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Cost dashboards only work if people open them. Slack Reports deliver multi-cloud cost breakdowns directly to the channels your team already uses, on a recurring schedule, so cost visibility becomes part of the workflow instead of a separate task.
Costory Slack Report showing a weekly cloud cost breakdown by service name with comparison to the previous period

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Overview

Slack Reports take any saved Cost Explorer view and deliver it as a formatted cost snapshot to Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email on a schedule you define. Each report includes the cost breakdown, a comparison against a previous period, and a direct link back to the full view in Costory. Where it fits in your day-to-day:
  • Sending weekly cost updates to each squad’s Slack channel so engineers see their infrastructure spend without logging into a dashboard
  • Delivering monthly executive summaries to leadership with pre-filtered views scoped to their business unit
  • Keeping SRE and platform teams informed about infrastructure cost trends as part of their existing review cadence

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Get started

1

Create or open a saved View

Navigate to Cost Explorer and configure the filters, group-bys, and date range for the data you want to report on. Save it as a View so the report always uses the same configuration.
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Click Schedule Report

Open the View menu and select Schedule Report. This opens the scheduling configuration panel.
Configuring a scheduled cost report in Costory from a saved Cost Explorer view
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Choose a delivery channel

Select where the report should be delivered. Costory supports Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email.
You can create multiple scheduled reports from the same View, each targeting a different channel or cadence.
Before first delivery, complete channel setup for Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Email.
4

Configure cadence and comparison

Set the delivery schedule and the comparison period for the report.
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Cadence
weekly | monthly
How often the report is generated and delivered.
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Comparison Period
The reference period shown alongside the current period, so recipients see the cost change at a glance.
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Confirm and send a test report

Review the configuration and click Save. You can send a test report immediately to verify the channel, format, and data before the first scheduled delivery.
There is no additional cost for scheduling reports. Send as many as you need across Slack, Teams, and email.

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Use cases

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Squad cost updates

Send weekly reports to each engineering squad’s Slack channel with a View scoped to their services, accounts, or Virtual Dimensions. Engineers see their cost impact as part of their regular workflow, which builds cost awareness without requiring anyone to open a dashboard. See the Decentralize FinOps guide for a full walkthrough.

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SRE and platform reviews

Platform teams can subscribe to a View grouped by infrastructure service (compute, networking, storage) and receive a weekly or monthly report. This surfaces cost trends alongside their existing reliability and capacity review cadence.

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Leadership briefings

Create a high-level View grouped by business unit or provider and deliver it monthly to a leadership channel or mailing list. The comparison period gives executives a one-glance summary of how cloud spend changed, without needing to learn the Cost Explorer interface. See Executive Cost Reports for more on building views for stakeholders.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Costory supports Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email. You can send the same report to multiple channels by creating separate schedules from the same View.
Yes. Each scheduled report is tied to a specific View. You can create as many Views as you need in Cost Explorer and schedule each one to a different channel with its own cadence.
Reports can be sent weekly or monthly. The cadence is configured per schedule, so one View can have a weekly report going to the engineering channel and a monthly report going to leadership.
Slack Reports deliver a snapshot of a specific Cost Explorer view on a recurring schedule. Digest is broader: it automatically analyzes your entire cost structure, ranks changes by dollar impact, and generates AI explanations for each change. Many teams use both, Slack Reports for ongoing team-level visibility and Digest for monthly cost reviews and anomaly triage.
No. Scheduled reports are included at no additional cost, and there is no cap on the number of active schedules.

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Next Steps

Cost Explorer

Build the views that power your scheduled reports

Dashboards

Build persistent cost dashboards with multiple widgets

Digest

Auto-triage cost anomalies with AI-generated incident reports

Decentralize FinOps

Give each squad ownership of their cloud costs

Automate Cloud Budgets

Define per-team budgets and automate alerts when teams exceed targets

Executive Cost Reports

Build the dashboards your leadership team wants to see

Monthly Reviews

Automate your monthly cloud cost reporting workflow
Last modified on March 19, 2026