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nOps Inform

nOps Inform gives you real-time visibility into costs and usage across teams, applications, and business units—without spreadsheets or manual exports. Get answers quickly, reduce billing surprises, and manage cloud spend with confidence.

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What Inform includes

  • Integrations — Connect AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more. nOps normalizes billing data into a unified view.
  • Explorer — Find exactly what you need with rich filters and dimensions built for finance and engineering. Surface hidden costs before they grow—including heat maps that compare spend across two dimensions at once.
  • Reports — Save Explorer views, share them with your team, and schedule email delivery with chart previews and PDF attachments.
  • Explorer Dashboard — Combine saved reports into dashboards your team can revisit anytime.
  • Insights — AI-assisted cost-saving recommendations and cost anomaly detection, with estimated savings, effort levels, root-cause detail, and step-by-step implementation guidance.
  • AI Optimization — Model usage, spend by platform, optimization recommendations, and anomalies for your AI services in one place.
  • MAP Manager — Track and tag resources for your AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) contracts so you capture every credit you’re owed.
  • Dashboard — Your home page: account-wide spend, pinned Canvas charts, and integration health.
Once you’re ready to set spend targets, see Budgets under Operate—budgets are built directly from your Explorer reports. Cost Allocation and shared-cost rules are also part of the broader Inform platform.

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Who Inform helps

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FinOps practitioners

  • Granular cost tracking — Drill into detailed data for optimization decisions.
  • Organized reporting — Use saved reports and dashboards for trend analysis and stakeholder updates.
  • Single view — See spend across clouds and connected services in one place.

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Engineers and managers

  • Operational decisions — Use actionable spend data to improve workflows and resource use.
  • Team visibility — Share reports and dashboards so each group sees relevant costs.
  • Faster answers — Start from Explorer or ask Clara in Canvas without exporting to spreadsheets.

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Get started

  1. Sign in at clara.nops.io/dashboard.
  2. Confirm integrations under Account Status, then open Manage Integrations in Settings if needed.
  3. Open Explorer to analyze spend by service, account, tag, or other dimensions.
  4. Save a report when you have a view worth keeping.
  5. Build an Explorer Dashboard from saved reports, or pin Canvas charts on your home Dashboard.

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Feature guide

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Typical workflows

Daily standup Start on the Dashboard All Spend section → open Explorer if something looks off → share a Report link with your team. Monthly business review Build an Explorer Dashboard with your standard reports → set scheduled emails for finance stakeholders. Investigate a spike Open Explorer → narrow date range → group by service or account → save as a Private report while you investigate → Share when ready. Optimize and set guardrails Check Insights for savings opportunities and cost anomalies → implement or override each recommendation → create a Budget from your key Explorer reports → add email alerts so you know before you go over.

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FAQs

Log in at clara.nops.io, connect your cloud accounts in Settings, then open Explorer from the Inform section of the sidebar. Data usually appears within 24 to 48 hours after integration is active.
Any Explorer view can become a report—cost trends, usage breakdowns by tag or service, and custom date ranges. Use nOps Global templates as starting points and duplicate them for your org.
Typically 24 to 48 hours after your integration is active. Spend reflects roughly a 24-hour delay aligned with Cost and Usage Report processing.
Reports are individual saved Explorer views. Explorer Dashboard displays multiple reports as widgets on one page for ongoing monitoring.
Pinned widgets can be chart widgets pinned from Canvas workspaces, or Shared/nOps Global Explorer reports pinned from Explorer’s Manage Reports. Use Explorer Dashboard if you want to combine several Explorer reports into one shared, multi-report layout instead.
Insights surfaces optimization recommendations and cost anomalies independently of Explorer. Budgets, on the other hand, are built directly from an Explorer report—so a budget always shares that report’s filters and dimensions.

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Next steps

Explorer

Analyze spend with filters and group-by dimensions.

Insights

Find and track cost-saving opportunities and cost anomalies.

AI Optimization

Track AI model usage, spend, recommendations, and anomalies.

MAP Manager

Tag and track AWS MAP migration credits.

Reports

Save views and schedule email delivery.

Explorer Dashboard

Build team dashboards from saved reports.

Budgets

Set spend targets and get alerted on overruns.

Dashboard

See All Spend and pinned widgets at a glance.
Need help? Use Help & Support in the sidebar to chat with support, email support@nops.io, or browse this documentation.