What’s New

Improvements

• K8s Cost & Usage Explorer : each metric in usage graphs now represents sum instead of average, for better accuracy.
• Cost & Usage Explorer/ Assets : GCP: Aligned filter and columns to be per GCP terminology.
• MSP: K8S GCP costs are now visible for reseller customers.Login: improved performance of user login to reduce delay.

Bugs

• Recommendations: For EC2 Idle and EC2 Right sizing recommendations, for instances that are initiated only for a short time, the graph was confusing as it indicated zero usage before instance was initiated. This was fixed.
• Recommendation Reports: ‘Created’ column was renamed to be ‘updated’ to reflect true status.
• Recommendations: Fixed an issue where filter by tags was not working.
• Reports: Fixed an issue which prevented some reports to be sent.
• Reports: when sending a wide report over email, its size is now adjusted to fit screen.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Azure: Fixed an issue where group by Sub Meter Category was not retrieving results.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Tooltip on graph was displaying wrong dates on a weekly range for the week between last year and 2023.
• Onboarding: It is now possible to register with an email with multiple dots in the email address.
• Onboarding: Fixed an issue for user roles while onboarding to reduce dependency on support.

🎁 New Features

• We are happy to announce a new channel – Salesforce Service Tickets. You can now easily turn Anodot alerts into Salesforce service tickets. Documentation can be found here.
• We have added the ability to authenticate webhooks using Okta.

🗃 Improvements

• We’ve added another metric to our service_usage reporting – data_points. This means you can now monitor the entire Anodot funnel – Data Points –> Metrics –> Anomalies –> Real incidents. How cool is that?
• We’ve added three additional regions to the snowflake collector – EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm) and UK South (London)
• We’ve made an improvement to how static lines are displayed in dashboards. From now on – the lines will be displayed regardless of the actual metric values.
• We now enable making the user field mandatory when providing feedback (even from outside Anodot). This is relevant for customers who do not want to handle anonymous feedback at all.
• For those of you who are using alert variables in their actions, we’ve improved it such that if you have multiple alerts you can now use the ‘ungroup’ field in the channel to get single value notifications.

🛠 Bug Fixes

• We fixed an error in the Grafana plugin which didn’t show alerts for customers using the new detection engine.
• We fixed an error in the S3 Parquet files collector which prevented the creation of new streams. We also fixed a broken documentation link in the collector.
• We fixed an issue with the filtering of dashboards.
• We fixed an issue which caused negative values to show w/o the minus sign in the alert console tooltip
• We fixed the ‘Alert close’ notification in the triage timeline. Also – the ‘export timeline’ function can now be accessed from the ‘three dot menu’ in the triage. Have you tried exporting your timeline lately?
• We made some minor UX modifications to the triage main screen, esp. for static / no-data alerts.

New Features

• MSP: It is now possible to set alerts for credits on utilization, completion and expiration. We also improved the screen for the credits to facilitate handling.

Enhancements

• K8s Cost & Usage Explorer and Assets for GCP: Allow users issue queries that combine columns of node & namespace.
• Onboarding (AWS): when linked account is not able to connect a detailed error is given to the user to explain the failure reason.
• Onboarding (AWS): Aligned text for better clarity on Root account ID to be connected.
• Cost & Usage (Azure): API call for Azure portal was aligned to new API calls to get accurate information.
• Forecast: Main dashboard forecast was aligned to exclude charge types occurring one time fee.
• MSP: Billing rules: new description field was introduced to facilitate handling.
• MSP: Credits can’t be added for the previous month after the 20th of the current month, corresponding notifications and validation were added.

Bug Fixes

• Cost & Usage Explorer: Usage storage units for resources (i.e S3) are now displayed in GB instead of bytes.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: GCP Filters were showing while viewing AWS account data, This is now fixed.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Other checkbox was wrongly unchecked when refining query. This is now fixed.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Search items within Legend was not finding unchecked items. This is now fixed.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: when filtering on tags with value containing apostrophe data was not displayed. This is now fixed.

New Features

• New Status Page is now available to help you monitor Anodot Cost system health and incidents at : https://coststatus.anodot.com/ Feel free to subscribe to this page so you get notified immediately on any issue we are experiencing. 
• We have a new and improved documentation site: https://cloudcost.anodot.com/ . As some of the information is only available to registered customers, please make sure to login or request a user from support to see the full content.
• Recommendations: Partial ElastiCache RI recommendation now supports ‘Heavy Utilization’ purchase option.

Enhancements

• Documentation for the Business Mapping API is now available at: https://docs.anodot.com/#business-mapping
• K8s Assets: report now presents the selected cost type along with their costs as dedicated columns in the reports.
• Monitoring : Alerts: could now be defined with a more granular level using operators on usage type.

Bug Fixes

• Dashboard: Top 5 Services Cost – Fixed an issue with date range when drill down to graph data.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Fixed issues with Legend search field.
• Cost & Usage explorer: Usage was inaccurate for RDS service. This was fixed.
• K8s Cost & Usage: Usage metrics were updated to calculate more accurate values for Data Transfer and Network.
• Monitoring, Idle Instances: Fixed an issue where Last Idle Date was presenting inaccurate info (although the graph was correct).
• User Management: Fixed an issue for logout of users using SSO.
• Reports: Fixed an issue where reports were cropped at the bottom.
• Recommendations: We fixed an issue which prevented tag filtering in Azure and GCP.
• Recommendations: GCP commitment Use Discount, fixed an issue where commitment type was not specified.
• MSP: Fixed an issue which caused some MSPs to see the same customer twice in the account manager.
• MSP: Fixed an issue which prevented edit of billing rules.

New Features

• K8s Cost and Usage Explorer: Dynamic URL is now available also for Kubernetes usage.

Enhancements

• Cost Allocation: Categories were renamed to Filter group to better reflect their meaning.
• Cost & usage Explorer (including K8s): When download table data to CSV: Linked Account ID and name are now separated to 2 different columns.
• Cost & Usage explorer: (AWS) It is now possible to filter on RI Volume Discount.
• Cost & Usage explorer: when showing table view, the totals now represent the value for all pages.
• K8s Asset Report: GCP “Network” metrics are now available.
• K8s Assets Report: Now presents the selected cost type along with their costs as a dedicated columns in the reports.
• K8s: We’ve added pod cost calculation without waste.
• Commitment: RI utilization page is now visible only to Azure EA customers as needed.

Bug Fixes

• Cost & Usage Explorer: usability issues on the legend.
• Cost & Usage explorer: Usage was incorrect for RDS service.
• Cost & Usage Explorer K8s: Date field was missing when looking into cost of specific pod. This was fixed.
• K8s GCP: removed the group by option on deployment.
• K8s GCP: Fixed an issue of not showing data for filtering on usage in pod hours.
• Recommendations: Azure VM RI calculation was adjusted to reflect pricing differences for 1 Yeas vs. 3 years plans.
• Reports: We fixed an issue with testing scheduled reporting.
• Assets (GCP): We fixed an issue which prevented resource name to show in assets and Cost & Usage views.
• Default Dashboard (AWS): Month to date top 5 services, do no longer include AWS marketplace fee.
• Reports (Azure): We’ve updated the name of the meter in Azure reports following a change which Azure did.
• Reports: We fixed an issue where some of the reports were not sent.
• API: Cost & Usage group by customer was not refreshed to show correct results when customer name changed.
• MSP: Cost & usage explore: Linked account details were wrongly presented for reseller customers.
• MSP: amortized cost was wrongly displayed for reseller non-EDP customers .
• MSP: The billing history ‘SP margin’ details now present only linked accounts which are not the same as the SP owner.

Enhancements

• We made improvements to the way we calculate K8S costs on GCP.
• Recommendations: Azure VM RI – We fixed a calculation issue of the 3 years plan to offer a more accurate recommendation.
• We have enhanced the Invoice Generating & Processing for Azure & GCP.
• MSP: New “Line types” filtering field was added to the Azure Billing rule
• MSP: Billing Rules now includes the option to exclude Market place fees.

Bug Fixes

• Cost & Usage Explorer K8s: CPU usage (requirements) for low values were not showing correctly. This is now fixed.
• Cost & Usage Explorer K8s/ GCP: Fixed an issue of not showing data for filtering on usage in pod hours.
• Dashboard: Custom Dashboard: some legend items were unchecked by default, this is now fixed and all legend items will be auto-checked.
• Dashboard: Top 5 Services Cost – Fixed an issue with date range when drill down to graph data.
• Dashboard Report: We fixed an issue which caused reports to be sent with a filter even if a filter was not defined.
• Recommendations for GCP: Commitment Use Discount, fixed an issue where commitment type was not specified.
• Recommendations: We fixed an issue which prevented tag filtering in Azure and GCP.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: We’ve updated the name of the meter in Azure reports following a change which Azure did.
• MSP: We fixed an issue which caused for some MSPs to see the same customer twice in the account manager.
• MSP: Bundle discount are now treated correctly in the re-billing process- credits are removed after all other discounts.
• MSP: The re-billing process is now fetching EC2 Savings Plans discounts.

🎁 New Features

• Know those pesky “General Error” notifications which you sometime get? No more. All notifications (good or bad) will now be concentrated into a notifications panel as part of the user menu

🗃 Improvements

• Know how you can ungroup alerts by metric? This means that if we detect an incident on three different metrics – instead of one alert you will get three of them. Well, we’ve just expanded this capability to PagerDuty and email channels.
• A new version for our Grafana Plugin (4.0.4) – Which enables you to filter the alerts panel based on feedback.
• On our path to build the value reports – we keep adding building blocks which you can use. This month – Two new service_usage metrics joining the family – Actions and Licensed Metrics

🛠 Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue which caused the “No Data Notifications” to be sent to late to admins.
• We fixed an issue which caused composites not to be calculated sometimes when RBAC is being used.
• We fixed minor UX issue in the Triage screen.
• We fixed an issue with the Google GA4 collector which caused it to handle the ‘other’ row when no filter is present.
• We fixed an issue with the Kafka pipeline which caused it stop working because of specific errors.

New Features

Dashboard Templates: Dashboards can now be saved as a template and shared between users. Once opened, the template reflects the data corresponding to the customer/cost center/organization.

Enhancements

• Cost & Usage Explorer: We’ve added average Goal Summary display next to Total cost as a new square.
• Recommendations: Upon exclusion of a recommendation, reason field is now mandated for better understanding and tracking.
• Recommendations | GCP:  GCP CUD Recommendation is now recommending for 1 Year plan as the default plan and 3 Year Plan as an additional option that can be chosen.
• Services | S3: We have enhanced S3 storage types to support all options above the the standard ones, Including Glacier Instant Retrieval in specific.

Bug Fixes

• Cost & Usage Explorer K8s: CPU usage (requirements) values were not showing correctly, This is now fixed.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Incorrect data was shown when group by categories when each of them had k8s label filters.
• Dashboard: Top 5 Services Cost – Fixed an issue with date range when drill down to graph data,
• Dashboards: Custom Dashboards were displaying a wrong date pattern, this is now fixed.
• Kubernetes: Storage data was showing with the wrong size. This was fixed.
• Budget Alert: We fixed an issue where the alert on budget was kept being sent.
• Recommendations: Sending a large report file was failing due to size. This is now fixed.
• MSP Billing Report: RI margin was showing wrong numbers. This was fixed.

New Features
Cost & Usage Goals: It is now possible to set a goal on any of your queries displayed in Cost & Usage Explorer. This way you may easily see the actual vs. planned spend for usage and costs. To learn more about setting Goals check : here

Enhancements

• Cost & Usage Explorer: Events were enhanced to include more details and an impact estimation in dollars.
• Cost & Usage: We continue to improve usability for the Rate feature to allow measuring the ratio between cost and usage. Allowing for example to measure how much does a compute hour costs.
• Recommendations: GCP CUD is now recommending for 1 Year plan as the default plan and 3 Year Plan as an additional option that can be chosen.
• Recommendations: EBS unattached: New ‘Volume name’ field was added.
• Reports: Account ID and name are now split to two separate columns for report downloading of : Recommendations, Assets and Alerts to allow easy filtering and sorting.
• K8s Cost & Usage Explorer: We removed the ‘zoom’ feature from the K8S charts as it was not being used.

Bug Fixes

• Cost & Usage Explorer: Default query now excludes charge type being Tax (instead of service equals Tax).
• Cost & Usage Explorer and K8s explorer : The “Other” checkbox within the legend is now being selected by default to show all data.
• Region Activity Map: was fixed and include the Milan region as well.
• Account settings for Anomaly Detection is now being saved properly.
• Account (AWS): Added required KMS permissions to the account policies to be able to get KMS recommendations.
• Dashboards – fixed an issue for applying filters on using categories.
• MSP: Invoicing did not include newly created billing rule. This is now fixed.
• MSP: We fixed an issue where a project appears in the ‘manage customer’ but not in the project tab

🎁 New Features

• Matching Properties! We have added support to filter events by matching properties for both the influencing events and the display events.
• We’ve added a new service_usage metric – Actions. This will report on the number of alert actions defined in the account on a daily basis.

🗃 Improvements

• The databricks agent now supports a backfill policy.
• We’ve added the option to configure multiple level in the Region entity in the Topology Agent.
• Improved the SNMP agent so that it replaces illegal characters in dimension values.

🛠 Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue in the new ‘calculated metrics’ screen which impacted the sorting.
• Fixed an issue in the SNMP agent so that you can now use measurement_names
• Various UX fixes in the new Event streaming feature

🎁 New Features

• The Post Metrics API now supports oAuth 2.0. This means you can continue sending metrics only with the data token (v1) or send them with a bearer token (v2).
• We added the capability to send an event stream from an MSSQL database via an Agent. In fact – you can use the agent to send event streams from all SQL based sources. Documentation can be found here – https://github.com/anodot/daria/wiki/Sending-events-to-Anodot
• We’ve added support for user/password authentication for the influx2 agent.

🗃 Improvements

• Improving the select All capability of the dropdown lists in the dashboard, allowing easier filtering of the data
• Fixed the tooltip in the timeshift function.
• the Service_usage metric for feedbacks now reports feedbacks given also for static and no data alerts. Did you know you can give feedback also for those alerts? Try it.

🛠 Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue which caused a ‘general error’ when opening the impact tab in the stream summary modal.
• We fixed an issue which affected the sorting of the new ‘Calculated Metrics’ screen

 Improvements

• Our SNMP Agent now supports data filtering.
• We’ve improved the UpdateAlert API to also work if the alert has a composite in it.
• The coralogix collector now supports DVP (filling empty data points) of up to 180 days back.
• Improving the message to the user when no data is found or when too much data is requested.
• Improving the distinction between view and edit modes of the dashboards
• Improving the Select All behavior of partial lists shown to the user in dashboards. Only the filtered list is selected and not the entire list.
• Service Usage for feedbacks now counts also feedbacks for Static and No Data alerts.

 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug to allow searching in the assignee list in the alert console
• Fixed a bug in the metric usage report, escaping of stream name was corrected
• We fixed an issue which prevented users from deleting channels. Delete at will!

New Features

Cost & Usage: Rate feature !
In addition to showing data based on cost or usage, It is now  possible to measure the units for it ( the ratio between cost and usage).
Allowing to measure, for example, how much a compute hour costs.

Enhancements

• Recommendations: Preferences were added for defining the age of old KMS keys for the benefit of customers with rotation rate of less than 1 year.
• Cost & Usage: New enhanced buttons are now available.
• MSP: Enhanced flow for AWS cloud onboarding, allowing setting the billing profile easier.
• MSP: white labeling for invoices is now available.

Bug Fixes

• Cost & Usage: Opening a panel out of a saved dashboard in a new tab, was losing the query context.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Fixed a problem where trend line was breaking the chart view.
• Cost & Usage GET API: Fixed an issue where group by multi cloud was not showing correct results.
• K8s Assets: Column for Label Subscription type was showing wrong value. This was fixed.
• Budget: Fixed an issue for updating budget details.
• Dashboard: Top 5 Services Cost – Fixed an issue with date range when drill down to graph data.
• Recommendations: Resource name was missing from EC2 right sizing recommendations.
• Recommendations: fixed an issue with the report were recommendation status was incorrect.

Other

New Features

• Recommendations: It is now possible to review excluded recommendations for better visibility and understanding.
• White Labeling: It is now possible to use custom logo across all screens based on user company details.

Improvements

• Cost & Usage: Improve usability for filtering on an option with additional multiple options.
• Commitment: Azure RI utilization is now available for API use.
• Azure EA portal renewal / support for updated API call for re-generating EA API Access key.

Bug Fixes

• Recommendations: RDS Generation Upgrade did not include tag information. This is now fixed.
• Services: EC2 Quantity & Cost summary by type, Quantity total was shown with the wrong measure unit. This is now fixed.
• Azure services Virtual machines – Wrong Unit data for VMs. This was fixed.
• Azure: Services: Virtual Machines: RI Coverage – fixed an issue where end date was not updated.
• Cost Center: Name mismatch between display name in Cost & Usage (that was outdated) vs. the name in the Cost center list.
• Dashboard: Fixed a visibility issue for long panel names.
• Multi-cloud Dashboard: Fixed an issue where Azure panel was not shown in a multi-cloud dashboard.
• Recommendations: API call for RDS Generation Upgrade was using wrong model name as parameter. This is now fixed. Model name is now aligned with its name in AWS console (i.e: db.r6g.12xlarge)
• MSP: when switching to Multi-cloud view, the pricing mode was not available. This is now fixed.

 New Features

• We are happy to release the beta version of Event Streaming. You can finally stream events to Anodot using regular streams and even file uploads. Please let us know if you would like us to open the beta for you.
• Dynamic Routing is now supported for all channel types. Previously – you could only use dynamic routing for mail. Documentation can be found here.
• Finally – a new composite management screen. Check it out and let us know what you think.

 Improvements

• We’ve updated the feedback ‘details’ page for the following channels – Mattermost, Telegram, ServiceNow, MS Teams, Jira, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Slack (Legacy).
• Adding the ability to configure the Measure Units as part of pipelines configuration.
• Improving the usability of the delete stream action by providing the stream name in the confirmation modal
• We’ve improved the documentation for our agents.
• We improved the topology agent to ensure alignment against the API.
• We’ve added an API which enables you to get the number of dashboards defined in your account. This is useful for those of you building adoption reports of Anodot.

Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue in duplicating a google GA4 account.
• We fixed an issue in the system notifications email which showed a missing ‘inactivity days’ value.
• When using actions that call dashboards – using filters based on dimension values can cause the dashboard to get stuck if the dimension value is not filled by the trigger.
• We fixed an issue in the agent in checking token expiration.
• We fixed an issue with the segment collector which caused it to get ‘stuck’ in case of a pagination error.
• We fixed an issue which prevented ‘read-only’ users from seeing the timeline of an incident in the triage.
• We fixed an issue which prevented some users from using the SNS channel

🎁 New Features

• Impala agent is available, documentation is available in Anodot Github
• We’ve added new Forecast API Calls. Documentation can be found here.

🗃 Improvements

• Anodot Agent is now compatible with Podman. Podman setup instructions can be found in our agent documentation: https://github.com/anodot/daria/wiki/Podman-setup
• Adding a default period for data gaps in agent pipeline configurations is now supported.
• Updates to the ServiceNow alert templates
• Adding support for MSSQL in raw pipelines
• Support working with self-signed ssl certificates in the Anodot agent
• Improve the support for complex queries in the influx agent
• Adding the ability to configure a source type to work on a specific streamsets instance.

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with reset password link failure
• Fixed an issue where composite validation was not stored or cleared.
• We fixed a bug which caused the text in one of the buttons in the File upload screen to disappear.

 New Features

• We have a new agent enabling you to get data from Apache Impala.
• We are happy to introduce our new ServiceNow channel!
• We’ve added a new API which enables you to create a user in Anodot via the API. Very useful if you want to automate the provisioning of users.
• We’ve also added an API enabling you to create groups.

Improvements

• We have improved the ‘influencing events’ feature so that you can now define multiple influencing events conditions on the same alert.
• We made additional (minor) improvements to the UX of the Segment collector. The Segment collector now supports three collection intervals – 1 minutes, 5 minutes and hourly.
• We improved the channel search so that it is case insensitive (Like the stream search)
• We’ve improved tag support to agents.
• We’ve improved the wording on the stream status notification emails

 Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue which caused deleted metrics to linger on. Parting is such a sweet sorrow.
• We fixed an issue which prevented the business impact from being calculated correctly in some cases.
• We fixed a bug which caused the text in one of the buttons in the File upload screen to disappear.
• We fixed an issue when trying to add multiple alert variables to an expression.
• We fixed an issue with alert variables drop down to only use the dimensions used in the expressions.
• We fixed a nasty nasty bug with events which prevented them from showing up in the alert editor.
• We fixed a bug in the channels management page where the ‘slack app’ did not appear in the channel type filter.
• Fixed an issue which caused triggers to be sent to multiple slack channels (when using the ‘ungroup by metric’ feature)
• We filled some UX issues when using the ‘fill the gaps’ feature
• We fixed an issue which could have caused issues when using SSO in multi-account scenarios.

 As usual – All the release features, beta features, upcoming features and all your feature requests can be found in our Product Portal.

🎁 New Features

• A new alert agent added to Anodot, consuming data from PRTG network management.
• Showing missing data settings (DVP) in stream summary and pipeline summary

🗃 Improvements

• We added auto-casting of BigDecimal values to float to overcome the JDBC driver failures on BigDecimals.
• We have improved the SNMP agent configuration file structure.
• We added the capability to set the agent log level using environment variables
• The agent configuration now allows 1-minute filling of data gaps.
• We have improved the way pipeline configuration information is shown in the pipeline summary modal. We also enabled editing the impact from the modal.

🛠 Bug Fixes

• We have improved the dashboard time-frame control stability
• Fixed a bug to allow comma values within regex in the Kafka agent transformation module
• We fixed a bug in raw-pipelines.
• Fixed an issue in the filtering of the anomaly tile.
• We fixed an issue where public dashboards did require a login (Yes, there is a such a thing ‘too secure’)
• We have improved the handling of telegram group id changes
• We fixed the image URL in our test message in channels.
• Standard users could accidentally edit the stream or pipeline owner and access group. We fixed it so only admins can do it.
• We had an issue showing trigger content in some scenarios, it was fixed.
• Using the new event conditions, a single condition could not be removed from the alert, it can be removed now.
• We fixed a bug where long expressions were hard to enter, the search expression is much easier to use now. Notice the scroll bar on the right if the expression is long.

Enhancements

• Cost & Usage: Allow viewing a panel without adding it to dashboard.
• Adjust terminology of ‘linked account’ to be ‘subscriptions’ in Azure reports.

Bug Fixes

• Recommendations: Report was not sent automatically. This is now fixed.
• Recommendations: EBS Upgrade, fixed format issue.
• Recommendations: Azure, Cosmo DB Rightsizing improvements.
• Users: Allow users with Viewer role to set their own notifications.
• MSP: Credits grant could only be attributed to current month onwards.
• MSP: Re-billing, fixed an issue with billing processing.
• Budget Alert for Azure failed to be sent. This was fixed.
• Budget: Fixed an issue with budget editing.
• Cost & Usage Explorer: Fixed an issue for events display.
• Cost Center API – Fixed a problem with the PUT API for updating LinkedAccount IDs.
• Dashboard page in Cost & Usage menu was reviewed and aligned for better usability.
• Fixed several problems for reports and alerts sending.