Release Notes: Cost Intelligence

COI-0022 February 5, 2025: You can select the region and more than one service in the inventory report. Learn more.

January 2025

COI-0021 January 19, 2025: The new Smart Analyzer lets you use Spot's ChatGPT to gain valuable insights into your chart data. You can use free text and predefined queries. Learn more.
COI-0020 January 8, 2025: You can now use out-of-the-box datasets for creating dashboards and charts once certain account types are configured in Cost Intelligence.

You can also find information about Managed Dashboards that are prebuilt dashboards created by Cost Intelligence. When data is available, they enable a quick start in the dashboards, focusing on specific use cases. Learn more.
COI-0019 January 5, 2025: Dashboard Forecasting includes confidence upper and lower scores that provide context and indicate the level of confidence in forecasted values. It also supports multiseries line and box charts based on time, enabling more accurate chart predictions. Learn more.

December 2024

COI-0018 December 29, 2024: Cost Intelligence provides additional cost-related data to key best practice checks. You can see summary and aggregated views at both the check level and assessment level. Learn more.

November 2024

COI-0017 November 18, 2024: Cost Intelligence includes recommendations that identify resources that can be managed and optimized by Spot Ocean. You can click the button to onboard these resources to Ocean. Learn more.
COI-0016 November 5, 2024: You can define asset groups, which allow you to view and manage data with a set of filters that apply to different pages. Learn more.

October 2024

COI-0015 October 29, 2024: You can integrate Databricks, MongoDB Atlas, and OpenAI with Cost Intelligence to collect billable and usage metrics for your organization. Learn more.
COI-0014 October 17, 2024: You can allow Ocean to be imported into Cost Intelligence dashboards that is joined with Billing Engine data. Learn more.
COI-0013 October 16, 2024: You can export the inventory report and the best practice checks data to a CSV file.
COI-0012 October 15, 2024: AWS and Azure give recommendations for qualifying accounts, called AWS Trusted Advisor and Azure Advisor. Cost Intelligence automatically pulls in that information to the Best Practice Checks page. You can view the advisor content along with the Cost Intelligence content. This gives you an overall view of how to streamline your cloud resources. Learn more.
COI-0011 October 8, 2024: You can integrate Snowflake with Cost Intelligence to collect billable and usage metrics for your organization. Learn more.

September 2024

COI-0010 September 29, 2024: You can use the Workflow Builder to create highly configurable flows within Cost Intelligence Dashboards to generate data-driven alerts and export them in various formats such as PDF and Excel. Learn more.
COI-0009 September 16, 2024: You can now integrate Splunk with Cost Intelligence to collect billable and usage metrics for your organization. Learn more.

August 2024

COI-0008 August 22, 2024: The best practice checks page includes cards for quick filtering of failures by importance or category. Once you’ve identified failures, you can see the remediation steps in Cost Intelligence. Learn more.
COI-0007 August 14, 2024: You can integrate Datadog and New Relic with Cost Intelligence to collect billable and usage metrics for your organization. Learn more.

May 2024

COI-0006 May 7, 2024: You can add multiple subscriptions to Cost Intelligence simultaneously using the Azure CLI onboarding tool. Learn more.
COI-0005 May 5, 2024: You can enhance user and account management capabilities in the Cost Intelligence console. You can easily manage access and configurations for Spot accounts, enabling streamlined administration and improved visibility into cloud accounts. Learn more.
COI-0004 May 1, 2024: You can connect an existing Spot account to Cost Intelligence for an Azure subscription. Learn more.

April 2024

COI-0003 April 24, 2024: You can perform data joins within Cost Intelligence dashboards, which lets you create a new dataset from multiple sources. The joins can be made with datasets that have at least one column in common. Learn more.
COI-0002 April 24, 2024: You can generate derived values within the Cost Intelligence dashboards. Derived values let you perform calculations and create new columns based on existing data. Learn more.
COI-0001 April 22, 2024: You can view how fees are calculated for usage of Billing Engine and Cost Intelligence. Learn more.