Demo: Connect Cloud Cost Data to OpsLevel in Minutes

How to get cost data into your internal developer portal

Modern engineering teams live and die by two numbers: how fast they ship and how much it costs to run what they ship. Yet most cost data is buried in monthly CSV exports or finance dashboards that developers rarely see. OpsLevel’s flexible Catalog Engine fixes that gap by letting you pipe any external metric—including per-service cloud spend—directly into the service catalog your engineers already use every day.

Why cost visibility matters (and why spreadsheets don’t scale)

• Align engineering with business goals. When developers can see yesterday’s AWS bill beside their service, cost optimizations become part of the normal workflow, not an end-of-quarter scramble.
• Unlock FinOps automation. Combine cost signals with OpsLevel Checks and Actions to trigger alerts or pull-request gates when spend crosses a threshold.
• Drive accountability at every layer. Roll costs up from service → team → org to spotlight the best (and worst) spend performers.

Prerequisites

1. Cost data source. We demonstrate CloudZero, but AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or any tool with a cost API works
2. Cost-allocation tags in your cloud account (e.g., Name, Product, or Service)
3. OpsLevel service catalog

Tip: Schedule the script via GitHub Actions or AWS Lambda to refresh costs daily.

Visualizing spend at every level

• Service detail: Developers see a live AWS Cost field right beside deployments, SLOs, and incidents.
• Team dashboard: Add a pie-chart or stacked-bar widget to compare costs across services the team owns.
• Org-wide FinOps scorecard: Combine cost with reliability and maturity metrics to understand true ROI of every service.

Beyond CloudZero: your data, your way

Because OpsLevel’s API is fully open, you can repeat the exact pattern for:

• GCP Billing Export via BigQuery.
• Azure Cost Management REST endpoints.
• Proprietary chargeback systems or Snowflake cost tables.

If it speaks JSON, OpsLevel can listen.

Ready to make every engineer a FinOps champion?

1. Grab the sample script → GitHub community repo
2. Talk to a product specialist→ Book a live demo

Cut cloud waste, ship faster, and keep budgets predictable—all from one developer portal.

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