Tracing budgets that finance actually trusts

Finance teams rarely dispute CPU graphs; they dispute ownership of shared costs. We walk through exemplar-based sampling so spikes map to services, not mystery buckets.

Second, we compare monthly roll-ups versus daily anomaly bursts, with a worksheet you can paste into planning calls.

We end with a candid limitation: if your tagging hygiene is empty, tracing alone cannot invent accountability—you still need policy work.