# Cloud Growth Overview

**Purpose:** Where cloud cost sits and which parts of it are moving. A treemap sized by spend per subscription over a resource-level grid carrying daily, month-to-date, and year-to-date cost with a thirty-day growth figure per resource.

![Cloud Growth Overview showing a cost treemap by subscription with trend arrows and a granularity selector](https://visualoneintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/voi-docs-cloud-growth-overview-treemap.png)

## When to use it

- See at a glance which subscription dominates spend
- Find the individual resources driving growth rather than the ones that are merely large
- Break spend down by service, resource type, or geography
- Spot resources that are provisioned and failing, which cost money and deliver nothing

## Key areas and metrics

- **$ Granularity.** Sets the period every figure covers, commonly `Month (MTD)`.
- **Total Cost.** Stated above the treemap, so the tiles have a denominator.
- **Treemap.** One tile per subscription, area proportional to cost, each tile labelled with its own figure and carrying a trend arrow showing direction against the prior period.
- **Resource grid.** The detail behind the tiles, typically running to hundreds or thousands of rows.

![Cloud Growth Overview grid with service, resource group, resource type, geography, subscription, daily, month to date and year to date cost, thirty day growth and status columns](https://visualoneintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/voi-docs-cloud-growth-overview-grid.png)

| Column group | Columns |
| --- | --- |
| Identity | Service, Resource Group, Resource Type, Geography, Subscription |
| Cost | Daily Cost, MTD Cost, YTD Cost |
| Movement | 30-Day Growth, shown as a directional arrow with a percentage, or a dash where there is no comparison period |
| State | Status, for example succeeded or unknown |

## Size and growth are different questions

The treemap answers which subscriptions are big. The 30-Day Growth column answers which resources are changing. Those rarely point at the same thing, and growth is the more actionable of the two: a large stable subscription is a known cost, while a small resource growing steeply is next quarter's problem and is far cheaper to address now.

The Status column is worth a pass of its own. A resource with a non-succeeded status and a non-zero daily cost is being billed for something that is not working, and those are easy to leave in place for months because nothing else surfaces them.

## Common actions

- **Sort by 30-Day Growth descending** to get the movers, then filter to non-zero cost so you are not reading noise.
- **Group by Geography** to expose spend in regions nobody intended to deploy into, which is a common finding in a multi-team tenant.
- **Group by Resource Type** to see which service families dominate, which is the input to a commitment or reservation conversation.
- **Filter Status to anything other than succeeded** and check the cost columns beside it.

## Tips

> A YTD Cost column reading zero across every row while MTD carries figures means the year-to-date aggregation has not populated. Use MTD for anything you intend to report until that is resolved.

## Related screens

[Cloud All Units](https://visualoneintelligence.com/docs/cloud-all-units/) is the subscription-level inventory behind the treemap. [Cloud Resource Group Forecast](https://visualoneintelligence.com/docs/cloud-resource-group-forecast/) projects a single resource group forward. [Disk Used Trend](https://visualoneintelligence.com/docs/cloud-disk-used-trend/) covers the storage dimension of the same growth.

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Source: https://visualoneintelligence.com/docs/cloud-growth-overview/