We are pleased to announce the new addition of Discover cards to the home dashboard in the DoiT Console!

These dynamic cards are designed to enhance your experience with our platform by providing quick and easy access to informative content.

Discover Cards offer a range of valuable insights, from product FAQs to onboarding surveys, and live and on-demand sessions. They serve as your personalized guide to our products and services, helping you stay informed and make the most of what DoiT has to offer.

Enjoy discovering with the Discover Cards!

As we continue to innovate and grow, one thing remains constant — our commitment to making life easier for developers. We understand the complexities of managing cloud services, and that’s why we’re excited to announce a brand new feature in our analytics arsenal — the reports.query() API call.

Imagine you’re running applications on both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). You want to understand your recent spending on specific services like AWS EC2 or GCP BigQuery over the last week. Ordinarily, that would involve considerable time spent digging through separate dashboards or interfaces to collate the data.

Read more about how to use reports.query() in our recent blog post.

We are thrilled to share a significant upgrade to Cloud Incidents. This feature now provides even more advanced monitoring capabilities for the availability and uptime of your cloud infrastructure. With this update, you can gather deeper insights into the performance and accessibility of your infrastructure on both Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

Cloud Incidents are critical events, such as outages, that may potentially affect the performance or availability of your application or services. DoiT Console normally presents these incidents in a table view, sorted by regions and services, including those that don't provide region information, like global services incidents.

Today, we're taking this a step further by incorporating a more comprehensive view of the availability of your cloud, or even multicloud, infrastructure, a feature often expected from top-tier infrastructure monitoring solutions.

The new "Cloud infrastructure availability" chart allows you to explore your overall availability over a selected period, providing insights into the entirety of your cloud infrastructure or your specific services. This easy-to-understand chart is designed to help you visually comprehend the impact of the cloud infrastructure on your overall service availability.

You can learn more about Cloud incidents in our DoiT Console Help Center.

As part of a comprehensive FinOps practice, It's always important to consider shared costs when you distribute your cloud costs among various segments of your business. 

If these "shared" shared costs are not factored in during cost allocation, several issues may arise:

1. You might under-allocate or over-allocate costs to your cost centers, leading to inaccuracies.
2. The responsibility for these costs may not be taken up by anyone, possibly causing them to skyrocket uncontrollably.
3. Your cost predictions or budgets may be skewed due to the reliance on incomplete data.

To address these issues, we're thrilled to introduce "Cost Splitting." This new feature allows you to easily distribute shared and unallocated costs among different DoiT Console stakeholder groups!

Read more about how it works, or check out the additional resources below to explore it yourself.

Additional resources:

• [Interactive Demo] Split shared costs
• [Interactive Demo] Setting up Attribution Groups
• [Video] Attributions, Attribution Groups, and Splitting Costs
• [Live Webinar] Cloud Cost Allocation: How to get a clear picture of your cloud costs
• [Help Center] Distribute shared costs

We're thrilled to announce a new feature in the DoiT Console: Quick Links! This innovative addition is designed to make our products more accessible, provide contextual guidance, and simplify your initial interactions with our diverse product capabilities. Our goal? To help you harness the full power of the DoiTs portfolio of products.

Quick Links are customized to provide relevant content over time based on your role and usage of the platform. This ensures we're there to guide and assist you every step of the way. 

This new feature will improve your DoiT Console efficiency, driving you to insights and action quicker. We will continue to evolve and adapt these options - as always, if there is something you would like to see, please reach out and let us know!

We're taking our DoiT Platform and Zapier integration experience to the next level! You can now manage and create your Zaps directly from the DoiT Console. It's all designed to make your workflow integration even smoother and more efficient.

Here's how you can access this:

1. Open the DoiT Console
2. Click on "Settings"
3. Navigate to "Integrations"
4. Select "Zapier"

From this dedicated Zapier page, you have the power to manage your existing integrations and conjure new Zaps using the templates we've thoughtfully curated for you. It's a one-stop shop for all your integration needs!

No more hopping between different platforms — everything you need is at your fingertips. Enjoy the convenience, and let's continue creating remarkable things together!

We are thrilled to announce an important update to one of our most popular features - Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection.

Until recently, the DoiT Console displayed the anomalies, with a breakdown of the GCP or AWS services making the most contribution to the anomaly. While this has been helpful for general Root Cause Analysis, we understand that more granular insights can provide an even better understanding of cost anomalies and what resources are driving the costs up.

The new version shows the SKUs contributing to the cost anomaly and the Resources associated with those SKUs. This enhancement will enable you to identify the specific resources that have caused an anomaly, improving your ability to manage and control cloud costs more effectively.

For example, this is how we were displaying anomalies until today. You can clearly see an anomaly with Amazon CloudWatch USW2-DataProcessing-Bytes, but there is no information on what caused this big spike in CloudWatch usage.

However, with this release, we are also displaying the Resources contributing to the anomaly, in this case, AWS RDS PostgreSQL instance prod-db-us-west-2.

We believe this update will streamline your anomaly incident management process by offering a more holistic view of cost anomalies, thereby aiding you in making informed decisions swiftly. By understanding what has led to an unexpected increase in cost, you can now drill down to the root cause and take appropriate actions more promptly.

More information about Cost Anomalies is in our Help Center. 

We're thrilled to announce our new product integration of the DoiT Platform with Zapier! This powerful capability will provide seamless integration between our platform and the thousands of applications available on Zapier.

As part of our inaugural rollout, three integrations will be available from the outset: Cost Anomalies, Cloud Incidents and Invoices. We're unlocking countless new use cases by connecting these DoiT features with the applications you already use and love.

You'll now be able to set up workflows such as logging an issue in Jira every time a new cost anomaly is detected or even sending a message to Microsoft Teams (or Discord) when a new Cloud Incident is detected. This streamlined process saves you time and ensures you're always on top of things, keeping your apps running reliably.

Cost Anomalies and Cloud Incidents 101

If you're new to DoiT Platform, Cloud Incidents are events, including outages and other known issues, on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services that may affect the performance or availability of your services.

On the other hand, Cost Anomalies refer to spikes in your Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services costs across all your projects and services. Our cost anomaly detection employs machine learning algorithms to monitor billing data, analyze spending trends, and identify potential anomalies in your cloud environment. This gives you insights into which resources are causing unexpected expenses, enabling you to take necessary corrective actions.

More to Come

But that's not all! We're already working on additional integrations, including Budgets, Alerts, and Reports. This will allow you to launch Zaps when budgets reach their thresholds or when specific alert conditions are met. This is just another step we're taking to empower you to manage your resources more efficiently.

We believe this Zapier integration will empower your DoiT Platform use. This is just the beginning, and we're excited about the future. The possibilities are endless with the integration of the DoiT Platform and Zapier! 

Get Started

To get started, navigate to https://zapier.com/apps/doit/integrations to get a list of templates or select "DoiT" in your Zap's trigger

If you deal with large amounts of data when exploring reports, you can improve the readability of your reports using the improved Top/Bottom filter.

This filter allows you to only show only the Top or Bottom results for each grouping, based on a metric of your selection. It also gives you the ability to aggregate all the remaining items in 1 line, to aggregate them per each grouping level, or to simply hide it.

For example, if you wanted to explore Cost for the Top 5 Services and Top 3 accounts, but still show the rest aggregated per grouping, you would set the filter up like follows:

This will show the following output format:

If you choose to "aggregate all together" instead, you will see the following result:

This improvement to the Top/Bottom filter will allow you to focus on the biggest cost sources without losing sight of the total spend. We look forward to your feedback on this improvement to the Top/Botton filter!