Insights

Insights sits under Optimization in the product's sidebar. It brings together the fastest-growing services, the largest cost changes by region, and the cost anomalies nobody has acknowledged yet.

Before you start

• Connect at least one source, so the workspace has cost data. See Manage connections.
• Any team role can view Insights. Acknowledging an anomaly needs the team role Owner or Editor with edit access to the workspace.

Read the trend cards

1. Open Insights.
2. Set the date range at the top of the page. The two trend cards compare it with the period before it.
3. Fastest Growing Services lists the services whose cost rose most against the previous period, with both amounts and the change in percent.
4. Significant Cost Changes lists the regions whose cost changed most, and a Total Period Change row when the total moved.
5. Use View in Cost Explorer to continue in a Cost Report.

When nothing grew or changed, the cards say "No significant growth detected" and "No significant changes detected".

Review and acknowledge anomalies

1. Open Insights. Cost Anomalies lists the anomalies that are not acknowledged yet.
2. Each anomaly names the service, a severity from low to critical, the expected and the actual cost, and how far the actual cost deviated.
3. When you have looked into one, select Acknowledge. It leaves the list, and Costfluent records who acknowledged it and when.

How it behaves

• Anomaly detection runs every four hours. It compares each service's daily cost per connection and workspace with the previous thirty days, and flags a spike or a drop when the day is far enough from that history.
• A day with no cost data yet is skipped rather than treated as zero, so a provider that delivers late shows its anomalies later.
• Acknowledging does not change any cost figure. It only marks the anomaly as reviewed.
• Anomalies are also available through the Public API, which can acknowledge them with a token that holds the matching capability.
• The page also carries the Tag Coverage card (Tags and tag coverage) and the Alerts card, where cost alerts are paused, resumed and deleted (Alerts).

Related

• Explore cost data
• Alerts
• Savings