Your profile and preferences

Everything on this page is yours alone. Changing it affects what you see; it never changes what you are allowed to see, and nobody else in your organization is affected.

Open it from your avatar in the top-right corner, then Profile & preferences. The page hides the sidebar and the filter bar while you’re on it: press the back arrow to return to where you were.

Profile

Your account, shown read-only. If the name or email is wrong, an admin fixes it under Settings ▸ Users & Access.

Cost basis

This is the most consequential setting on the page, and the one worth understanding.

Option	What it means	Use it for
Billed cost	Exactly what the provider invoiced, including one-off purchases, upfront fees and refunds	Reconciling against the invoice you actually received
Effective cost	Upfront and commitment fees spread across the period they cover, so spend follows usage	Showback, chargeback and trends: this is the default

The difference shows up whenever you buy something upfront. Pay for a year of capacity in January and Billed cost puts the whole amount in January; Effective cost spreads it across all twelve months, which is almost always what you want when comparing teams or months to each other.

The Overview is the exception: it shows both figures side by side, so this setting doesn’t change it.

View: your active persona

Your active persona controls which report pages appear in your menu, which existing Overview style you start from, and which page CloudMonitor opens when you arrive without a specific link. Choose it from the Active persona list.

Every organization starts with four editable SYSTEM personas: IT & FinOps Practitioner, C-Level / Leadership, Cost Centre Owner, and Tokenomics & ROI. Your Organization Owner can rename those, change their menus, and add customer personas, so your list may look different.

Your choice applies immediately, follows your CloudMonitor account, and is cached on this device so the correct menu can paint quickly. If an owner later archives your selected customer persona, CloudMonitor falls back to the organization’s active default.

Language

English, Español, Nederlands and Français. This changes the app’s own labels and is remembered in the browser you set it in, so it won’t follow you to a different computer.

Your own data is unaffected: cost group names, tags and resource names appear exactly as they were entered.

Appearance

Light or dark, remembered in this browser.

Demo mode

Switches the whole app onto illustrative sample data from a fictional company. Useful for showing someone how CloudMonitor works without exposing real figures.

While it’s on, a Demo mode badge sits in the top bar so nobody mistakes the sample numbers for real ones. Turning it off returns you to your own data.