How do I get AI spend into Vantage, CloudZero or my data lake automatically?
FinOps connectors push your AI spend as FOCUS data to Vantage, CloudZero or an S3 bucket every day, so it sits next to your cloud spend with no CSV downloads. Business plan.
FinOps teams already have a tool for cloud spend. Connectors send your AI spend there as FOCUS data every day, so AI shows up next to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud without anyone downloading a file.
Add a destination
Open Integrations → FinOps platform connectors → Add destination, choose the destination, fill in its fields and Save and push now. The secret is encrypted and never shown again.
| Destination | You provide | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
| Vantage | A Custom Provider's integration token (Settings → Integrations → Custom Provider) and an API token with write access | A FOCUS 1.2 CSV per month, named cognocient-focus-YYYY-MM.csv (Vantage reads FOCUS 1.1–1.3). A month over 10,000 rows or 2 MB is split into -p1, -p2 files. |
| CloudZero | An AnyCost Stream connection ID and an API key | The month as CloudZero Common Bill Format: time, cost, service, provider as account, meter as usage family, model as resource, and your tags as resource/tag:<key> |
| Amazon S3 | Bucket, region, optional key prefix, and an access key with s3:PutObject | <prefix>cognocient-focus-YYYY-MM.csv, FOCUS 1.2 or 1.4 |
When it runs
Daily at about 04:00 UTC: the current month to date, plus the previous month during the first three days of a month, because late logs and provider corrections settle after month end. Push now runs it on demand. Pause a destination to stop pushes without deleting it.
Each push sends the whole month and replaces what the destination holds for it: Vantage overwrites the file with the same name, CloudZero's first request uses replace_drop (later chunks of a large month use sum), and S3 overwrites the object. Re-running never double counts.
CloudZero's AnyCost Stream is in beta at CloudZero; ask your CloudZero contact to enable it. These connectors follow each platform's documented API and have not yet been run against a live customer account, so check the first load. A month with no AI spend is skipped rather than sent empty.
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