Cloud Cost Management
Track entered cloud spend and budgets using the accounting currency and saved exchange rates.
Cloud Cost Management is available on Enterprise. It tracks manually entered account/service spend; adding an account does not connect to a provider or import its bills automatically.
Add accounts and spend
- Open Monitoring > Cloud Cost.
- Choose Add Account, enter its name, provider, currency and optional monthly budget.
- On the account choose + Entry, select a month and enter the service and cost in the account's currency.
- Use View entries to review recorded costs. Users with delete permission can remove an incorrect entry.
Errors remain visible and a failed save does not close the form as though it succeeded.
Understand the totals
Account entry values remain in their original currency. Dashboard totals use the default accounting entity's base currency (GBP when none is configured). Budgets use the current rate; historical spend uses the most recent saved rate on or before that month's end. Current-month spend uses the most recent rate available today.
Manage rates in Accounting > Exchange Rates. Missing rates produce an explicit warning and those amounts are excluded. Treat totals as incomplete until every warning is resolved. Budget utilization is hidden while a conversion warning is present.
The chart shows six distinct calendar months. Inactive accounts are excluded from the dashboard.
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