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articles/cost-management-billing/costs/customize-cost-analysis-views.md

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ titleSuffix: Microsoft Cost Management
 description:  This article helps you customize views in cost analysis to understand how you're being charged and to investigate unexpected changes.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 08/20/2024
+ms.date: 01/07/2025
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: cost-management
-ms.reviewer: micflan
+ms.reviewer: shasulin
 ---
 
 # Customize views in cost analysis
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Classic virtual machines, networking, and storage resources don't share detailed
 
 Cost analysis doesn't support grouping by multiple attributes. To work around it, you can apply a filter for a desired attribute and group by the more detailed attribute. For instance, filter down to a specific resource group, then group by resource.
 
-Pivot charts under the main chart show different groupings, which give you a broader picture of your overall costs for the selected time period and filters. Select a property or tag to view aggregated costs by any dimension.
+Pivot charts under the main chart show different groupings, which give you a broader picture of your overall costs for the selected time period and filters. Select a property or tag to view aggregated costs by any dimension. When you apply a filter to the main chart, the filter also affects pivot charts. Costs are filtered, too. Pivot charts also align to the actual or amortized metric selected for the main chart and to the currency. Pivot charts aren't aligned with **Group by** or **Granularity** selections applied to the main chart.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/customize-cost-analysis-views/pivot-charts.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing pivot charts." lightbox="./media/customize-cost-analysis-views/pivot-charts.png" :::
 

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-acm-cost-analysis.md

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 ---
 title: Quickstart - Start using Cost analysis
-description: This quickstart helps you use cost analysis to explore and analyze your Azure organizational costs.
+description: Learn how to use Azure Cost Analysis to explore and analyze your organizational costs, identify trends, and understand spending patterns.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 11/01/2024
+ms.date: 01/07/2025
 ms.topic: quickstart
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: cost-management
 ms.reviewer: shasulin
 ms.custom: mode-other
+#customer intent: As a billing administrator, I want to use cost analysis so that I can explore and analyze my Azure organizational costs.
 ---
 
 # Quickstart: Start using Cost analysis
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ Views in the **Recommended** list might vary based on what users most commonly u
 
 ## Analyze costs with smart views
 
-If you're new to Cost analysis, we recommend starting with a smart view, like the Resources view. Smart views include:
+If you're new to Cost analysis, we recommend starting with a smart view, like the Services view. Smart views include:
 
 - Key performance indicators (KPIs) to summarize your cost
 - Intelligent insights about your costs like anomaly detection
@@ -60,7 +61,8 @@ If showing three months or less, the Average cost API compares the cost from the
 We recommend checking your cost weekly to ensure each KPI remains within the expected range. If you recently deployed or changed resources, we recommend checking daily for the first week or two to monitor the cost changes.
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> If you want to monitor your forecasted cost, you can enable the [Forecast KPI preview feature](enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs.md#forecast-in-the-resources-view) in Cost Management Labs, available from the **Try preview** command.
+> - If you want to monitor your forecasted cost, you can enable the [Forecast KPI preview feature](enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs.md#forecast-in-the-resources-view) in Cost Management Labs, available from the **Try preview** command.
+> - When you set the granularity to **Daily** for any view, the date range should span a maximum of three months. However, when at the management group scope, only a date range of one month is supported.
 
 If you don't have a budget, select the **create** link in the **Budget** KPI and specify the amount you expect to stay under each month. To create a quarterly or yearly budget, select the **Configure advanced settings** link.
 
@@ -83,9 +85,6 @@ This view is where you spend most of your time in Cost analysis. To explore furt
 5. Open other smart views to get different perspectives on your costs.
 6. Open a customizable view and apply other filters or group the data to explore further.
 
->[!NOTE]
->If you want to visualize and monitor daily trends within the period, enable the [chart preview feature](enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs.md#chartsfeature) in Cost Management Labs, available from the **Try preview** command.
-
 Data sources for smart views are as follows:
 
 - Reservations – Source data is from amortized usage and charges.

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/save-share-views.md

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
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 title: Save and share customized views
 titleSuffix: Microsoft Cost Management
-description: This article explains how to save and share a customized view with others.
+description: Learn how to save and share customized views in Cost Management. This guide explains how to preserve cost analysis views and share them with others.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 11/23/2023
+ms.date: 01/07/2025
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: cost-management
-ms.reviewer: micflan
+ms.reviewer: shasulin
+#customer intent: As a billing administrator, I want to learn how to save and share views so that I can share views with others.
 ---
 
 # Save and share customized views
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ A *view* is a saved query in Cost Management. When you save a view, all settings
 
 Check out the [Sharing and saving views](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQkXXj-SmvQ) video.
 
-After you save a view, you can share a link to it with others using the **Share** command. The link is specific to your current scope and view configuration. The link doesn't grant others access to the view itself, which might change over time, or the underlying data. If you don't have access to the scope, an `access denied` message is shown. We recommend using the Cost Management Contributor role to allow others to save and share views with others.
+After you save a view, you can share a link to it with others using the **Share** command. The link is specific to your current scope and view configuration. The link doesn't grant others access to the view itself, which might change over time, or the underlying data. If you don't have access to the scope, an `access denied` message is shown. We recommend using the Cost Management Contributor role to allow others to save and share views. A saved view, whether it's private or shared, saves only the specific filters selected for the view. To update the filters in a saved or shared view, you might need to remove the existing filters and recreate a new one with the updated values.
 
 You can also pin the current view to an Azure portal dashboard. Pinning only includes a snapshot of the main chart or table and doesn't update when the view is updated. A pinned dashboard isn't the same thing as a saved view.