nOps makes it easy to drive visibility, stay on budget & align finance and engineering

Good budgets start with good data. But it can be time-consuming and cumbersome to split shared platform costs and juggle spreadsheets or complicated cost management tools.

nOps makes it quick and easy to track and allocate costs — ensuring every dollar spent is properly categorized across teams, features, products, customers, SaaS metrics, or any other dimension relevant to your needs.

What’s New

We’re excited to unveil nOps Budgets & Cost Tracking, the latest addition to Business Contexts+. It makes budget creation, tracking, and monitoring seamless, fully integrating with nOps’s powerful suite of cost visibility tools for understanding your cloud costs.
A screenshot of a cost analysis report showing a detailed breakdown of cloud spending. The report includes filters for date range, cost type, cost entity, cost entity name, accounts, account names, line item type, purchase type, product service, invoice service, and more. The report also includes a spend summary showing the total spend and a comparison to the previous month. A usage chart visualizes the spending over time, broken down by different cost entities and accounts.
Automatically break down your cloud costs by any engineering dimension (down to the pod or container level) or finance dimension

Stop cost overruns with continuous monitoring

Get updates on how your spend is tracking against your budgets or targets, driving visibility and accountability across your team. See early if you’re on track to overspend, so you can react quickly to prevent cost overruns.
This image shows a table displaying a list of targets and trackings. The table includes columns for target name, target type, period, last modified date, alert status, target parameters, and action. The target types include Budget and Tracking. The alert status indicates whether the target has been exceeded or is within the specified limit.
It just takes a glance to determine which teams are over or under budget, and identify the product features that are driving those trends.

It’s fast and easy to import your current budgeting data

Simply upload a CSV file with your current spending data to get started. The system generates your target breakdown automatically “from the bottom up”, and you can adjust values directly in the UI as needed.

No complex setups — just a quick and straightforward way to get your budgeting up and running.

Generate customized budgets top-down

Alternatively, you can generate budgets “top-down” by entering your desired financial targets. nOps will automatically generate detailed budget breakdowns across periods and categories. Instantly see how your high-level objectives translate into actionable budgets with customizable growth rates and parameters.

Top-down vs bottom-up budgeting

Top-down budgeting involves leaders setting a financial target, and the budget is then allocated based on that target. This approach is efficient for aligning with organizational goals and provides a straightforward way to control overall spending. Bottom-up budgeting starts by analyzing actual spending data, building the budget from real expenses to create a more accurate forecast. It is beneficial when you want a realistic view of expenses and to base your budget on existing spending patterns. Use top-down when simplicity and speed are priorities, and bottom-up when precision and data-driven accuracy are essential.

 

nOps makes it easy to toggle back and forth between “bottom-up” and “top-down” so you can leverage either or both approaches seamlessly.

nOps makes it easy to toggle back and forth between “bottom-up” and “top-down” so you can leverage either or both approaches seamlessly.

This image shows a form for editing a target. The form includes fields for target name, type, period, number of periods, lookup back period, start month/year, end month/year, target parameters, budget type, starting value, growth of total period percentage, and normalization period. There are also buttons for auto-generating and uploading CSV files.

Understand Trends And Past Performance

Compare teams, products, features, and more to understand your spending trends and forecast future costs with a high degree of accuracy. With complete cloud visibility, your AWS bill is never a mystery.

Example use cases

Ways you can use nOps Budgets & Cost Tracking include:

  • Track the cost of different features or applications
  • Set cost targets for spend reduction
  • Calculate the cost of a new product launch
  • Track the cost of individual dev, data, or product teams
  • Monitor the costs of individual customers
  • Report overall engineering costs to finance

Watch nOps VP of Engineering James Wilson using nOps Business Contexts+ to establish and track a budget:

How to Get Started

Have questions about customizable dashboards? Need help getting started? Business Contexts+ customers can access this new feature directly from the nOps dashboard. If you’re not a Business Contexts+ customer, schedule a demo or reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn more.

About nOps

nOps was recently ranked #1 with five stars in G2’s cloud cost management category, and we optimize $1.5+ billion in cloud spend for our customers.

Join our customers using nOps to understand your cloud costs and leverage automation with complete confidence by booking a demo with one of our AWS experts.