DoiT's industry-leading Anomaly Detection is now even better thanks to near real-time detection capabilities for AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) in addition to AWS EC2, thus powering more comprehensive and proactive cost monitoring.

This capability analyzes a range of usage metrics in near real-time for AWS services, including EC2 and RDS, allowing you to detect and address the unexpected spikes and approximate cost impact—well before they show up in billing data. By distinguishing alerts based on “Real-time usage data” (rather than traditional “Billing data”), users can quickly identify and manage anomalies, enabling better control over cloud spending.

To enable this functionality, you'll need to provide access to your central S3 bucket containing the event logs. This bucket can be located in any of the following five AWS regions: US East 1, US East 2, US West 2, EU West 1, and EU Central 1. Previously, we only supported S3 bucket in the US East 1 region; this expansion gives you greater flexibility to store and monitor logs in your preferred AWS region while using this powerful feature. 

Near real-time Anomaly Detection is available for customers on the DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced or Enterprise tiers, and those who have an active Cloud Navigator Enhanced, Premium, or Enterprise subscription. DoiT is also continuously enhancing coverage across more cloud providers and services. To learn more about Anomaly Detection, please refer to the documentation in the DoiT Help Center.

We've updated the DoiT console’s top navigation to create more intuitive feature groupings and make it easier for you to discover the functionalities you need, when you need them.

What's changing in the DoiT console navigation?

As part of these changes, we’ll be introducing new dropdown categories and reorganizing features:

1. Operate: Tools focused on the operational aspects of cloud management
2. Analyze: Features that provide visibility into your cloud environment
3. Monitor: Solutions that help you stay informed about your cloud activities
4. Optimize: Capabilities designed to improve your cloud efficiency
5. Integrations: Options for connecting DoiT with your wider technology ecosystem
6. Billing: Resources for managing your financial relationship with DoiT
7. Expert Inquiry: A direct path to expert assistance with no dropdown, providing immediate access to human cloud expertise or AI-powered cloud optimization advice via Ava.

Explore the redesigned navigation today to discover how these improvements will help you manage your cloud environment more efficiently. 

Available for AWS, Cloud Diagrams automatically visualizes your infrastructure in near-real time so you can slash incident resolution time and drive context-rich infrastructure decisions across teams.

With Cloud Diagrams, you can:

• Pinpoint issues faster: Visualize your AWS account's infrastructure (including services, resources, and connections) to trace problems directly to their source.
• Troubleshoot networking problems: Explore cross-account connections between VPCs, regions, and subnets to quickly resolve routing issues.
• Track changes over time: Use infrastructure snapshots and version history to quickly identify when and how issues may have been introduced.
• Break down knowledge silos: Improve collaboration between teams with an always up-to-date visual of your cloud infrastructure.

Whether you're troubleshooting critical production issues in the cloud or looking to improve collaboration across teams, Cloud Diagrams helps your team work smarter, not harder.

Ready to stop wondering what's in your cloud environment, and see it for yourself?

Explore Cloud Diagrams in the DoiT console, or take a self-guided tour today.

Cloud Diagrams is available for all the customers on the DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced or Enterprise tiers, as well as on the DoiT Cloud Navigator Enhanced, Premium or Enterprise tiers.

The new evolution of Ava, our AI assistant, is here! This newly improved version is designed to lay the foundation for an increasingly personalized experience and to help you get the most out of DoiT Cloud Intelligence™.

Key Highlights:

Actionable Insights at Your Fingertips

Ava processes data intelligently to provide actionable insights. Ask about costs, active anomalies, or current cloud incidents and receive immediate answers to resolve issues faster and optimize operations.

Seamless Transition Between AI and Humans

Ava revolutionizes how you access our support by enabling the ticket creation process during conversations. Now, Ava detects when you need help and guides you to include key details upfront, speeding up resolution times and improving your experience. With smooth transitions between Ava and our experts, every inquiry is managed quickly and effectively, taking support to the next level.

New User Interface

We’ve redesigned the interface to enhance the synergy between Ava and the powerful capabilities across DoiT Cloud Intelligence™. This streamlined experience minimizes the learning curve and ensures quick, precise access to the information you need to get the most out of our platform.

Foundation for a Personalized Experience

This new release sets the groundwork for interactions that will become increasingly tailored and more relevant to each user’s needs.

With the new Ava, we take a decisive step towards transforming the user experience—enhancing not only support but also your overall operational efficiency through our platform. 

Check our Helpcenter and discover how Ava can revolutionize the way you work in the cloud! 

Introducing DoiT CloudFlow, a no-code FinOps workflow solution that streamlines cloud operations and enhances cost efficiency across complex environments. With CloudFlow, you can build API-driven  automations that meet your unique business and operational needs within AWS, Google Cloud, and DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

CloudFlow empowers your organization to take action on FinOps recommendations, optimize workloads, reduce waste, and improve cost management. It works in conjunction with other DoiT Cloud Intelligence features, such as Insights, to proactively surface optimization opportunities. This allows you to identify and address inefficiencies early, leading to significant cost savings and better resource utilization.

This powerful tool not only improves your operational efficiency but also fosters collaboration within and across teams with one-touch approvals via email or Slack.

With its customizable blue prints, you can quickly implement best practices, ensuring cost optimization and compliance with minimal setup time. Plus, CloudFlow provides a detailed run history to help teams track workflow execution, troubleshoot, and ensure compliance with audit requirements.

Whether you're dealing with complex approval processes, dynamically managing cloud resources, or seeking to enhance FinOps adoption across your organization, CloudFlow can help your company save time and money.

Start creating your first CloudFlow today and experience the power of automated, intelligent FinOps management. 

Track and optimize your Datadog consumption alongside your cloud(s) spend with our latest integration for FinOps and engineering teams seeking unified visibility across all their IT investments. After connecting your Datadog account, you can explore your Datadog costs and usage in the DoiT console in several ways:

1. Datadog Lens: Ready-to-use dashboard providing a comprehensive overview of your Datadog usage.

2. Cost Allocation: Allocate your Datadog consumption and tags alongside your cloud and other 3rd-party tooling costs to business groupings with Attributions and Attribution Groups. See the example below:

Production Environment costs are defined via an Attribution as A) any resource in a Google Cloud project containing “prod” OR B) where any resource tagged with a Datadog environment tag with a value of prod:

3. Custom Reports: Build reports that help you understand aspects of your Datadog spend. For example:

Platform costs broken down by environment (for understanding how your different environments are impacting overall costs across your cloud(s) and Datadog)

Costs per host where a Datadog agent is installed (so that you can learn which resources have the agent installed or driving the cost)

Dashboard popularity trends (for identifying which dashboards are used the least that you might want to remove or modify)

4. Anomaly Detection: Automatically surface unusual patterns in your teams’ Datadog usage and take action before it impacts your bill and operations.

5. Unified view of IT costs: View Datadog costs alongside your cloud costs in Pulse dashboard, a preset dashboard giving you an at-a-glance view of all your cloud and 3rd party tooling costs together.

The Datadog integration is available for all the customers on the DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced or Enterprise tiers, as well as on the DoiT Cloud Navigator Enhanced, Premium or Enterprise tiers. To learn more about Datadog integration please check out our documentation in the DoiT Help Center.

DoiT Cloud Intelligence now has a new Google-specific Insight that Google Cloud customers may not know about yet, but which will soon be critical to avoid unnecessary spend increases. This new Insight detects Cloud SQL major versions that reach end-of-life (EOL) by their developer communities. If your instance is running an EOL major version, then you will be charged for extended support starting on May 1, 2025.

As with our other Insights recommendations, we provide you with the total estimated savings for your infrastructure, broken down by project and instance so you can better prioritize your action plan. You can also engage the DoiT support team directly from the page, or create a Thread to alert your engineering team via Jira.

To read more about the latest Insights releases and how these can help you manage your cloud spend, read our latest blog post.

Note: Insights is available to DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced and Enterprise customers

DoiT Insights now surfaces Security & Cost Optimization recommendations from AWS Trusted Advisor, allowing you to view all your recommendations — both DoiT-generated (automated + via DoiT experts) and Trusted Advisor-generated — from the DoiT console.

To view your Trusted Advisor recommendations, you will need to link any AWS accounts with AWS Business Support and above to the DoiT console. When going to your Insights main page you will see a banner highlighting that you have AWS accounts eligible for Trusted Advisor-generated insights:

Click on Add permissions and you will be directed to the account setup page filtered to the right accounts.

Following this release, which focuses on the Cost Optimization and Security check categories, we’ll continue to work on incorporating the rest of the check categories (ex. Performance) into DoiT Insights.

Note: Trusted Advisor recommendations are only available for resources in AWS accounts with AWS Business Support and above.

DoiT's industry leading anomaly detection solution just got better with the ability to detect and alert for AWS cost spikes in close to real time. Rather than solely relying on the AWS billing data- which refreshes every 24 hours- to detect anomalies, DoiT Anomaly Detection can now also analyze usage metrics in near real time to catch cost spikes even before they show up in billing data.

This ability to take immediate action on anomalous AWS spend will be a big help for cloud operations teams in their efforts to keep cloud spend under control. By getting alerted as soon as costs go beyond their expected range, teams can quickly investigate and diagnose the problem, then take any necessary steps to remediate the issue. This capability is currently limited to AWS EC2 service only, but we more will be adding more cloud services in the coming months. DoiT users can tell whether an anomaly is based on real-time data because the source will be “Real-time usage data” rather than “Billing data.”

You can also determine whether an anomaly is still an ongoing issue by using the “Active” and “Inactive” labels, as well as being able to see if an anomaly has been acknowledged by another member of the team, all for the larger purpose of ensuring that unexpected surges in cost are dealt with quickly to minimize the impact on the monthly cloud bill.

This near-real-time capability for DoiT Anomaly Detection is limited to customers who are subscribed to a DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced or Enterprise plan. To learn more about our Anomaly Detection solution, please consult the documentation in the DoiT Help Center.