Overview
Azure Documenter supports a range of reporting scenarios across cost, compliance, security, and architecture, for teams that need recurring, shareable documentation rather than one-off manual exports.
Business value
- Replace manual, ad-hoc reporting with repeatable document configurations
- Give different stakeholders the document type that matches their needs, without building custom reports
- Support audits and reviews with evidence-based documentation rather than screenshots
How it works
The following scenarios illustrate how teams typically use Azure Documenter.
Monthly cost and executive reporting
A cloud administrator or finance stakeholder needs a recurring summary of resource and billing activity. They configure an Executive summary or Billing details document with a fixed billing date range and currency, and generate it monthly to share with leadership or finance teams.
Cost optimization reviews
A cloud administrator wants to identify savings opportunities before a budget review. They generate a Rightsizing recommendations document to find over-provisioned resources, and a Reservation recommendations document to evaluate potential savings of up to 60% through Azure Reserved Instances.
Security and compliance audits
A security or compliance team needs to demonstrate regulatory adherence. They generate a Security compliance document for a subscription-wide assessment and an Access details document to review who has access to what.
Architecture documentation and onboarding
A team lead wants to explain how a set of Azure resources supports a particular business process (for example, onboarding a new engineer or preparing for an incident response review). They use the Diagrams area to map the relevant resources across subscriptions into a single architecture view.
Governance reporting via a knowledge base
An organization wants generated documents to live in a searchable, shareable location instead of static files. They configure the publish platform to Document360, so each generated document is published directly to a knowledge base project instead of being distributed as a file.