Documentation

Everything you need to get started with CostBeacon and optimize your Azure costs.

Getting Started

Set up your CostBeacon account and connect your first Azure subscription in minutes.

Step-by-step guide to creating a service principal and granting CostBeacon read access.

Learn how CostBeacon analyzes your resources with 47 optimization rules.

24 report types in PDF and JSON — generate on-demand or schedule automated delivery.

Set spending thresholds, get alerts, and forecast budget overruns before month end.

Automatic detection of cost spikes with severity classification and real-time alerts.

Interactive drill-down and visual flow diagrams to understand where your money goes.

Track Azure OpenAI, GPU compute, OpenAI, and Anthropic costs in a unified view.

Connect OpenAI and Anthropic API keys to track third-party AI costs.

Execute optimizations directly — resize VMs, deallocate resources, change tiers.

Map costs to business units, teams, and projects with showback and chargeback reports.

Track cost per customer, per transaction, or per any business metric.

Allocate costs without modifying Azure tags using pattern-based rules.

Block deployments exceeding cost thresholds via CI/CD pipeline integration.

FinOps maturity scoring per subscription — auto-calculated every 24 hours.

Compare plans and understand which features are available on each tier.

Answers to frequently asked questions about CostBeacon.