Documentation
CloudTally docs
Connect Hetzner, find the costs that surprise you, and decide whether Pro is worth it. Direct, practical guidance — no fluff.
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Pick the role that matches what you're doing today. You can always read the others later.
DevOps engineer
Connect your projects, interpret cost data, and find idle infrastructure before the bill arrives.
Connect Hetzner in 5 minutes
FinOps analyst
Set budgets, configure alerts, review recommendations, and export the numbers you need.
Set up your first budget
Financial controller
Get a clean monthly view, downloadable reports, and the audit trail your finance team expects.
Walk through the first week
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Follow the day-by-day path. Each day takes ten minutes, and by day seven you'll know if Pro is worth it.
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Get started
Three short tutorials. Each gets you to a visible result in under ten minutes.
From a read-only API token to your first cost chart in five minutes.
Create a monthly budget, wire up email alerts, and see budget risk on the dashboard.
A day-by-day path through the 21-day trial — what to do, what to look for, when to decide.
How-to guides
Recipes for specific tasks. Use these when you already know what you want to do.
Connect a second project under the same organization.
Replace a leaked or expiring token without losing history.
Stop syncing temporarily, or disconnect a project cleanly.
Use What Changed and Top Drivers to find what jumped and why.
Month-over-month and custom period comparison.
Group by resource type or individual resource to surface the highest spend.
Trigger an email at 50%, 80%, or 100% of a budget.
Pick the right period and learn what each tracks.
See total commitment and combined risk across every budget. Pro.
Spot servers running flat and decide whether to keep, downsize, or stop them.
Find volumes that survived a deleted server and are still billed.
Per-resource savings estimates and bulk actions. Pro.
Resize over-provisioned servers based on observed CPU and memory. Pro.
Hide noise without losing the audit trail.
Send an invitation link and assign a role.
What Owner, Admin, Member, and Viewer can each do.
Switch between Free and Pro, mid-cycle behaviour, and refunds.
The Pro → Free transition: what you keep, what gets gated.
Reference
Specifications, tables, and limits. Look here when you need an exact value.
Free vs Pro, in detail. Includes 21-day reverse trial mechanics.
Side-by-side capability list for Free and Pro.
The full permission matrix by role.
How long cost history, audit logs, and other data are kept by plan.
Background sync frequency, on-demand sync availability, and rate limits.
What alert channels CloudTally supports today.
Plain definitions for CloudTally terms used across the product.
Concepts
The reasoning behind how CloudTally works. Read these when something surprises you.
Pricing inputs, billing windows, and how monthly caps are applied.
Why costs on some resources drop to zero late in the month and resume on the 1st.
Baseline projection, spike handling, and category drivers.
What CloudTally flags as waste and the thresholds it uses.
How recommendations are generated and how confident they are.
Row-level security, organization scoping, and what isolation guarantees we make.
Where your data is stored, how it's processed, and what's in our DPA.