We have revamped our Budgets! They now support:

1. Flexible Scoping: You can now define a budget scope with any dimension you like, for example a set of accounts or projects, one or multiple regions… you name it!
2. Budget vs. Actuals View: Quickly see how you are performing toward your budget for the period.

The new Budget vs. Actuals View is designed to give you a detailed and comprehensive look at performance following your budgets. This view allows you to easily compare your projected budget with the actual expenses incurred in the current period. This gives you a clear understanding of where your money is being spent and helps you identify any areas where you may be overspending. You can also view your spending forecast, allowing you to make informed decisions before it is too late.

You can access the new Budget Versus Actuals View by clicking on View budget in the 3-dot menu for your budget:

We continue to improve Budgets and will be releasing some more exciting news soon!

DoiT Forecasting is now enhanced with the support of "Forecast per grouping" in addition to the "Total forecast".

Planning for future cloud spend just got easier and more granular. The forecasting capability in Cloud Analytics is now able to project future spend using the ‘Group by’ dimension for current and future months. By forecasting each ‘Group by’ dimension’s value, you’ll be able to:

• Help engineering teams set realistic hiring/expansion plans based on their infrastructure spend trajectory
• Track cost ratios between environments (e.g., dev should be 1/10th of prod) to ensure healthy spend allocation
• Surface zombie projects or accounts that should be flat/declining but show growth

Below is the "Forecast per grouping” view once enabled 

To learn more about Forecasting per grouping please refer to the Forecasting documentation in the Help Center.

Today, we’re expanding our notification support to Microsoft Teams, joining the existing channels of email and Slack. This new integration enables customers to have the same advanced notification capabilities that have been available to Slack users.

What does this mean for you?

• Notifications Centralized: Receive critical notifications directly within your Microsoft Teams channels so the important information reaches the right people at the right time.
• Customization and Control: Just like with Slack, you can customize your notifications to fit your needs, reducing noise and focusing on what truly matters.
• Security and Privacy: Enables notification within private Teams and channels where sensitive information is safe and only available to select members.
• Easy Setup: Notifications within Microsoft Teams are quick and simple to set up. You can refer to our Help Center documentation for the process.

Ready to explore this new integration? Head over to our Help Center for all the details!

Following our releases of DataHub API and CSV Upload in the console, we now support programmatic ingestion of CSV files via the DataHub API.

You can send files of up to 30 MB through the API, and you can also compress and send in ZIP format to ingest even more data! To know more about sending CSV and ZIP files via API, refer to our Developer Docs.

Starting today, customers on a Navigator Enhanced plan can leverage DoiT's Platform APIs. Automate scripting of repetitive tasks, send invoices to your payment management system, and more with DoiT’s set of product APIs. These APIs also enable users to tap into Zapier to connect DoiT’s products to over 2,000 apps. 

API access continues to be available for customers on Navigator Premium and Enterprise tiers, as well as all DoiT Cloud Intelligence offerings. Visit the DoiT Developer Hub to get started.

Insights gives you valuable, actionable recommendations to get savings in your Cloud bill. We know, however, that acting on these recommendations can sometimes be daunting and require a deeper dive into the data.

That’s why we have now added an option within each Insight detail page to open a report that can give you more information about the recommendation. Of course you can freely dive deeper into the data from there, harnessing our powerful reports!

DoiT insights can now analyze your Snowflake billing data to identify savings opportunities and generate actionable recommendations. Our first Snowflake insight, named “Optimize Snowflake auto-suspend” provides recommendations for setting up warehouse auto suspension. It assesses the compute credits charged by Snowflake while your warehouse was idle and translates those numbers into potential savings if you follow DoiT's advice.

DoiT insights are located under the Governance tab on your Cloud Navigator toolbar. Here you can see an overview of each opportunity and an estimate of how much it will save you. Click on “Optimize Snowflake auto-suspend” for more information about how to take action, as well as a breakdown of how the potential savings are calculated. You can also create a Jira thread from the Insights screen to create and track an engineering task to handle the savings opportunity, or raise a support ticket to enlist a DoiT expert for more information.

All DoiT Insights, including Snowflake, continuously update as new savings opportunities arise. To learn more about DoiT Insights  and how they can help advance your FinOps and cost optimization practices, check out our Help documentation, or reach out to your DoiT account team.

DoiT forecasting is now more reliable, discoverable, configurable, and readable. 

Expanded machine learning capabilities, integrating a diverse range of new forecasting models in the backend, accommodate various types of time series data and different durations of historical spending. This new underlying data ensures superior forecasting results across all granularities, including monthly and daily forecasts.

Enhanced customer experience, forecasting is now prominently featured as a primary option in the left menu of DoiT Cloud Analytics. It also allows you to configure your preferred historical period for the model to learn from, as well as your desired forecasting period.

In one of the most commonly used views for reports and dashboard widgets, known as the "stacked column," forecasting is now illustrated through bar charts. This enhancement presents a forecasting range as well for both end-of-month and future projections, moving away from the previous method of displaying a single value at a specific point in time.

To learn more about Forecasting, check out our documentation in the Help Center.

We’ve streamlined how you subscribe to scheduled Analytics Reports in DoiT Cloud Navigator, replacing the old cron job-based system with the new scheduler used for dashboard subscriptions. This gives you a more intuitive and flexible experience to meet your FinOps needs.

What does this mean for you?

• Simple and Consistent Interface: Set up your report subscriptions using the same easy-to-use interface you already know from dashboard subscriptions.
• Notification Center Integration: Get your reports delivered straight to your email or Slack channels—public or private—powered by DoiT’s Notification Center.
• Easy Setup: No more complex cron jobs. With the new scheduler, you can set frequency, time, and time zone preferences with just a few clicks.
• More Control: Customize your Cloud Analytics report subscriptions to match your needs and get the right information at the right time.

How to start:

1. Log in to the DoiT console, select Analytics from the top navigation bar, then select Reports.
2. Select the report you want to subscribe to.
3. Set up your new subscription and save the changes.

For more information, check out our official documentation.

DoiT Anomaly Detection can now identify unplanned cost spikes at both the service and SKU levels simultaneously, without duplicating the alerts.

Previously, our anomaly detection and alert granularity was at the desired SKU-level to speed up your time-to-resolution when there was an issue. However, when a new SKU was introduced, it took several days to recognize any anomalies due to insufficient data for the machine learning model to analyze effectively. With the recent improvements, we can now detect unplanned cost spikes at the service level, even if they go unnoticed at the SKU level due to data limitations.

Anomalies detected at the service level are automatically flagged and alerted, mirroring the existing functionality for SKU-level cost anomalies. The only visual distinction is that the SKU field will display “ALL” on the list page, view page, and alert notifications.

Anomaly list screen

Anomaly view screen

To learn more about anomaly detection, check out our documentation in the Help Center.