Budget view
Understand budget compliance by groups and service accounts can significantly improve oversight and reduce cloud spend.
Important: If you have the insights_owner role, only the accounts that are assigned to you appear in the filters and data.
Use the Budget view to:
- View your total budget and spend on your cloud assets.
- Analyze your future spend and understand if you're within or over the budget.
- Manage your cloud spend, you can define and monitor custom Budget plans.
- Create and manage a budget policy. For more information, see Create or update a budget policy.
[Omitted image "ccm-budget-view-ws.png"] Alt text: Budget view in Cloud Cost Management Workspace.
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Report |
Description |
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Total budget |
Valid budget of your cloud assets for the current period. |
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Total spend |
Total spend on your cloud assets for the current month. Indicates if your current spend is within or has exceeded the budget. |
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Forecasted spend |
Forecasted spend based on the total spend on your cloud resources. Indicates if your forecasted spend is within the budget or has exceeded. |
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Budget vs Spend |
Comparison between budget and current or forecasted spend of each budget policy.You can filter the data by:
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After you create or modify a budget policy, the policies get displayed on the All Budgets page. Find the details of the budget such as overrun, surplus, or invalid budgets. You can view only the overrun budgets by toggling the Show overrun budget only toggle button. Search a budget by its name, owner, or provider.
[Omitted image "all-budgets.png"] Alt text: All budgets page in the Budgets view of Cloud Cost Management Workspace.
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Total budget duration | Total duration of the budget period. |
| Budget amount | The amount allocated for cloud spend during the budget duration. |
| Spend to date | The actual cloud spend accumulated from the start of the budget period to the current date. |
| Budget used | The percentage of the budget amount consumed to the current date. This metric is displayed as both a percentage value and a progress bar. |
| Forecasted spend | Forecasted spend based on the total spend on your cloud resources. |
--- title: Budget view description: Understand budget compliance by groups and service accounts can significantly improve oversight and reduce cloud spend. locale: en-US canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/it-asset-management/cloud-cost-management/budget-view-ws.html release: australia product: Cloud Cost Management classification: cloud-cost-management topic_type: concept last_updated: "2026-09-10" reading_time_minutes: 1 breadcrumb: [Cloud Cost Management Workspace, Explore, Cloud Cost Management, IT Asset Management, Asset Management] --- # Budget view Understand budget compliance by groups and service accounts can significantly improve oversight and reduce cloud spend. **Important:** If you have the insights\_owner role, only the accounts that are assigned to you appear in the filters and data. Use the Budget view to: - View your total budget and spend on your cloud assets. - Analyze your future spend and understand if you're within or over the budget. - Manage your cloud spend, you can define and monitor custom Budget plans. - Create and manage a budget policy. For more information, see [Create or update a budget policy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/cloud-cost-management/manage-cloud-budgets.md). \[Omitted image "ccm-budget-view-ws.png"\] Alt text: Budget view in Cloud Cost Management Workspace. <table id="table_est_kbv_ywb"><thead><tr><th> Report </th><th> Description </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td> Total budget </td><td> Valid budget of your cloud assets for the current period. </td></tr><tr><td> Total spend </td><td> Total spend on your cloud assets for the current month. Indicates if your current spend is within or has exceeded the budget. </td></tr><tr><td> Forecasted spend </td><td> Forecasted spend based on the total spend on your cloud resources. Indicates if your forecasted spend is within the budget or has exceeded. </td></tr><tr><td> Budget vs Spend </td><td> Comparison between budget and current or forecasted spend of each budget policy.You can filter the data by: - Budget owner - Budget name - Budget vs current spend - Budget vs forecasted spend </td></tr></tbody> </table>## All budgets After you create or modify a budget policy, the policies get displayed on the **All Budgets** page. Find the details of the budget such as overrun, surplus, or invalid budgets. You can view only the overrun budgets by toggling the **Show overrun budget only** toggle button. Search a budget by its name, owner, or provider. \[Omitted image "all-budgets.png"\] Alt text: All budgets page in the Budgets view of Cloud Cost Management Workspace. |Metric|Description| |------|-----------| |Total budget duration|Total duration of the budget period.| |Budget amount|The amount allocated for cloud spend during the budget duration.| |Spend to date|The actual cloud spend accumulated from the start of the budget period to the current date.| |Budget used|The percentage of the budget amount consumed to the current date. This metric is displayed as both a percentage value and a progress bar.| |Forecasted spend|Forecasted spend based on the total spend on your cloud resources.|
| title | Budget view |
| description | Understand budget compliance by groups and service accounts can significantly improve oversight and reduce cloud spend. |
| locale | en-US |
| canonical_url | https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/it-asset-management/cloud-cost-management/budget-view-ws.html |
| release | australia |
| product | Cloud Cost Management |
| classification | cloud-cost-management |
| topic_type | concept |
| last_updated | 2026-09-10 |
| reading_time_minutes | 1 |
| breadcrumb | Cloud Cost Management WorkspaceExploreCloud Cost ManagementIT Asset ManagementAsset Management |