Enable Google Cloud's new GKE Cost Allocation feature for better insight into the costs of your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads in DoiT Cloud Analytics Reports.

Once enabled, you’ll be able to report on your GKE cluster, namespace, and pod costs in Cloud Analytics Reports alongside non-K8s billing data.

Follow these instructions to enable GKE Cost Allocation on each of your clusters. As there's no historical backfill, the sooner you enable this, the more data you'll have to report on.

The anomaly detection engine is always running identifying increased costs from predicted normal ranges. However, not every cost anomaly is urgent or costly enough to require immediate intervention.  

We are excited to announce new options to better target the set of anomalies that you want to know about immediately.

You can now choose email notifications for email alerts on detected anomalies based on:

1. Severity of anomaly - "Only email me for Urgent anomalies"
2. The cost of the anomaly - "Don't email me unless the anomaly costs me more than $100"

All anomalies will continue to be detected and show both in the CMP Cost Anomaly List and be sent to Shared Slack Channels.  We will be extending this configurability further into our notifications coming soon!

Please read more about this feature here

As part of our Customer Reliability Engineering service, we provide advisory and engineering support for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as our own products - Flexsave, Cloud Analytics, Spot Scaling and Anomaly Detection. To request support or advisory, our customers submit tickets using our platform.

After serving almost 100k requests to thousands of customers during the last decade, we have a unique perspective on how our customers are using the request submission process. Based on these observations, we have released a new and improved flow.

Among many improvements, we believe that these are the most important:

• More distinctive cloud-platform selection, with visual aids.
• Better-organised product selection, including based on most common requests.
• Products are sorted alphabetically
• Easier to read ticket severity, including on-screen guidance.
• Ability to re-edit previously made choices along the wizard.

Two months ago, we launched a feature that enables custom Single Sign-on applications to provision, de-provision, and set permissions for users in the DoiT Cloud Management Platform (CMP).

Learn how to enable SSO here.

Starting with this release, you can report on Google Cloud Tags directly in DoiT Cloud Cost Analytics.

The Google Cloud resource hierarchy is a way to organize your resources into a tree structure. While the hierarchy helps manage resources at scale, it is limited to modeling only a few business dimensions, such as organization structure, regions, workload types, cost centers, etc. The hierarchy lacks the flexibility to layer multiple business dimensions together.

Unlike labels, tags provide a way to conditionally allow or deny policies based on whether a resource has a specific tag. You can use tags and conditional enforcement of policies for fine-grained control across your resource hierarchy. 

We have some great news to share with you today - projects now include name and number dimensions! This means that when you create reports, you'll be able to see not only the project id, but also the project name and project number.

This is an excellent addition for those of you who like to keep track of your projects in a more granular way. The project name and number dimensions will help you do just that.

As always, thanks for using Cloud Analytics. If you have any questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Confirming your cloud partner has a transparent and robust security posture is table stakes. With this in mind, we are launching a DoiT Trust & Security center to provide extraordinary transparency to our customers and partners around security and compliance at DoiT.

Our Trust & Security center includes answers to the most commonly asked questions as well as secure access to our compliance reports such as SOC 2 Type 2, ISO27001, GDPR and more.

Customers and partners can access Trust & Security center by selecting "Trust and security" from the "Help" ('?') menu.

DoiT Cloud Analytics allows you to build advanced cloud expenditure reports and share them with your team.

Grafana is multi-platform open source analytics and monitoring solution. It supports popular time-series data sources such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, Elasticsearch, and more.

If you're using Grafana for monitoring your environments, adding cloud cost analytics will give you a single pane of glass that presents events, cloud costs, and alerts.

Organization administrators can now leverage custom Single Sign-on applications to provision, de-provision, and set permissions for users in the DoiT Cloud Management Platform (CMP). This new level of control and security enables the management of CMP users within a single directory.

The CMP supports Identity Providers (IdP) in the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocols. To get started, administrators can go to the settings menu and select ‘Authentication.’

Learn how to enable SSO here.