We are excited to announce that DoiT Anomaly detection can now provide up-to-date anomaly status and insights.

Previously, the cost anomaly list page showed the cost anomaly and its start time, but it was unclear whether this anomaly was still active or not. On the anomaly detail screen, the graph only showed a snapshot of the cost at the time of detection. To view updates, customers needed to open the related cost report and had to manually validate if the anomaly was still active or not.

Now we have introduced an anomaly status, whether active or inactive. By default, the anomaly list screen will only show active anomalies. When a customer selects an anomaly, the detail screen will show the up-to-date status of an anomaly with updated graph values, according to the latest available cost data. Updates will continue to be made until the cost escalation stabilizes or is reversed and the anomaly becomes inactive, which will also be indicated on the graph.

We are confident that dynamic anomalies will save customers manual effort and help them address anomalies in a more timely manner.

We are excited to announce that DoiT Anomaly Detection can now detect a cost anomaly for an individual SKU (Stock Keeping Units). By isolating the individual SKUs driving a cost spike, you’ll get a more detailed analysis, making it easier to quickly pinpoint and address the source of an anomaly.

Previously, DoiT Anomaly Detection detected anomalies on a per-service level, notifying you of a cost anomaly on a service (ex. S3), along with a cost breakdown of the SKUs for that service (ex. EU-Request-Tier2). However, this meant you had to manually identify the SKU and the resource(s) causing the anomaly. With this change, your anomaly alerts will pinpoint the SKU for you, and highlight all the cloud resources contributing to the SKU’s cost increase, speeding up your time-to-resolution.

We are confident that the SKU-level cost anomaly alerting will make it easier for you to manage your costs and keep your business running smoothly. 

When you have different people and teams in your organization trying to understand and manage their cloud spend, it's important to begin categorizing and organizing the work each person and team is doing.

That’s why you can now create labels in the DoiT console which you can assign to Reports, Attributions, Alerts, and more.

This way, you can better filter for resources that matter to your team or yourself, and communicate that across your organization.

We are excited to announce that the data backing our BigQuery Lens is now available in our flexible and powerful Cloud Analytics Reporting interface. The breakdown and analysis of your BigQuery usage generates insights, reporting, and recommendations in our BigQuery Lens feature.

Often, you need to get a more customized view of your data than what is provided in the BigQuery Lens. Now, that is possible within our Cloud Cost and Usage Analytics interface. You can now report on cost and usage using new dimensions such as User, Statement Type, Event Name, Query Configuration data, and more. 

BigQuery Lens data is imported in near-real time as it is collected, analyzed, and aggregated in our backend. Using this data, you can create custom reports and dashboards to track the KPIs you find most important to govern your BigQuery Usage. Additionally, subscribe to the most important to have insights delivered right to your inbox. 

To access this data:

1. Enable BigQuery Lens.
2. Navigate to Cloud Analytics.
3. Click on the "Update" button to the right of Data Source at the top of the configuration panel.
4. Choose "BigQuery Lens"

Report on BigQuery usage by User or Heavy Queries by Query Description. Everything is available to use flexibly, use it to create new reports or customized dashboards.

Azure Lens gives you a clear and simple overview of your Azure infrastructure costs over time. With Azure Lens, you can identify major cost centers to drive your single or multicloud practice more effectively.

For more information or to explore Azure Lens capabilities, visit our Help Center.

We’re thrilled to announce major updates to DoiT Ramp Plans, which help you visualize, manage, and track your cloud commit attainment.

These updates give you a more accurate, flexible, and granular view of how you are performing against your contractual commitments.

Here's what you can expect:

1. Easier to customize: Ramp Plans are now based on Attributions instead of invoices, giving you more flexibility when you need to customize the scope of your Ramp Plan, and providing a more accurate view of your commit-eligible cloud spend.

2. Daily Updates: As a result, Ramp Plans are now updated daily, giving you a more current view of your cloud spend.

3. Improved UI: We added new information to your Ramp Plans, giving you a better overview of your progress towards your commitment. 

4. Modify growth projections easily: We made it easier for you to change your planned spend projections and build in different intervals of growth.

→ For a more detailed look at these improvements, check out the video below and our Product Documentation.

By tracking your commit attainment you’ll stay on top of any opportunities to sign an early recommit with even better terms, or situations where you might be behind schedule.

We're confident these improvements will enhance your cloud commitment tracking and management. As always, we're here for any questions or support you need. Don't hesitate to reach out!

We are extremely excited to announce that we have now added Azure Billing data for our consolidated customers.  Cloud Analytics reports give you instant visibility into your cloud costs and now include all consolidated clouds supported by DoiT. You'll be able to slice and dice your cloud spend and uncover cost and performance optimization opportunities for your organization.  Today this improvement will empower our Azure customers to use our most powerful and popular features:

1. Reports: Get instant visibility and gain insights into your cloud usage and spending at all levels.
2. Dashboards: Maintain multiple dashboards in your DoiT Console to visualize metrics, manage licenses, and access essential data for your organization.
3. Create alerts: Track various dimensions in your cloud environments.
4. Manage budgets: Define the scope of a budget, for example, a budget for a team or a product.
5. Monitor cost anomalies: Monitor cost anomalies in a subset of your overall cloud spend.
6. Daily cost digests: Receive daily email digests on your spending for the scope of your attributions.
7. Manage organizations: Provide a focused Cloud Analytics experience to a group of users.
8. Collaboration: Share critical Azure data with colleagues via Slack and Email
9. Integrations: Connect your data to your systems and workflows

Customers configured with Azure billing now have complete access to the full power of the DoiT console - providing even greater multicloud cost and usage visibility. 
You can learn about how we've mapped our new Billing Dimensions in the DoiT Help Center. Data is current from January 1st, 2023

We wanted to make it easy to quickly surface any information you need around your cloud consumption. That’s why we're excited to announce Search functionality in the DoiT Console!

Search makes it easy to quickly access a wide range of content right from the console — whether it's a Report or Attribution your team created, an Invoice...you name it!

Just start typing in the search bar and we'll suggest relevant content. With a few keystrokes, you'll find the content you’re looking for in no time. See it in action below!

With Subtotals, you can now aggregate metrics for each grouping level you add in Reports. This allows you to quickly understand how each category contributes to the total of your bill while still seeing the granularity. You can enable this by simply toggling the "Include subtotals" checkbox in the Group by section:

We are thrilled to unveil Ava, the latest evolution in DoiT's GenAI technology. With this inaugural public release, you can bypass the traditional Help Center search and instead ask questions about the DoiT Console using natural language right on the platform.

This upgrade significantly enhances the DoiT documentation accessibility, enabling FinOps professionals to submit natural language inquiries within the DoiT Console Docs (help.doit.com). Ava will assist by highlighting pertinent sections or pulling precise data from the documentation. Consequently, FinOps experts can minimize reading time and allocate more time to fine-tuning their cloud infrastructure.

Over the last half-year, Ava has been a game-changer in improving various internal processes at DoiT. It has significantly facilitated information acquisition, enrichment, and content optimization for the Customer Reliability Engineering team. Furthermore, it has established itself as an invaluable asset in our Anomaly Detection capabilities, assisting customers in identifying and tracking the roots of cloud cost irregularities with greater precision.

To embark on this enhanced experience, visit help.doit.com, click the search bar, and select the "Ask a question" tab to begin your first Ava interaction!

Now, we're elevating Ava's role, offering direct access to our customers and users to boost the efficacy of FinOps professionals further. We are in the midst of crafting a host of new functionalities centered on Ava technology, encompassing streamlined cost report creation and tackling complex cloud issues across AWS, GCP, and Azure platforms. Stay tuned for a series of exciting updates coming your way!