How to govern Costs in Copilot
A step-by-step guide to governing Costs in Copilot with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Costs in Copilot means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Copilot with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Costs.
Steps
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Inventory Copilot
Connect Copilot and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Costs in Copilot to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Copilot reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Copilot controls for Costs
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Copilot catalog on the Copilot connector page.
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Copilot License Assigned to Disabled Account
Flags disabled accounts retaining active Copilot licenses, enabling immediate cost recovery through license reassignment.
Severity: High -
Inactive Copilot Users - 30 Days
Reports on users with unused Copilot licenses for 30+ days, enabling proactive engagement or license reallocation. This policy only works correctly with non-anonymized data.
Severity: Medium -
Unassigned Copilot License Pool
Tracks unassigned Copilot licenses available for immediate deployment to maximize investment value
