Quick Start

Follow these four steps to start seeing your cloud costs in Troposphere.

1. Create your account#

Visit the signup page and register with your work email address. You will receive a verification email – click the link to activate your account.

2. Create an organisation#

After signing in for the first time, Troposphere will prompt you to create an organisation. The organisation is the top-level container for all of your cloud connections, cost buckets, and team members. Give it a name that matches your company or business unit.

3. Connect a cloud provider#

Navigate to Inventory > Connections and click Add Connection. Choose your provider and follow the on-screen instructions to grant Troposphere read-only access to your billing data.

Troposphere ingests the previous day’s spend data on each sync – it does not backfill historical billing. Initial ingestion usually completes within a few minutes, though accounts with a large number of resources may take longer on the first sync.

4. Explore your costs#

Once ingestion finishes, head to Costs > Overview. From here you can:

• See total spend for the current or previous month.
• View a breakdown by connection to see which accounts drive the most cost.
• Switch to Costs > Forecasts to project your end-of-month spend across the next 1, 3, or 6 months.
• Head to Costs > Cost Buckets to group spend by team or product and attach a monthly budget.

You are now up and running. Next, check the Cloud Connections guides for details on adding additional providers, or explore the Guides section for deeper walkthroughs.