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Direct, practical guidance for connecting Hetzner Cloud, tracking current spend, configuring budgets, and eliminating idle waste.
First week on CloudTally
Key onboarding milestones to establish cost visibility and evaluate capabilities during your 21-day trial:
Connect your Hetzner project
Link your first project with a read-only API token and verify initial spend data.
Understand your dashboard
Review month-to-date accruals, spend trends, and month-end projections.
Create your first budget
Establish spend ceilings and configure alert thresholds for unexpected increases.
Configure alerts and notifications
Route alerts to your in-app inbox, email recipients, or Slack.
Investigate spend changes
Analyse period-over-period cost deltas and inspect resource lifecycle events.
Find waste and review rightsizing
Identify idle infrastructure and evaluate evidence-based rightsizing suggestions.
Invite your team
Add collaborators and assign appropriate role permissions across your organisation.
Evaluate plans and trial transition
Understand Free vs Pro quotas, billing mechanics, and subscription settings.
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Use CloudTally
Navigate your CloudTally dashboard, track month-to-date cloud spend, evaluate month-end spend projections, monitor budget health, and analyse cost breakdowns.
Read the month-end forecast explanation, understand recent rates and changes, and see how monthly caps affect the projection.
Review period costs, filter resources, and compare project totals on the Costs screen.
Use Cost Explorer to analyse spending deltas, identify top cost drivers, inspect resource timelines, and account for Hetzner billing caps.
Use Cost Explorer to compare the cost of resources grouped by shared labels.
Set up infrastructure budgets, configure threshold evaluations, monitor spend progress, and manage budget quotas in CloudTally.
Set up notification delivery channels, manage alert type preferences, configure custom routing rules, and monitor delivery health in CloudTally.
Detect unused Hetzner resources, evaluate rightsizing recommendations with observed utilisation, and export findings.
Review monthly cost breakdowns in your browser, queue on-demand report deliveries, and configure monthly report schedules.
Account and trust
Manage organisation members, configure role permissions, and understand CloudTally's token security and organisation data access.
Open the Help & support menu and send a message through the public contact page.
Compare Free and Pro plan capabilities, understand the 21-day trial lifecycle, and manage billing settings and subscription behaviour.