. A useful prompt usually states what needs to be reviewed, the period to review, how the result should be grouped, and whether the answer should be summarized or shown as a table.
A simple prompt pattern is:
"Show [area] for [time period], grouped by [dimension], limited to [top N], with [summary/table/drivers]."
Example:
"What drove cloud spend last week? Show the top 5 services by cost increase and summarize the main drivers."
Cloud Cost Prompts
Use these prompts to review cloud spend and identify cost drivers.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review recent spend |
"Summarize cloud spend for the last 7 days." |
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Find top cost drivers |
"Show the top 5 services by cloud cost this month." |
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Compare spend by period |
"Compare cloud spend this week with the previous week and show the largest changes." |
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Review a specific service |
"Show EKS spend for the last 7 days and identify the main cost drivers." |
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Review by account or scope |
"Show cloud spend by account for this month and highlight the top 5 accounts." |
Cost Variance Prompts
Use these prompts to understand why spend changed between two periods.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Explain a cost increase |
"Why did cloud spend increase compared with the previous week?" |
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Investigate a specific service |
"Why did EKS spend increase compared with the previous week?" |
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Identify largest movers |
"Show the top cost variances from the last 7 days compared with the previous 7 days." |
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Summarize positive and negative changes |
"Summarize the biggest cost increases and decreases this month compared with last month." |
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Focus on likely drivers |
"Show the services that contributed most to the cost increase last week." |
Recommendation Prompts
Use these prompts to review available savings opportunities.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
|---|---|
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Review open recommendations |
"What savings recommendations are currently open?" |
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Prioritize recommendations |
"Show the top savings recommendations by estimated savings." |
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Focus on a service |
"Show open recommendations related to EKS." |
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Summarize action areas |
"Summarize the main optimization opportunities available right now." |
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Compare recommendation types |
"Group open savings recommendations by type and show the estimated savings for each group." |
Anomaly Prompts
Use these prompts to review unusual or unexpected cost patterns.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
|---|---|
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Review recent anomalies |
"Are there any cost anomalies in the last 7 days?" |
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Investigate a specific anomaly |
"Explain the largest cost anomaly from last week." |
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Focus by service |
"Show cost anomalies for EKS in the last 14 days." |
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Prioritize investigation |
"List the most important anomalies from the last 7 days and explain why they matter." |
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Summarize anomaly impact |
"Summarize recent anomalies and show their estimated cost impact." |
Cloud Resource Prompts
Use these prompts to review cloud inventory and resource-level details.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
|---|---|
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Review resources |
"Show cloud resources for AWS this month." |
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Find resources by provider |
"List Azure resources grouped by resource type." |
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Review resource ownership |
"Show resources by account and highlight the top resource types." |
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Focus on a resource type |
"Show running virtual machines and group them by account." |
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Review resource details |
"Show resource-level details for resources with high monthly cost." |
GenAI Cost Prompts
Use these prompts to review GenAI Platform Cost and AI Assist Cost.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review GenAI spend |
"Summarize GenAI cost for the current month." |
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Review platform cost |
"Show GenAI platform cost for the last 30 days by provider." |
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Review AI Assist cost |
"Show AI Assist cost for this month grouped by product." |
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Find top models |
"Show the top 5 GenAI models by cost this month." |
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Review AI usage |
"Summarize token usage and cost for GenAI services this month." |
Cloud Commitment Prompts
Use these prompts to review commitments, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and coverage.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review commitments |
"Summarize current cloud commitments." |
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Review RI coverage |
"Show Reserved Instance coverage by account." |
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Review SP coverage |
"Show Savings Plan coverage for this month." |
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Find commitment gaps |
"Identify areas with low commitment coverage." |
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Review commitment utilization |
"Summarize RI and SP utilization for the current month." |
Kubernetes Prompts
Use these prompts to review Kubernetes cost, cloud cost, efficiency, and utilization.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
|---|---|
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Review K8s cost |
"Summarize Kubernetes cost for the last 7 days." |
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Review K8s cloud cost |
"Show K8s cloud cost by cluster for this month." |
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Review efficiency |
"Show Kubernetes efficiency by cluster for the current month." |
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Review utilization |
"Show CPU and memory utilization for Kubernetes workloads." |
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Focus by namespace |
"Show Kubernetes cost by namespace for the last 14 days." |
SaaS Cost Prompts
Use these prompts to review SaaS spend and usage.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review SaaS spend |
"Summarize SaaS cost for this month." |
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Find top SaaS products |
"Show the top SaaS products by cost this month." |
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Review usage |
"Show SaaS usage and cost by product." |
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Compare SaaS spend |
"Compare SaaS cost this month with last month." |
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Review imported data |
"Show SaaS cost from connected SaaS sources for the current month." |
Tag Explorer Prompts
Use these prompts to review tag coverage, compliance, and custom tag policies.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review tag coverage |
"Show tag coverage for cloud resources this month." |
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Review custom tag policy |
"Show compliance for the custom tag policy Owner and Environment." |
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Find non-compliant resources |
"List resources that are non-compliant with required tag policies." |
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Review untagged resources |
"Show resources without required tags." |
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Summarize tag compliance |
"Summarize tag compliance by account and policy." |
Cost Allocation Prompts
Use these prompts to review allocated costs across business segments and understand how shared or direct costs are distributed.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review allocation by segment |
"Show allocated cost by business segment for this month." |
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Review a specific allocation rule |
"Show the cost breakdown for the Engineering allocation rule." |
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Compare shared vs. direct cost |
"Show how much of this month's cost is shared versus directly allocated." |
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Find largest allocated segments |
"Show the top 5 segments by allocated cost this month." |
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Review allocation structure |
"List the current cost allocation rules and what each one covers." |
Budget Prompts
Use these prompts to review budget definitions and spend against budget.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
|---|---|
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Review budget status |
"Show current spend against budget for this month." |
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Find budgets at risk |
"Which budgets are closest to being exceeded this month?" |
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Review a specific budget |
"Show utilization for the Engineering budget this month." |
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Compare budget periods |
"Compare budget utilization this month with last month." |
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List all budgets |
"List all budgets and their current utilization." |
Perspective Prompts
Use these prompts to review saved perspectives and what they're scoped to.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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List saved perspectives |
"List my saved perspectives." |
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Review a specific perspective's scope |
"What is the [perspective name] perspective scoped to?" |
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Use a perspective in a cost question |
"Show cloud spend for the [perspective name] perspective this month." |
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Find shared perspectives |
"Which perspectives have been shared with my team?" |
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Review perspective filters |
"Show the filters applied to the [perspective name] perspective." |
Team Prompts
Use these prompts to review team structure and membership.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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List teams |
"List all teams in this tenant." |
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Review team membership |
"Who is on the Engineering team?" |
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Find a user's team |
"Which team is [user name] part of?" |
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Review team account access |
"What accounts does the Engineering team have access to?" |
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Compare team sizes |
"Show the number of users on each team." |
User Prompts
Use these prompts to review user accounts, roles, and status.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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List users |
"List all users in this tenant." |
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Review a user's role |
"What role does [user name] have?" |
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Find users by role |
"List all users with the Administrator role." |
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Review pending users |
"Show users with a pending status." |
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Review a user's access |
"What accounts and teams does [user name] have access to?" |
Cloud Account Prompts
Use these prompts to review connected cloud provider accounts and their connection status.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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List connected cloud accounts |
"List all connected cloud accounts." |
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Check connection status |
"Are any cloud accounts showing as inactive or disconnected?" |
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Filter by provider |
"Show all connected AWS billing accounts." |
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Review a specific account |
"What is the connection status of [account name]?" |
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Count accounts by provider |
"How many cloud accounts are connected, broken down by provider?" |
Usage Account Prompts
Use these prompts to review the usage/sub-account inventory under connected cloud accounts.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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List usage accounts |
"List usage accounts under [billing account name]." |
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Check usage account status |
"Are all usage accounts under [billing account name] connected?" |
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Count usage accounts |
"How many usage accounts are onboarded for AWS?" |
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Review a specific usage account |
"What is the status of usage account [account name]?" |
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Find recently added accounts |
"Show usage accounts onboarded in the last 30 days." |
AI Account Prompts
Use these prompts to review connected GenAI provider accounts and the models available under each.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
|---|---|
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List connected AI accounts |
"List all connected GenAI provider accounts." |
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Review available models |
"What models are available under [provider name]?" |
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Check connection status |
"Are any AI provider accounts disconnected?" |
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Filter by provider |
"Show all connected OpenAI accounts." |
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Review a specific AI account |
"What is the status of the [account name] AI account?" |
SaaS Account Prompts
Use these prompts to review connected SaaS integrations and their connection status.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
|---|---|
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List connected SaaS accounts |
"List all connected SaaS integrations." |
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Check connection status |
"Are any SaaS integrations showing as disconnected?" |
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Review a specific integration |
"What is the connection status of [SaaS product name]?" |
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Count SaaS accounts |
"How many SaaS accounts are currently connected?" |
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Find recently connected accounts |
"Show SaaS accounts connected in the last 30 days." |
Agentic Task Prompts
Use these prompts to review agentic task activity recorded for your tenant.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review recent agentic activity |
"Summarize agentic task activity for the last 7 days." |
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Find highest-cost tasks |
"Show the top 5 agentic tasks by cost this month." |
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Review tasks by model |
"Show agentic task activity grouped by model." |
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Review task volume |
"How many agentic tasks were run in the last 7 days?" |
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Investigate a cost spike |
"Did agentic task activity increase in the last 7 days compared with the previous week?" |
Agentic Pricing Prompts
Use these prompts to review available AI providers and models used for agentic cost pricing.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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List available providers |
"List the AI providers available for agentic cost pricing." |
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Review model pricing |
"Show the pricing for [model name]." |
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Compare model pricing |
"Compare pricing across the available models for [provider name]." |
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Review pricing by provider |
"Show all models and pricing available under [provider name]." |
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Find lowest-cost model |
"Which available model has the lowest cost per token?" |
Agentic Price Rule Prompts
Use these prompts to review custom markup or pricing rules applied to agentic costs.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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List price rules |
"List the custom agentic price rules configured for this tenant." |
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Review a specific rule |
"What markup does the [rule name] price rule apply?" |
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Review rule scope |
"Which models or providers does the [rule name] price rule apply to?" |
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Find rules by markup |
"Show price rules with a markup greater than 10%." |
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Review impact of a rule |
"How much has the [rule name] price rule added to agentic cost this month?" |
Account & Integration Settings Prompts
Use these prompts to review tenant and personal configuration settings, and the connection status of integrations.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Review tenant settings |
"Show the current tenant configuration settings." |
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Review integration status |
"Are all configured integrations (Slack, Teams, Jira) connected?" |
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Review a specific integration |
"What is the connection status of the Slack integration?" |
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Review personal settings |
"Show my personal notification settings." |
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Find disconnected integrations |
"List any integrations that are currently disconnected." |
Partner Prompts
If you manage multiple customer (child) tenants, these prompts help you move between a single tenant's data and your rolled-up portfolio view. See Using MCP Across Multiple Tenants (Partners) for how tenant scoping works.
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Use case |
Prompt example |
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Discover accessible tenants |
"What tenants do I have access to?" |
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Query a specific tenant |
"What's the total cost for [tenant name] this month?" |
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Query your own rolled-up view |
"What's my total cloud spend across all my tenants this month?" |
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Compare tenants |
"Compare cost across my child tenants this month and show which grew the most." |
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Check anomalies for one tenant |
"Are there any cost anomalies for [tenant name] in the last 7 days?" |
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Review recommendations for one tenant |
"What savings recommendations are open for [tenant name]?" |
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Rank tenants by a metric |
"Rank my tenants by cloud spend this month, highest to lowest." |
Naming the tenant scopes the answer to that customer specifically. Leaving it out returns your own aggregated portfolio view. If you're not sure of a tenant's exact name, start with "What tenants do I have access to?" and use the name it returns.
Follow-up Prompts
Follow-up prompts are useful after an initial answer. They help narrow the analysis without starting over.
Examples:
"Break that down by service."
"Show only the top 5 drivers."
"Compare the same view with the previous week."
"Focus only on EKS."
"Summarize this as three key findings."
"Show the recommendations related to these cost drivers."
"Group this by account."
"Show this as a table."
"Filter this to Azure only."
"Show related tag policy gaps."
Prompting Best Practices
Mavvrik MCP works best with focused questions. A prompt should be specific enough to guide the analysis, but not so broad that the response has to process too much data at once.
Start with a recent and bounded time period. For most investigation workflows, the last 7 days, last 14 days, current month, or previous month is a good starting point. For longer periods, ask for a summary first, then follow up with a narrower question.
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Instead of |
Use |
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"Analyze all cloud costs." |
"Summarize cloud spend for the last 7 days and show the top 5 services by cost." |
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"Why did cost change?" |
"Why did cloud spend increase last week compared with the previous week?" |
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"Show everything about anomalies." |
"Show the most important cost anomalies from the last 7 days." |
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"Analyze the last 12 months in detail." |
"Summarize cloud spend trends for the last 3 months, then show the top 5 changes." |
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"Show all Kubernetes data." |
"Summarize Kubernetes cost by cluster for the last 7 days." |
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"Check all tags." |
"Show resources that are non-compliant with the Owner tag policy." |
Specify the type of analysis needed. Mavvrik MCP can answer different kinds of questions, so the prompt should make the intent clear. For example, ask whether the goal is to review total spend, explain a variance, find anomalies, review recommendations, check commitment coverage, analyze Kubernetes efficiency, or review tag compliance.
Use:
"What drove cloud spend last week?"
Instead of:
"What happened with cloud cost?"
Ask for a useful level of detail. Top-N prompts usually work better than open-ended prompts because they keep the answer focused.
Use:
"Show the top 5 services by cost increase last week."
Instead of:
"Show everything that changed last week."
Add a dimension when needed. Questions are easier to answer when the prompt says how the result should be grouped or filtered. Useful dimensions may include service, account, region, provider, resource type, cluster, namespace, product, model, tag policy, or another available Mavvrik filter.
Examples:
"Show cloud spend by service for this month."
"Show cloud spend by account for the last 7 days."
"Show Kubernetes cost by namespace for this month."
"Show AI Assist cost by product and user."
"Show tag compliance by policy."
Avoid asking for too much depth in one prompt. Detailed multi-month breakdowns, large tables, and broad "analyze everything" requests can make responses harder to read and less useful. A better pattern is to start with a summary, then ask follow-up questions for the specific area that needs investigation.
Example investigation pattern:
"Summarize the biggest cloud cost changes this month."
"Which services contributed most to the increase?"
"Show recommendations related to those services."
Use clear comparison periods for variance questions. Cost variance prompts should define both periods when possible.
Use:
"Compare cloud spend for the last 7 days with the previous 7 days."
Instead of:
"Why did cost change recently?"
Keep the question inside current MCP coverage. See Introduction for the full, up-to-date list of supported areas.
Use:
"Show Kubernetes efficiency by cluster for this month."
Instead of:
"Create a full budget forecast and commit plan for next year."
Ask for the response format when it matters. A prompt can request a short summary, table, ranked list, or investigation-style explanation.
Examples:
"Show the answer as a table."
"Summarize in three bullets."
"Rank the drivers by cost impact."
"Explain the likely cause in plain language."
Prompt quality improves the usefulness of the response, but responses still depend on the data available in the connected Mavvrik tenant and the authenticated user's access. If the requested data is unavailable or outside the user's permissions, the response may be limited.