When you start analyzing your Azure costs you are probably retrospectively trying to get costs under control.
Where your management team really want to get you to is a place where you can plan ahead and anticipate future costs and track actual vs expected costs.
In Turbo360 there is a budget planner feature which is available for each team/customer/area you create on the tree view. This lets you allow the owner of that scope to create and manage a budget plan.
Below you can see an example of this.
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The key points here are:
The blue bar is what I am spending each month
The blue area starting from may and heading out right is a ranged forecast of my costs based on previous performance.
The red line is my planned costs that I can influence by telling Turbo360 about future projects I may have in the pipeline
The ranged forecast is interesting because it will create a bar which looks at the month over month cost fluctuation to give you a range your costs are expected to fall within. The wider the range the less predicable your costs are.
With the red line you can use the configuration section to inform Turbo360 about your expected monthly costs and you might indicate that next month you have a new project going starting which will increase my costs.
The aim of this feature is to provide an experience that Project Managers, team managers and Finance people will feel comfortable in maintaining a future plan of costs.
Video
The below video gives a walk through of this feature.