Problem
Cost reporting was a manual process.
What it does
- Monthly report. Compares against prior months and breaks cost down by cost center, resource group, subscription and resource type, as a formatted Excel report with charts.
- Daily month-to-date report. Trend, end-of-month projection, top resource groups and resources, and a summary per cost center posted to Teams.
- Anomaly scoring per resource group, flagged at a score of 30 or more, from rules such as new spend after a zero baseline, spikes of at least 2x the average and sustained increases.
- An idempotent anomaly log that the monthly report reuses.
Result
- Replaces a manual monthly process and flags resources left running unnecessarily every day.