How to prepare FinOps dashboards and reports
When setting up a FinOps practice, there may be a point where we need to begin creating our own dashboards and reports. It can be difficult to choose whether we should use existing solutions or build our own. Both of these will have an impact on costs, either by paying for a product license or for the development that is required.
In this section, we will try to provide as many tools as possible to ease this process. We will describe some built-in resources that we could use from ground zero, as they are already available from cloud providers, and also give recommendations and ideas for the process of creation itself.
Existing dashboards and reports
The first recommendation we want to make is to start using what is already available, especially in the first steps of FinOps practices. As organizations mature, their needs can be also clearer and more defined, and it can be worth investing in developing a custom solution. Until that...
