> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.costory.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dashboard Templates

> Use pre-built FinOps dashboard templates for executive cloud cost reporting, team showback, Savings Plan coverage, Kubernetes cost allocation, network costs, and storage optimization.

Dashboard templates give you a starting point for common FinOps workflows. Each template creates a dashboard with preconfigured widgets, filters, group-bys, and comparison periods that use your connected billing data.

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## When to use templates

Use a template when you want a working dashboard without deciding every widget first. After creating the dashboard, edit any widget to change the metric, chart type, filter, group-by, or date range.

Templates are useful for:

* Creating a repeatable dashboard for each team or product line
* Starting a monthly cost review without rebuilding the same charts
* Monitoring commitment coverage, Kubernetes costs, or network costs with standard FinOps views
* Giving executives a concise page with top cost drivers and budget movement

## Available templates

| Template                      | What it tracks                                                                                                                                     |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| CTO / Executive overview      | Total spend trend, top cost drivers, budget progress, and month-over-month comparison                                                              |
| Team cost overview            | Per-team spend scoped by [dimensions](/features/tagging/dimensions), service breakdown, budget progress, and cost efficiency metrics               |
| Savings Plan and CUD coverage | Covered vs uncovered spend, utilization rate, and coverage trend for commitment planning                                                           |
| Kubernetes cost breakdown     | Cost by cluster, namespace, workload, and waste indicator. See [EKS cost allocation](/use-cases/eks-cost-allocation).                              |
| Network cost analysis         | Cross-AZ, egress, and transfer cost drivers by provider, service, account, or team                                                                 |
| BigQuery cost attribution     | BigQuery spend by project, dbt model, package, or team. See [BigQuery and dbt visibility](/use-cases/dbt_bigquery_visibility/increase_visibility). |
| Storage cost optimization     | Unattached volumes, underused disks, backup growth, and high-cost storage classes                                                                  |

## Create a dashboard from a template

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Dashboards">
    Navigate to **Dashboards**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create a dashboard">
    Click **Create Dashboard**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose a template">
    Select the template that matches your workflow.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review the generated dashboard">
    Costory creates the dashboard with widgets populated from your connected billing data.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Customize widgets">
    Edit filters, group-bys, chart types, date ranges, and labels so the dashboard matches your organization.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Apply team scopes

Team templates work best when your [dimensions](/features/tagging/dimensions) already map cloud resources to owners. Create one team dashboard, verify the layout, then duplicate it and swap the team filter for each additional team.

You can also use [Teams](/features/teams) to assign dashboards to team members and apply default scopes.

## Template follow-ups

After you create a template dashboard, you can:

* Add or replace widgets with [dashboard widgets](/features/dashboards/widgets)
* Send a public link with [Quick Share](/features/dashboards/quickshare)
* Schedule the dashboard as a [Cost Report](/features/slack-reports)
* Create an [alert](/features/alerts) from the same query logic when a KPI needs monitoring

## Related links

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Create and organize dashboards" icon="table-columns" href="/features/dashboards/create-dashboard">
    Build dashboards from Explorer or an empty canvas.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Widgets and chart types" icon="chart-simple" href="/features/dashboards/widgets">
    Customize the widgets created by a template.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Dimensions" icon="layer-group" href="/features/tagging/dimensions">
    Configure team, product, or environment groupings before using team templates.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Kubernetes Cost Visibility" icon="dharmachakra" href="/use-cases/eks-cost-allocation">
    Break down Kubernetes costs by namespace, workload, and pod.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>