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Cost Control & Insights

Overview

Managing infrastructure costs efficiently is critical for any SaaS business. Cost Control & Insights provides complete visibility and control over your infrastructure and tenant costs across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, allowing you to analyze, optimize, and reduce expenses while maintaining performance and scalability.

Multi-Cloud Cost Tracking

Omnistrate tracks infrastructure costs across all supported cloud providers:

Cloud Provider Cost Tracking Granularity
✅ AWS Supported Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource
✅ Azure Supported Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource
✅ GCP Supported Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource
✅ OCI Supported Per-environment, per-deployment, per-resource

Cost data is collected automatically from each cloud provider and aggregated into a unified view, regardless of whether you deploy in your own cloud (BYOC) or use Omnistrate-hosted infrastructure.

Accessing Cost Insights

You can access cost insights from the Omnistrate console:

  1. Navigate to FinOps > Cost Insights in the left sidebar.
  2. Select the time range you want to analyze.
  3. Filter by environment, deployment, or resource to drill down into specific costs.

Cost Dashboard

The Cost Dashboard provides a visual, real-time overview of your infrastructure spending. Access the dashboard from FinOps > Cost Insights in the Omnistrate console.

Dashboard views

The Cost Dashboard includes the following views:

  • Overview: A high-level summary of total infrastructure costs across all cloud providers, with trend indicators showing month-over-month changes.
  • By cloud provider: A breakdown of costs per cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), allowing you to compare spending across clouds.
  • By environment: Compare costs across your environments (development, staging, production) to identify opportunities for optimization.
  • By tenant: Attribute costs to individual customers to understand per-tenant margins and identify your most resource-intensive workloads.

Time range and filtering

  • Select a time range (last 7 days, last 30 days, last 90 days, or a custom range) to analyze spending trends.
  • Filter by environment, deployment, resource type, or cloud provider to drill down into specific cost areas.
  • Export cost data for further analysis or integration with external FinOps tools.

The dashboard surfaces cost trends automatically:

  • Spending anomalies: Unexpected cost spikes are highlighted so you can investigate and take action.
  • Growth trends: Track how costs are changing over time to forecast future spending.
  • Budget tracking: Monitor spending against budgets to stay within financial targets.

Cost Attribution

Use infrastructure tags to categorize and analyze spending across projects, teams, and tenants:

  • Per-environment costs: Compare spending across development, staging, and production environments.
  • Per-deployment costs: Track costs for individual deployments to identify the most expensive workloads.
  • Per-resource costs: Break down costs by compute, storage, and networking for each resource.
  • Per-tenant costs: Attribute infrastructure costs to individual customers for accurate cost allocation and margin analysis.

Optimization Strategies

Omnistrate provides several built-in mechanisms to reduce infrastructure costs:

Spot and reserved instances

Leverage discounted compute pricing from cloud providers:

  • Spot instances: Use spare cloud capacity at significantly reduced rates for fault-tolerant workloads.
  • Reserved instances: Commit to longer-term usage for predictable workloads and receive discounted pricing.

Auto-scaling and auto-stop

Dynamically adjust resources based on real-time demand:

  • Auto-scaling: Automatically scale resources up or down based on CPU, memory, or custom metrics using autoscaling.
  • Auto-stop: Automatically stop idle deployments to eliminate costs from unused resources.

Multi-tenancy

Maximize infrastructure efficiency through built-in multi-tenancy support:

  • Share underlying infrastructure across multiple tenants to reduce per-customer costs.
  • Use Omnistrate's tenancy models to balance isolation requirements with cost efficiency.

Deploy in your cloud

Deploy in your own cloud account or your customer's cloud account to:

  • Use existing cloud credits and committed-use discounts.
  • Avoid data transfer costs between providers.
  • Take advantage of negotiated enterprise pricing.