With Microsoft Ignite around the corner, now’s the time to sharpen your Azure FinOps game. This month’s updates bring clarity where it counts - from surfacing Azure Advisor recommendations directly in CostGuard to breaking down your AI spend with a ready-to-use Azure dashboard. You’ll also find new OpenAI anomaly alerts, deeper Kubernetes cost visibility, and smarter tagging automation - designed to help your team move faster with confidence.
Product Updates
Azure Advisor Recommendations Available Now in CostGuard!
CostGuard now shows your Azure cost optimization recommendations alongside AWS and GCP - so you can review, prioritize, and act without switching platforms.
Auto-detect cost spikes in your OpenAI usage by model, project, API key, and token type. We’ll alert you when spend exceeds thresholds so you can intervene early.
You can now see Project and User display names across your OpenAI spend. This makes it easier to attribute costs to the right teams, users, or workloads - without digging through raw IDs.
Deeper visibility into your Azure Kubernetes clusters
Finout now supports detailed monitoring for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments, giving you full visibility into your clusters’ resource utilization. Break down node costs by CPU, memory, and network usage at the pod level to understand what’s driving your spend and uncover optimization opportunities.
Why it matters: See what drives your AKS costs and find optimization opportunities.
Connect Coralogix’s Metrics API to Finout to aggregate Prometheus data across clusters. Enables accurate Kubernetes cost allocation from your existing observability setup.
Easily track, analyze, and showcase AI-related costs across your Azure services - so you can understand usage trends, spot cost drivers, and optimize your AI investments with confidence.
Apply Cost Allocation Rules Within a Specific TimeFrame via the VTag API
You can now set start/end dates when creating rules via the VTag API - just like in the UI. Useful for tracking temporary campaigns, tests, or allocations.
