Budgets
Overview
Setting budgets and forecasting IT spend is a well-established FinOps practice, it enables you to track your actual cloud spend against your planned spend and ensures that you won't get surprised by your cloud bill.
In the DoiT Console, you can set budgets using Attributions that map to your organizational and financial reporting structure.
Required Permissions: Attributions Manager, Budgets Manager, Cloud Analytics
Access budgets
To access Budgets, select Governance from the top navigation bar, and then select Budgets.
You can filter budgets by their properties.
View budgets
To view the configuration of a specific budget, select the budget name on the main budgets screen to open the budget page.
You'll also find the Spend progress and budget preview when viewing a budget.
Data latency
DoiT Platform processes the cost and usage data after receiving it from the cloud service providers. See also AWS cost data latency in DoiT Console and Google Cloud's frequency of data loads.