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Cost Visibility

Understand where your Azure spend is going, compare periods, and break costs down by the dimensions that matter to your organisation.

Cirrova gives you four main surfaces for exploring cost. Each one answers a different kind of question — start with the Dashboard for the at-a-glance view, then drill in when something needs investigation. All views share the same underlying data, so figures are consistent no matter how you navigate in.

Reading the Dashboard

Your home view — summary tiles, daily and monthly spend charts, top-cost breakdowns, and how to read the month-end forecast.

Cost Explorer

Ad-hoc analysis with flexible date ranges, subscription filtering, and cross-dimensional breakdowns.

Subscriptions, Resource Groups & Resources

Structured navigation through your Azure hierarchy — filter, search, and drill into individual resources to see cost alongside performance metrics.

Cost Centres & tag-based reporting

Group spend by a configured cost-centre tag for chargeback or showback, and surface resources that aren't tagged correctly.

Which view should I use?

If you want to…	Use…
See how you're tracking against this month's forecast	Dashboard
Compare spend across arbitrary date ranges	Cost Explorer
Find the single most expensive resource in a subscription	Resources, sorted by 30-day cost
Break costs down by team, project, or environment	Cost Centres
Find resources missing a required tag	Resources (Tag key filter + “Untagged”) or Cost Centres
Check performance metrics alongside cost for a specific resource	Resources → resource detail

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