You can now easily integrate your CloudSpend account with Site24x7 to track your CloudSpend budgets and to use the available notification options.

Table of contents

• Why do you need this integration?
• Use case
• Enabling the integration in CloudSpend
• Site24x7 account integration
  • Integrating a CloudSpend cost account with Site24x7
  • Integrating a new CloudSpend account
  • Integrating an existing CloudSpend account
  • Integrating cost accounts for MSP Admin
  • Integrating BU for Site24x7
  • Integrating BU for MSP Admin
• Disabling the integration

Why do you need this integration?

Integrating your CloudSpend account with Site24x7 enables you to:

• View the easy-to-understand dashboard with preconfigured chart widgets.You can also export dashboard views in PDF format and share them with your team members.
• Monitor your cost account expenses or budget in your preferred currency to understand your spending patterns on a regional basis.
• Drill down and analyze your cloud costs by adding filters like subscriptions, resource groups, services, resource types, user-defined and Azure-generated tags, dates, and more.
• Gain effective chargebacks by grouping and understanding cloud costs by different teams, projects, departments, subscriptions, and more with Business Units (BU).
• Set custom cost budgets to your Azure account, BU, or any tagged resource to prevent unexpected cost coverages.
• Schedule reports to be delivered to multiple contacts.
• Forecast your cloud costs and budget values configured in CloudSpend.
• Integrate with Site24x7 Alarms to be notified in case of budget breaches.
• Receive notifications through your preferred channels using Site24x7's third-party integrations like Slack, Jira, and Microsoft Teams.
• Scale your resources up or down through IT automation.

Use case

Consider that you have a cost account in CloudSpend with budgets configured. In case of any threshold or budget breaches, you'll receive an alert. Through CloudSpend-Site24x7 integration, you'll be able to effectively manage those notifications, with the Alarms option in Site24x7.

Moreover, once an alert is raised, you can use the IT automation options in Site24x7 to perform any action automatically in case of a breach. For instance, if you have an Azure account that has to be turned off after reaching a budget threshold, you can do this by invoking a predefined automation.

Enabling the integration in CloudSpend

The option to integrate with Site24x7 is disabled by default. To enable it:

1. Log in to CloudSpend.
2. Navigate to Admin >General > Settings > Account Settings.
3. Toggle to Yes next to the Integrate with Site24x7 option.

Site24x7 account integration

Once you enable the integration in CloudSpend, navigate to Site24x7 by clicking on the product switcher icon  located at the top-left corner of the page. In the Site24x7 web client, navigate to Cloud > Azure > CloudSpend.

Integrating a CloudSpend cost account with Site24x7

To integrate your cost accounts in CloudSpend with Site24x7:

1. Click the Integrate Account button in the CloudSpend home page
2. In the new Integrate Account page that opens:
3. Provide the display name of the account.
4. Select the Public Cloud Provider as Azure.
5. Choose Site24x7 Account as your Azure Account Type.
6. Select your Azure account from the Choose Site24x7 Account drop-down list.
7. Enter the Application Secret Key Expiration Date.
8. Enter the Starting date for bill processing.
9. Click Save.

Within a few minutes, the cost account will be listed on the Cost Accounts page in Site24x7 and in Site24x7 > Cloud > Azure > Your Azure Account > CloudSpend.

Integrating a new CloudSpend account

To integrate a new CloudSpend account:

1. Navigate to Site24x7 > Cloud > Azure > YourAzureAccount > CloudSpend.
2. In the Integrate New CloudSpend Account tab, click Integrate CloudSpend Account. You'll be redirected to CloudSpend.
3. In the Integrate Accountpage, enter the following details:
   • Display Name
   • Application Secret Key Expiration Date
   • Starting date for bill processing
4. Click Save.

Integrating an existing CloudSpend account

To integrate an existing CloudSpend account:

1. Navigate to Site24x7 > Cloud > Azure > Your Azure Account > CloudSpend.
2. In the Integrate Existing CloudSpend Account tab, select the cost accounts of your preference from the drop-down for CloudSpend integration.
3. Click Integrate CloudSpend Account.

Within a few minutes, the selected cost account will be integrated with Site24x7.

Integrating cost accounts for MSP Admin

For integration, there will be an MSP Customer drop-down right above the Choose Site24x7 Account drop-down. Upon selecting an MSP customer, Azure accounts associated with that customer will be filtered. Only one MSP customer can be selected at a time.
After adding the account using the drop-down, the cost account will get integrated to the respective MSP customer in Site24x7.

Integrating BU for Site24x7

To integrate your BUs in CloudSpend with Site24x7:

1. Click the Business Units tab. In the new Business Unitspage that opens, enter the following details:
   • Display Name: Provide the name of the BU.
   • Accounts: Choose the accounts of your preference.
   • Tags: Choose the associated tags.
2. Click Save to add the integration.

Within a few minutes, the BU will be listed on the Business Units page in Site24x7 web client.

Integrating BU for MSP Admin

When you create a BU for CloudSpend linked accounts, the associated MSP customers will be auto-selected. This BU will be integrated with the associated MSP customers in Site24x7 at the customer level.

Disabling the integration

You can disable an already existing integration by logging in to CloudSpend and navigating to Admin > General > Settings > Account Settings. Then, toggle to No next to Integrate with Site24x7.

After you disable the integration, you won't be able to view the integration-related details in the following pages in CloudSpend:

• The account addition and update page.
• The Business Unit addition and update page. The option to integrate the MSP Customers will also not be available.
• In the budget addition and update page. The Site24x7 alert options will also not be displayed.

After disabling the integration, you won't be able to view the following integration-related details in Site24x7:

• The new budget alarms won't be viewable. You will be able to view the previously raised budget-related alarms under the Alarms tab.
• The CloudSpend tab will not be available under Site24x7 > Cloud > Azure.
• The integrated CloudSpend accounts will not be displayed under Site24x7 > Cloud > Azure > Your Azure Account > CloudSpend. But you'll be able to see the Integrate CloudSpend option to enable the integration anytime.