# Insights-driven cloud usage reporting

Gain a deeper understanding of your infrastructure usage and optimize spending with detailed reports that move beyond traditional cost metrics, offering a comprehensive view of your resource consumption.

## What is Usage-Based Reporting?

Usage-Based Reporting helps correlate resource consumption with cloud costs across your environments. Instead of just seeing what you're spending, this feature lets you track how much you're using—like EC2 hours, GBs of storage, or vCPU time. It supports usage metrics across AWS, Azure, and GCP, enabling teams to identify inefficiencies, right-size resources, and plan capacity better. With standardized units and forecasting capabilities, CloudSpend's usage reports give clear, actionable visibility into what's driving your cloud bills, helping you optimize performance and budget with data-backed decisions.

## Powerful usage-driven reporting

### Monitor real-time resource consumption

**Real-time cost monitoring**

Effortlessly toggle between cost and usage views in Cost Reports, providing customizable filters and groupings to track key metrics like EC2 instance usage or storage volume consumption.

### Unified measurement standards

**Standardized metrics**

Aggregate usage data seamlessly with standardized metrics, enabling consistent comparisons across providers, regardless of whether it's in hours, gigabytes, or other measurement units.

### Link usage to costs

**Usage-cost correlation**

Discover valuable insights by identifying patterns and relationships between your resource usage and the corresponding costs, empowering smarter resource optimization decisions.

### Predictive insights and forecasting

**Predictive forecasting**

Leverage machine learning to forecast future usage trends based on historical data. Make proactive decisions to adjust resources before usage spikes, ensuring cost control and efficient scaling.

## Featured Resources

### Cloud cost optimization: 5 best practices for reducing your cloud bills

**Blog**

This blog talks about best practices in cloud cost optimization to be adopted by organizations and help them reduce cloud bills.

[Read more](https://blogs.manageengine.com/corporate/general/2023/01/20/cloud-cost-optimization-5-best-practices-for-reducing-your-cloud-bills.html)

### In-depth guides to FinOps

**Articles**

Go deep on cost optimization, tagging, governance, AI spend, and more, with practical guidance you can act on.

[Read articles](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/articles/)

### Cloud cost terms, made clear

**FinOps Glossary**

Look up the FinOps, cloud cost, and AI spend terms your team keeps running into, explained in plain language.

[Browse the glossary](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/finops-glossary/)

### Help and documentation

**User Guide**

Get set up quickly and learn how to use every CloudSpend feature, step by step.

[Read more](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/help/reports.html)