How to turn modules on or off
Not everything in CloudMonitor is switched on for everyone. Optional modules keep the menu focused on what your organization actually uses.
Settings ▸ Features.
Turn the modules available in this workspace on or off. Changes take effect when you save.
One row per module, each with an On / Off switch and a description. Hover the marker beside a name for what that module actually gives you.
Choosing On or Off stages the change and opens an explanation of its effect. Nothing has changed for anyone yet. This applies when you save. Choose Proceed to keep that change staged, or Cancel in the explanation to put that module back the way it was.
The page shows You have unsaved changes. while anything is staged. Select Save to apply all staged changes, or the page’s Cancel to discard them. Leaving the screen with staged changes asks before discarding them.
The rows are grouped under headings, so you can find what you’re looking for by the kind of spend it covers rather than reading the whole list:
| Heading | Modules |
|---|---|
| Cloud and SaaS cost | Azure, Microsoft 365, Fabric Monitoring |
| AI and tokens | Tokenomics Module, GitHub |
| Add-ons | Unit Economics, Extended details for Entra Users, Security Module |
The heading is a label, nothing more: it tells you where to look, and changes nothing about what a module does or who can see it.
What each one covers
Section titled “What each one covers”| Module | Adds |
|---|---|
| Azure | The Azure-specific screens: Virtual Machines, Commitments, Savings, Well-Architected recommendations, Search Resources and Fabric. Your cost data, cost groups, budgets and anomalies are not affected: those cover every provider you connect |
| Microsoft 365 | The Microsoft 365 report: tenant usage, licensing and security |
| Tokenomics Module | The AI spend reports: AI Spend, AI Tool Adoption, spend by business unit, power users, seat utilization and TokenMaxing |
| GitHub | Collection of your GitHub Copilot license and usage cost: seat spend, premium requests and per-user usage |
| Unit Economics | Cost expressed as a rate. A cost group owner records what their group produced each month, in whatever the business counts, and that group’s cost is divided by it |
| Extended details for Entra Users | Optional last successful Entra login date in Microsoft 365 User Activity. This very low-impact feature requires the extra permission to read all users in the Entra service. It is off by default, does not add a menu item, and is not necessary. When off, Microsoft 365 workload activity remains available but last-login data is not collected or shown. |
| Security Module | Security posture reporting: exposure, identity, encryption and findings, with what each costs to remediate. Not built yet; see below |
| Fabric Monitoring | The Capacity Metrics tab inside the Fabric report. Not a screen of its own: Chargeback, Capacities and Workspaces stay available either way |
What happens after you save
Section titled “What happens after you save”When you switch a module off and select Save, these effects appear immediately, with no reload:
- Its menu rows disappear.
- Anyone with a saved link to one of its screens gets a page saying it’s turned off, with the route to have it re-enabled. They don’t get an error or an empty report.
- Its groups vanish from Sources & Integrations.
Nothing is deleted. Switch it back on, save, and everything returns exactly as it was.
GitHub is the one that behaves differently. It doesn’t just hide screens: it controls whether CloudMonitor collects your Copilot data at all. Saving it as Off stops new data arriving; everything already collected stays, and saving it as On resumes collection from that point.
Behaviors worth expecting
Section titled “Behaviors worth expecting”Gated menu rows appear a moment after the rest. CloudMonitor won’t show a module until it has positively confirmed your workspace has it. That produces a brief pop-in, which is the honest rendering of “we don’t know yet”: the alternative would be flashing a module at someone who doesn’t have it.
If the setting can’t be read, modules stay hidden. During a rare outage of the settings service, optional modules disappear until it clears. That’s deliberate: “we can’t confirm you have this” must never resolve to “show it anyway”. Nothing is lost, and it heals itself.
If the list is empty
Section titled “If the list is empty”No features are configured for this workspace.: the module catalog hasn’t been set up. Contact support rather than trying to fix it from here.
When a module is switched off
Section titled “When a module is switched off”A switched-off module exists and works; the workspace simply does not have it enabled. An administrator can enable it in Settings ▸ Features. Unit Economics is an ordinary optional module and is switched on for new workspaces by default.
The Security Module is a third case: the switch is in place, but the reporting behind it hasn’t been built yet, so turning it on adds nothing to your menu today. It’s there so the module is ready to appear the moment it ships.