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!

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!

We are thrilled to announce two new Zapier triggers that enhance the integration with your DoiT Console, further simplifying your cloud billing management process. These updates focus on streamlining your alert response system and budget monitoring practices, ensuring you never face unexpected surprises in your cloud billing.

The first trigger, "New Alert Notification," utilizes the versatile Alerts feature of the DoiT Console to monitor various dimensions in your cloud infrastructure. This, for example, allows for automatically creating Jira tickets (or even notifying your own webhooks) when an alert is detected, making it easier to assign tasks to your team for further investigation without missing a beat.

The second, "Budget Threshold Surpassed," is a FinOps tool that helps keep track of your cloud spend against planned budgets. A popular use-case of this is the automated logging of budget consumption data directly into Google Spreadsheets or Microsoft Excel, assisting you in maintaining a documented and efficient tracking system.

To get started with these new features, visit the Zapier integration section on your DoiT Console and customize these new triggers to fit your workflow with zero code.

We understand that sometimes you may need to conduct a report (query) on your Google Cloud or AWS billing records in response to a specific trigger. For instance, you might want to analyze your expenses for a particular cloud service (such as "AWS Lambda") when you find out a new team or cost center in your organization has begun using it. This is why we've recently introduced a "Query Cloud Analytics" action in Zapier! This newly implemented feature allows you to execute an instant analysis of your cloud billing records without the need for coding. It's readily available to all our users and customers.

One of the key benefits of this new action is the elimination of the need for pre-built reports. It allows you to dynamically specify parameters for the data you need, including the group-by, timeframe, filters, and so on. Then, whenever your action is triggered, it will deliver up-to-date data in accordance with your specifications!

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!