How to customize your homepage
The Overview ships with a FinOps-first default, but it’s the page you’ll look at most, so it’s worth making it yours.
Your layout affects only you. Nobody else’s Overview changes.
Turn on editing
Section titled “Turn on editing”Use either shortcut:
- Edit homepage in the Overview header turns on arranging mode.
- Choose widgets in the Make this page yours. prompt at the bottom turns on the same mode and opens the widget picker immediately.
The header changes to Add widget, Cancel and Done.
Add or remove widgets
Section titled “Add or remove widgets”Add widget opens a searchable gallery organized into expandable business categories. Each card shows the widget’s name, what it is for, whether it is currently selected, and a safe sample preview. The Spend vs plan preview uses a screenshot of the real widget rendered with fictional sample data; other cards use non-data illustrations. Previews never use your data or show your current values.
Select a preview to open a larger view with the widget’s purpose, source screen, and the global filters it honors. Add or remove the widget from either the card or this detail view.
Those choices stay inside the picker until you select Apply. Closing the picker before Apply discards them. Apply returns the selection to the page as an edit draft; it does not save the layout.
You can also remove a widget directly on the page: in edit mode each one grows an ×.
Reorder
Section titled “Reorder”Drag the handle on any widget, or use its keyboard move controls. Small widgets snap into rows of one to four equal cards. Larger analysis widgets always keep a row to themselves. The page stacks into a single reading order at narrow widths without changing your saved desktop arrangement.
Finish
Section titled “Finish”After picker Apply, select Done to save the homepage layout. Cancel puts back whatever you started with.
Reset to default, in the dropdown beside Cancel, replaces the edit draft with the current shipped layout. Select Done to commit it, or Cancel to restore the arrangement you started with. Reset is the only way an existing personal layout adopts a newer product default.
Why this is worth doing
Section titled “Why this is worth doing”What’s available
Section titled “What’s available”The FinOps-first default starts with a trust strip, then the decision tiles available to you:
- Effective cost
- Forecast vs budget
- Anomaly exposure
- Unallocated share, when you may read allocation data
- Unit economics, when the current scope has a completed-month rate from a configured business quantity
Below them, Spend vs plan sits beside Needs attention in one card, followed by Cost Group drivers and then the full-width Spend over time chart. At narrow widths, Spend vs plan appears before Needs attention.
The previous defaults remain in the catalog: Budget health, Cost by Cost Group, Recommendations and Recent activity. The catalog also has commitments, savings, anomalies, budgets, unallocated spend, Microsoft 365, virtual machines, Fabric, and AI adoption widgets when your workspace has those modules. Unit economics appears in the catalog only while an honest rate is available; it does not show an empty card or a setup prompt when no quantity has been configured.
Things worth expecting
Section titled “Things worth expecting”Your layout follows you between devices.
A saved layout stays yours when the shipped default changes. New default widgets are not added to it automatically, even if your layout matches an older default. Use Reset only when you want the current product default.
A widget you can’t currently see isn’t lost. If a widget needs a module or role you don’t have, it’s skipped rather than removed: it reappears if that changes.
The conditional Unit economics widget follows the same rule. It can disappear when you change to a scope without a valid rate and reappear when you return to one that has it. Your saved layout is not rewritten in either direction.
In demo mode, changes last the session only. Demo mode is a sandbox; nothing there is saved.
The same visual picker and bottom shortcut appear on Fabric App Explorer and The Ledger because those pages also have personal widget layouts. Their cards offer the same search and larger detail view. It does not appear on static reports, and standalone Workload pickers are unchanged in this pilot.
A suggestion
Section titled “A suggestion”Build it around the question you open CloudMonitor to answer. Keep the default decision surface if you want trust, plan, exceptions, allocation, actions and drivers together. Add the deeper catalog widgets when one of those questions deserves more room.