Cost Management documentation

Microsoft Cost Management is a suite of FinOps tools that help organizations analyze, monitor and optimize their Microsoft Cloud costs.

Reporting + analytics

Overview

• Overview

Quickstart

• Start analyzing costs

How-To Guide

• Analyze unexpected costs
• Use Cost analysis for common tasks
• Connect with Power BI

Monitoring

How-To Guide

• Use cost alerts
• Create a budget
• Configure anomaly alerts
• Reservation utilization alerts
• Subscribe to scheduled alerts

Optimization

How-To Guide

• Act on recommendations
• Save with savings plans
• Save with reservations
• Manage Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL

Pricing + estimation

Reference

• Pricing calculator
• TCO calculator
• Azure Migrate

Cost allocation

How-To Guide

• Enable tag inheritance
• Split shared costs

Automation + extensibility

Overview

• Overview

How-To Guide

• Choose a cost details solution
• Automation for partners