Cost Analytics

Cost Analytics gives you a structured view of where your cloud spend goes and where it is heading. Ask Alex in plain language and get attributed breakdowns, forecasts, and anomaly explanations drawn from live billing data. For analytics that correlate cost with infrastructure performance and health signals, see Infrastructure Analytics.

Cost attribution

Alex attributes cloud spend across multiple dimensions simultaneously:

Dimension	What it shows
Service	Spend by cloud service — EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, GKE, and more
Resource	Instance- or volume-level costs, API call charges, and data transfer fees
Tag	Costs grouped by environment, team, project, or any tag key you configure
Account	Per-account totals and cross-account comparisons in multi-account organizations
Provider	Normalized spend across AWS, GCP, and Azure with automatic currency conversion

Anomaly detection

Alex monitors your connected billing streams and surfaces unusual spending patterns automatically.

Type	What it detects
Spike	Day-over-day spend increase above your configured threshold
Sustained increase	Gradual upward trend exceeding the historical baseline
New service	First-time charges from a previously unused service
Resource explosion	Rapid increase in resource count without a matching deployment event

Configure alert thresholds and notification channels in Notifications.

Forecasting

Alex generates cost forecasts from your billing history. Available forecast horizons:

Horizon	Signal used
End-of-month	Current trajectory extrapolated from month-to-date spend
Quarterly	Seasonal trend analysis plus growth rate from prior quarters
Annual	Growth-adjusted projection against your configured budget target

Example prompts

@alex #dashboard current month cloud spending by service

@alex #dashboard compare production vs development costs over the last 90 days
@alex #dashboard multi-cloud spending — AWS vs GCP vs Azure this quarter

@alex what drove the cost increase last week?
@alex analyze the cost spike on March 3rd and identify the root cause

@alex forecast cloud spending for the next quarter
@alex compare projected end-of-month spend against quarterly budget

@alex #report export last quarter's costs by service and tag to CSV
@alex #report monthly cost allocation broken down by team tag

Savings tracking

Measure realized savings from implemented recommendations

Infrastructure Analytics

Correlate cost signals with performance, health, and utilization

Recommendations

Act on cost insights with AI-generated recommendations

Artifacts

Schedule dashboards and reports to regenerate on your cadence

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Example prompts

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