Managed Carbon Footprint dashboard by Evidi

Evidi are a managed services provider specializing in Microsoft stack. Andre is the head of Evidi’s Managed Cloud Cost Monitoring & Optimization service, and he uses SquaredUp dashboards to help customers slash cloud expenses and maximize efficiency.

Dashboard overview

This dashboard tracks carbon emissions by service type, helping organizations visualize and manage their environmental impact. It shows monthly trends and key metrics such as total emissions, changes from the previous month, and specific service contributions.

How we use the dashboard

Our customers are increasingly becoming more conscious of their carbon footprint (especially in Norway where we love the environment) and that's a great thing! So this dashboard was created to give our customers some insight into their Azure footprint.

An alternate measure of success

It’s not exactly the sort of dashboard that you look at and immediately think, oh we can cut costs here, but it is heavily correlated to good resource management and by extension, cost. By displaying carbon consumption as a KPI and showing its increases and decreases we see a different measure of the results of our downscaling, cutting, or having autoscaling enabled.

What we display

At a glance you can see this month’s CO2 emissions alongside last month’s, and you can also see carbon emissions by service type. It’s clear immediately that we use a lot of Service Bus, Storage and Azure App Service. And the percentage change from last month is helpful to see from my cost-cutting team’s perspective. It’s helpful for customers to be able to quickly see if things are going in the right direction.

You can also see carbon footprint by resource group and subscription. Plus some fun layman examples – such as number of smartphone charges and km of flight – of what your carbon emission numbers actually translate into

These visualizations were created from data provided by Microsoft Azure’s Sustainability APIs, released in early 2024.

Evidi's full SquaredUp story

The best part is that with SquaredUp, we have been able to build out a core set of dashboards that provide a holistic picture of our customers – both at an individual level and as a big picture overview.

Read our case study to learn about how we built the perfect suite of dashboards for MSPs, or anyone trying to slash costs and maximize efficiency.