Spotter Documentation
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Spotter Quick Start Guide

This guide will help to get you started once in Spotter.

1. Finding Your Way Around

  • Home is your starting point after login — summaries from other features.

  • Navigation/main features are in the menu on the left side of the screen.

    • Click any menu item to open that feature. What you see on the nav, depends on the access rights you have.

Access rights: Each user has a role that controls what they can see and do.

  • Admins see everything and can manage users, integrations, and settings.

  • Cloud Admins (e.g. AWS Admin) can see all AWS data and manage AWS users, integrations, and settings.

  • Regular users can view data and do not have access to organization level settings.

  • Admins can manage users accees rights and visibility to main features from Admin → Users → Edit user

  • Users! If something is missing from your navigation, ask admin to grant access.

2. Main Features

  • Home – Overview dashboard summarizing your costs, compliance, recommendations etc.

  • Costs – See what you're spending, broken down by account, service, or region, with monthly trends and year-end forecasts.

  • Optimization – Practical ways to save money (e.g. commitments, resizing or reserving resources).

  • Advisor – Best-practice tips for security, reliability, and performance.

  • Compliance – Your security score and any issues measured against standards (e.g. CIS Benchmark).

  • Infra – A searchable list of all your cloud resources (servers, databases, storage, etc.).

  • Sustainability – Estimations from the carbon emissions and energy usage from your cloud environment.

  • All main features allow you to use filters to narrow down the data and create presets to save useful combinations of filters for quick access later.

    • To create a preset, simply select some filters (e.g. projects and regions) and click button to save it.

  • Some features allow you to also export data to .csv files.

3. User Settings

  • Profile – View your details and access rights.

  • Notifications – Set up Cost - and Compliance Spotters

    • These are configurable email alerts/notifications for costs and compliance monitoring.

  • Can't see a feature? It may not be enabled for your account — ask your Spotter admin.



Need help?

Find Support option in the nav to report a problem or ask any question.

You can also send us an email to spotter@cloud2.fi