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EA to MCA: Reporting on cost in Power BI

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micflan
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May 22, 2025
Microsoft offers several ways to analyze and report on your cloud costs. For quick exploration of subscriptions and billing accounts, start with smart views in Cost analysis in the Azure portal or Mi...
Screenshot of the Cost summary report Summary page with a table of cost broken down by subaccount (subscription) and a chart showing total running cost for the period.
Updated Jul 06, 2025
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Francesco_beqom
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May 26, 2025

Nice but... 

Do you think it would be possible to have, one day, the FinOps Toolkit to be downloadable from the Power BI Apps market? 

I bet that would be game changer. 
I know the practical problem would be the data source. But maybe there is a way to "attach" the data source? 

  • micflan's avatar
    micflan
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    May 27, 2025

    There are definitely some challenges with that approach, but it's not out of the question. I think those only get updated once a month with a very early deadline for each release train. So that means updates would be outdated by the time they were released. We also may run into challenges with new releases requiring newer backend deployments or export dataset versions. The differences between storage and KQL reports might be a point of confusion, but nothing insurmountable.

    Either way, can you submit this as a feature request in the FinOps toolkit repo? We try to prioritize one of the top 10 requests each month, so assuming it bubbles up, we'll find a way to make it work.