# COST 3  How do you monitor usage and cost?
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Establish policies and procedures to monitor and appropriately allocate your costs. This allows you to measure and improve the cost efficiency of this workload.

**Topics**
+ [COST03-BP01 Configure detailed information sources](cost_monitor_usage_detailed_source.md)
+ [COST03-BP02 Identify cost attribution categories](cost_monitor_usage_define_attribution.md)
+ [COST03-BP03 Establish organization metrics](cost_monitor_usage_define_kpi.md)
+ [COST03-BP04 Configure billing and cost management tools](cost_monitor_usage_config_tools.md)
+ [COST03-BP05 Add organization information to cost and usage](cost_monitor_usage_org_information.md)
+ [COST03-BP06 Allocate costs based on workload metrics](cost_monitor_usage_allocate_outcome.md)