Cost platform
Basic plan and aboveScheduled reports
A report is a saved page of your cost data that Lineman emails to the people who need it, on a schedule. It is for the colleague who will never open a dashboard, and it is the difference between spend being visible and spend being noticed.
What a report is
A named, composed page: the widgets you choose, arranged how you want them, scoped to the filters you set. It is built once and re-rendered against fresh data every time it is sent, so a report you made in March is describing this week when it arrives.
The filter scope travels with the report. A report scoped to one repository stays scoped to it, so the finance team's copy and the platform team's copy can be genuinely different views of the same account.
Who can manage them
Reports are an administrator surface. Members and auditors can receive one; creating, editing and scheduling them is limited to administrators, because a report is a standing instruction to email company cost data on a recurring basis.
Recipients must be people already on your team. Lineman will not send a scheduled cost report to an address that is not a registered member, because a report is company-confidential and an address typed into a box is not an access-control decision.
How many, and how often
What your plan includes:
Basic keeps up to three reports, sent weekly or monthly.
Pro and Enterprise have no limit on how many reports you keep, and can send daily.
The limits are counted per company, not per administrator, so a team of three admins shares one allowance rather than getting one each.
Delivery
A schedule sets the cadence, the day, the hour, and who receives it. Daily needs no day; weekly takes a day of the week; monthly takes a day of the month, capped at the 28th so a report never skips February.
The hour is local to the schedule, not UTC, so a report set for 08:00 arrives before the working day rather than during the night.
Send a test before you arm it. It renders and delivers the real thing to you alone, which is the only reliable way to find out that a widget you meant to include is not there.
Pausing and changing
A schedule can be disarmed without being deleted, which is what you want for a report that matters quarterly. Editing the report itself changes every future send; it does not retroactively change one that has already gone out.