Can we trust this month's cloud cost figure yet?
Onam FinOps records every ingestion run and shows the reconciliation state of every period. You can see whether a number is settled before you quote it.
In your words
We quoted a cost figure to the board, and a week later it changed. Finance reconciles against an export that landed mid-close, and nobody can say whether this month's figure is final or still moving. Our cost tool shows the number with the same confidence either way.
What Reconciled billing shows you
Described from the product documentation — what the view holds, not what we hope it will.
Run history
Each run records what it ingested, when, and how it ended — the provenance behind every figure.
Reconciliation state per period
How well the ingested records agree with the source billing data. An unreconciled period is labelled as a working estimate.
Daily and monthly-close runs
Daily runs keep the current period live. The monthly close settles a completed period.
The cost model
Billed cost and effective cost reported for every period, side by side, never flattened into one figure.
Gaps made visible
A gap in the run history means the figures for that window are incomplete, whatever the charts show.
The mechanism, step by step
What Reconciled billing does, in the order it does it.
- 1Daily runs ingest the current period
The running picture of this period, which keeps moving until it closes.
- 2A monthly-close run finalises the period
Once it completes, the period's figure is settled and quotable.
- 3Reconciliation is recorded
Each period carries a state describing how well the ingested records agree with the source billing data.
- 4You read it before you quote it
Recent daily runs mean the figure is live. A completed monthly close means it is settled. A gap means it is incomplete.
What it does not do
Knowing where a capability stops is part of deciding whether to buy it.
The current period is an estimate
Until the monthly close, the figure will keep moving. The console labels it as a working estimate rather than presenting it as settled.
It reports billing; it does not fix it
Runs show how settled the data is. They do not correct the provider's billing data or move money.
Questions about Reconciled billing
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Onam FinOps runs in the same console and login as the rest of Onam, with read-only access to your cloud.