Azure cost intelligence for engineering teams
Reduce manual monitoring, build cost-optimized infrastructure, and lower your Azure bill with ShareGate Overcast’s Azure cost management platform.
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Empower your team with the Azure insights they need
ShareGate Overcast analyzes your Azure costs and usage data, automatically identifies cost issues, and gives you the insights and context you need to fix problems fast and make cost-efficient engineering decisions.
Explore savings recommendations
Reduce waste and rightsize your resources with optimization recommendations for your tenant or for specific products, features, or teams.
Detect cost anomalies
Be aware of unusual spikes in your Azure spending so you can address the issue before it gets out of control.
Forecast upcoming costs and set budgets
Prevent overspending with budgets and AI-powered cost forecasting that takes your historical usage, seasonality, and holiday effects into consideration.
Identify top cost drivers and variations
Quickly see which subscriptions, resource groups, and resources have the greatest impact on your costs—no spreadsheet or scripts required.
Map costs to products, features and teams
Create custom views of your subscriptions and resource groups to understand how your costs are distributed across your business.
Receive alerts and notifications
With periodic email digests, as well as forecast, budget, and anomaly alerts, you can be confident that if something’s not right in your environment, you’ll be the first to know.
5 easy steps to managing and optimizing your Azure infrastructure
STEP 1: GET VISIBILITY OVER YOUR AZURE COSTS
Understand what’s changed, why,
and who’s responsible
ShareGate Overcast automatically shows cost variations in your environment that require your attention. Easily explain what’s going on and skip sifting through layers of data to find your answers.
Spot misconfigurations, bugs, and anomalies more easily
Explore cost breakdowns to find the source of your spending changes
Find out who’s responsible—we use your Azure activity logs to identify an admin
STEP 2: OPTIMIZE YOUR AZURE RESOURCES
Uncover opportunities
to lower your Azure bill
ShareGate Overcast shows you where you’re potentially overspending so you can reduce waste and rightsize your resources to save money.
Receive personalized cost savings recommendations based on our daily scans of your environment
Explore monthly cost variations to identify further optimization opportunities
Fix cost anomalies promptly and avoid unpleasant surprises at the end of the month
STEP 3: PERFORM EFFECTIVE INVESTIGATIONS
Fix issues faster with deep engineering contextual data
Simplify your troubleshooting by connecting cost to cause. ShareGate Overcast automatically provides you the information you need to launch your cost investigations in the right direction.
Immediately see the affected resource, resource type, group, and subscription
View the last action taken on the resource and who took it
Identify the meter at the source of the issue to help you figure out what changed
STEP 4: ANALYZE YOUR AZURE COSTS
Understand the cost of building and running your products
and services
Create custom views to understand how your costs are distributed across specific products, features, deployment environments, business units, or teams—whatever makes sense for how your business is structured.
Explain your Azure spending to upper management in an easy-to-digest format
Understand how engineering decisions affect your bottom line
Show the ROI of your Azure cloud spend to your boss and other decision makers
STEP 5: SHARE AZURE COST ACCOUNTABILITY
Make cost management
everyone’s job
Azure cost management should not be just one person’s burden. ShareGate Overcast allows you to have unlimited users, so your whole engineering team can be on the same page.
Help your team understand how their daily engineering decisions affect costs
Provide the intelligence and context your team needs to troubleshoot problems faster
Make everyone more accountable for the resources they create and maintain
The ShareGate difference
We built ShareGate Overcast to make your life easier, so you can spend your time where it counts—building great software and infrastructure for your business.
Time saving
insights
Pulling reports and building dashboards are things of the past. Get the answers you’re looking for in a few minutes instead of spending hours analyzing
data yourself.
Proactive cost management
Get visibility into what’s coming your way with AI-backed insights to avoid surprises on your Azure bill. If something’s off, you’ll be the first
to know.
Simplified troubleshooting
Get the engineering contextual data you need to explain what’s going on and resolve issues fast so you can keep costs under control.
Reduce your Azure bill
without spending anything.
See all your potential cost savings during your free trial!