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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.
  • Recommendations: Practical ways to lower your cloud bill, with estimated savings, effort levels, step-by-step guidance, and tracking of the savings you’ve achieved.
  • Anomalies: Early warning when your spend jumps or drops unexpectedly, with the cause of each change.
  • MAP Manager: Track and tag resources for your AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) contracts so you capture every credit you’re owed.
  • Home page: Choose where nOps opens when you sign in, such as Anomalies or a saved Explorer dashboard.
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. Spend on AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT has its own area in the sidebar under AI, with per-seat tracking, allocation, budgets, and limit requests. See AI.

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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 your integrations under Settings → Account Status, and fix any that need attention.
  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, then set it as your home page.

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Feature guide

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Typical workflows

Daily standup Start on your home page → 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 Review Anomalies for unexpected spend → work through Recommendations, starting with low-effort savings → 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.
Yes. Use the cog next to Home in the sidebar to pick a page, saved report, cost allocation, or Explorer dashboard. Admins can also set a default for the whole organization. See Home page.
Recommendations and Anomalies work on their own, so you don’t need to build anything in Explorer first. From any anomaly, you can open Explorer with that anomaly’s details already filtered. Budgets are different: each one is built from an Explorer report and uses that report’s filters and dimensions.

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Next steps

Explorer

Analyze spend with filters and group-by dimensions.

Recommendations

Find ways to save and track the savings you’ve achieved.

Anomalies

Catch unexpected spend changes early.

AI

Track AI seat spend, allocation, budgets, and limit requests.

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.

Home page

Choose where nOps opens when you sign in.
Need help? Use Help & Support in the sidebar to chat with support, email support@nops.io, or browse this documentation.