Shipped: Follow any cost question without switching tools

Cost monitoring, exploration, investigation, and reporting used to live in separate places, so following a single cost question meant hopping between tools.

Why this matters

A budget trends toward its threshold. You drill into the spend behind it, check whether usage drove the change, then build a view to show your stakeholders, with one workflow, one set of dimensions, no exports and no tool-switching. The full lifecycle of a cost question, from the first alert to the answer you share, now lives in one place.

A practical example: Your AWS EC2 budget is tracking toward its monthly threshold. An anomaly alert fires: CloudZero detected spend 40% above expected across your production account. You drill into Explorer, filter to that account, and see the spike down to the hour it started. You trace it to a single service, confirm it wasn’t a planned deployment, and create a Jira ticket directly from the anomaly detail page.

Then you build a View with those filters pre-populated and share it with your team. There’s one workflow, one set of dimensions, from alert to answer to action without switching tabs.

What we built

The new CloudZero experience brings Explorer, Anomalies, Analytics, and Budgets into one workspace, on the same cost data and the same dimensions.

Explorer lets you filter and group your cloud bill by any Dimension, by service, team, account, or custom cost dimension, and see how spend changed compared to the prior period.

Anomaly Detection automatically monitors every View and flags spend that deviates from historical trends, down to an hourly granularity.

Budgets track planned spend limits against a View’s actual costs and alert your team at configurable thresholds before you blow past them.

Analytics surfaces dashboards and usage data you build to share cost context with stakeholders.

Monitor spend, investigate what moved it, track it against plan, and build the views you share with stakeholders, all without leaving.

Read more in CloudZero documentation.

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