Changelog
This page was last updated on April 24, 2024, with product updates for April 2024.
April 2024
Product Updates
- Visual navigation improvements: A Create New menu for quick actions is available on the top navigation bar.
- Datadog metrics: Business metrics have been updated with the option to directly ingest Datadog metrics.
- New virtual tagging feature: Virtual tagging is available to consistently tag costs across providers in Vantage. This feature can help to increase tagging coverage across your cloud infrastructure.
- New rightsizing recommendations: Kubernetes rightsizing recommendations are now available for rightsizing managed workloads in Kubernetes.
- New to active resources: Kubernetes managed workloads are synced as active resources in Vantage.
- Expanded forecasts: Forecasts have been expanded to include the upcoming month, the next three months, and six months ahead.
- Kubernetes agent version: The Clusters section of the Kubernetes agent settings screen is updated to show cluster name, version, and indicate if the cluster is out of date.
- Expanded chart options: Expanded chart options are available for Cost Reports, including expanded date bin selections for area and line charts and multi-line charts for grouped data.
Kubernetes Agent Updates
See March's update for the most recent Kubernetes agent release.
API Updates
- New API endpoints: The following endpoints have been added to the API:
- The
/resource_reports
endpoint automates the retrieval of existing resource reports. - The
/financial_commitment_reports
endpoint automates the retrieval of financial commitment reports. - The
/kubernetes_efficiency_reports
endpoint automates the retrieval of Kubernetes efficiency reports. - The
/anomaly_alerts
endpoint allows you to retrieve and update anomaly alerts. - The
/virtual_tag_configs
endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of virtual tags. - The
/anomaly_notifications
endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of anomaly notifications. - The
/budgets
endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of budgets. - The
/budgets_alerts
endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of budgets alerts.
- The
- New Terraform resources: The following resources have been added to the Terraform provider:
- New Terraform data sources: The following data sources have been added to the Vantage provider:
March 2024
Product Updates
- Saved filters on dashboards: You can now add a saved filter to a dashboard to view all Cost Reports on the dashboard with consistent filters applied.
- Updated Overview page: Associated budget and per unit costs are now displayed on Cost Report widgets on the Overview page.
- Updated UI look and feel: Visual improvements were made to the look and feel of the Overview and Budgets screens.
- Segments sync status: Cost allocation segments are now updated to show segment sync status. The look and feel of this page have been visually updated as well.
- Filterable cost recommendations: Recommendations are now filterable by provider on the Cost Recommendations screen.
- Pie chart option: You can now change the graph view on Cost Reports to a pie chart.
- Custom date filtering: The date picker on Cost Reports is updated to allow for custom period selections.
- Custom Databricks pricing: Custom discounts are now supported for Databricks SKU groups.
Kubernetes Agent Updates
The following versions were released this month.
Version 1.0.24 includes the following update:
- Supports monitoring ArgoCD resources in the cluster.
Version 1.0.23 includes the following updates:
app.kubernetes.io
labels are now allowed.- Agent scrape results are added to agent metadata.
- Prometheus metrics are added for tracking reporting successes/failures.
- Dependencies are updated to the latest stable versions.
- Additional controller metadata is included in agent reports for use in Active Resources.
API Updates
- New
tagged
option: On the/cost_reports
endpoint in the API, and thevantage_cost_report
resource in the Terraform provider,tagged
is a valid option for thegroupings
parameter. - New dashboard parameter: The
saved_filter_tokens
parameter is now available on the/dashboards
endpoint. It is also available on thevantage_dashboard
resource in the Terraform provider. - New Terraform resources: Additional Terraform resources are now available:
- The
vantage_segment
resource automates the creation of cost allocation segments in Vantage. Large segment hierarchies can easily be automated with filters applied as needed. - The
vantage_team
resource automates the creation of Vantage teams. Create a team and assign Vantage users, by email, to the team. - The
vantage_access_grant
resource automates access grants via role-based access controls in Vantage. Create grants to allow or deny teams access to resources, like folders or Cost Reports. - The
vantage_report_notification
resource automates the creation of Cost Report notifications. Create a notification for a specific Cost Report. Specify the notification’s frequency (e.g., daily) and change (e.g., in dollars).
- The
- Terraform data sources: Data sources are now available to retrieve information outside your Terraform configuration.
- Business metrics endpoint: The
/business_metric
endpoint is now available to create and update business metrics in the console.
February 2024
Product Updates
- Ability to group by multiple tags: You can now group by multiple tags in the console.
- EC2 rightsizing recommendations: New recommendations are added for rightsizing EC2 instances.
- Segment settings: You can now edit the default report settings on a top-level segment report.
- Updated UI look and feel: Visual updates were made to Financial Planning menus and screens.
- Financial Commitment Reports: Financial commitment reports are now available to help you understand how your organization is utilizing financial commitments.
- Bulk actions for folders and Cost Reports: You can now move and star folders and Cost Reports in bulk.
- Additional operators on resource reports: The
is greater than
andis less than
operators are both available for Metadata filters on resource reports. For example: where Metadata CloudWatch Log Groups Retention in Days is greater than 5.
API Updates
- New notifications endpoint: The
/report_notifications
endpoint is now available. This endpoint also now has support via the Terraform provider. - Multi-tag support: The
groupings
parameter of the/costs
endpoint has support for multiple tags. - Data sources in Terraform: Data sources for multiple Vantage resources are now available in the Terraform provider.
- Segment costs: You can now obtain costs for segment reports from the
/costs
endpoint. - Settings options on segments: The
report_settings
object is now available on the/segments
endpoint. - Settings on Cost Reports: The
settings
object is now available on the/cost_reports
endpoint.
January 2024
Product Updates
- PlanetScale support: PlanetScale is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
- Updated UI look and feel: The Settings UI and main navigation bar are visually updated for better navigability.
- Charge Type filter and group: Charge Type is available as a new filter and grouping category on Cost Reports.
- Created by column: The Created by column is added to Business Metrics, Savings Models, as well as Cost Reporting screens, like Dashboards.
- Created On column sort: The Created On column, available on Cost Reporting screens, correctly sorts by date.
- Created by me filter: The Created by me filter screen is available in Cost Reporting. New reports you create will now be visible within this view.
- Tag grouping for advanced exports: The advanced export on Cost Reports now has a Tag grouping option.
- "Other" grouping expanded: The Other grouping is expanded on Cost Reports so you can display additional costs, beyond what's already displayed, in the table and graph.
- Cost Reports line and area charts: When grouping by specific criteria, you can now adjust the Cost Report graph to be displayed as an area chart or line chart, with a line for each group.
- Searchable Business Metrics Report dropdown: The Report dropdown menu on the Business Metrics screen is now searchable.
API Updates
- Priority added to
PUT
request for segments: Thepriority
parameter is available on the/segments/{segment_token}
endpoint. - New groupings parameter: The
groupings
parameter is available on the/costs
endpoint. - Access grant endpoint update: Update/destroy endpoints for
/access_grant
now use the access grant token to identify an access grant.
December 2023
Product Updates
- Expanded recommendations: Cost recommendations have been expanded for Azure.
- Kubernetes efficiency reports: Kubernetes efficiency reports allow teams to quickly identify which Kubernetes pods are running inefficiently. These reports are a customized view of Kubernetes idle and total costs based on Cluster, Namespace, and Label.
- Official Kubernetes integration: The Vantage Kubernetes agent provides a single in-cluster deployment that handles both metrics collection and upload to Vantage—without any intermediary requirements.
API Updates
- Cost allocations segment API: Script both the creation and modification of cost allocation segments via new API endpoints.
November 2023
Product Updates
- Automatic team assignment for SSO: Automatically assign users to teams in Vantage based on your organization's existing SSO groups.
- Confluent support: Confluent is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
- Team-based access controls: Enterprise customers can now use role-based access control to create fine-grained permissions for teams across their organizations.
October 2023
Product Updates
- Resource report exports: You can now download lists of resources for further exploration via resource reports.
September 2023
Product Updates
- Annotations for reports: You can now add annotations to Cost Reports for infrastructure changes or events.
- Oracle support: Oracle is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
- Dashboards: You can now create dashboards with custom collections of Cost Reports and apply date range and period filters to all reports present on them.
API Updates
- Write API: The new write API automates the management of Cost Reports, saved filters, and dashboards.
- New Terraform resources: New Terraform resources are available for Cost Reports, folders, saved filters, and dashboards.
August 2023
Product Updates
- Alert thresholds for anomaly detection: Set custom alert thresholds on cost anomaly alerts, so alerts are tailored to your tolerance for cost spikes.
- Comparative cost reporting: Cost Reports now have a By Date toggle to display costs by day, week, or month in the costs table.
- Budget alerts: You can now create budget alerts to receive automated notifications when costs exceed user-defined alert thresholds.
July 2023
Product Updates
- Datadog support: Datadog is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
- Multi-dimensional cost reporting: You can now group Cost Reports by multiple dimensions.
June 2023
Product Updates
- GCP resource-level costs: Resource-level costs are available for GCP Cost Reports.
- Resource reports: You can create resource reports to view and access resources generated per provider.
May 2023
Product Updates
- Kubernetes cost efficiency metrics: Manage the efficiency of your Kubernetes clusters in addition to enterprise reporting, visibility, and cost allocation.
April 2023
Product Updates
- Self-service SAML: Users can now configure SAML-based SSO for their account without contacting Vantage support.
- Saved filters: Saved filters are available to save and reuse filter logic across multiple Cost Reports.
- Azure cost recommendations: Azure cost recommendations are now supported.
March 2023
Product Updates
- Cost Report exports: You can now export Cost Reports via custom exports.
- Per-unit cost support: With per-unit costs, you can track costs per customer, endpoint, transaction, etc.
API Updates
- Terraform provider: Terraform provider is now available to integrate AWS accounts with Vantage.
February 2023
Product Updates
- New Relic support: New Relic is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
- Expanded resource filtering: You can now filter by resource in Cost Reports.
- MongoDB Atlas support: MongoDB Atlas is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
January 2023
Product Updates
- Updates to Cost Reports: You can now save custom date ranges, date bins, and groupings to share with teammates in Cost Reports.
- Autopilot recommendations expanded: Autopilot is expanded to recommend Reserved Instance purchases on RDS, ElastiCache, Redshift, and OpenSearch.
- Cost allocation segments: Segments are now enabled for teams to allocate costs to business units.