Over the course of 2024, the VMware Tanzu CloudHealth team has been teasing a new look and feel for Tanzu CloudHealth. In June, at FinOps X in San Diego, the team debuted the Private Beta of our new CloudHealth experience while work continued.
Last week, during FinOps X Barcelona, we announced the Open Beta of the new CloudHealth experience. As part of the Open Beta, the Tanzu CloudHealth team is delivering five of the most asked-for features by customers from the last several years including FlexDashboards, Improved Custom Reports, Improved Asset Reports, Realized Savings Report, and Content Sharing. Now, as part of the Open Beta, customers of the new CloudHealth experience will have access to these highly desired features.
Custom Dashboards
Historically, users were only able to use standard reports as the charts, graphs, and widgets as content that were added to their custom dashboards. Since Custom Report Creation was released, there’s been a regular customer ask to include the ability to embed FlexReports into their Dashboards.
No longer…
As part of the new experience open beta, customers are able to embed multiple custom reports into a single dashboard. This includes reports that would have historically been a FlexReport. Custom Dashboards give users unprecedented flexibility to create an experience tailored specifically to their daily roles and priorities.
Unified Reporting
Speaking of FlexReports, one of the biggest challenges for FinOps practitioners in the classic CloudHealth was mastering the learning curve around FlexReports. Though an incredibly powerful resource for the FinOps Practitioner, it helped to have familiarity with SQL and SQL manipulation to take full advantage of FlexReports.
Enter Unified Reporting…
Unified Reporting, along with Intelligent Assist, have been designed to remove the technical barriers and learning curves so that FinOps practitioners of all experience levels can access the data that is most impactful to their business. Unified Reporting gives users a simplified experience for building reports including a built-in SQL IDE and a new calculated column feature available in the form. This enables users to build complex reports that dive deep into the heart of cloud spend in new, exciting, and unique ways.
Assets Reports & The Graph
Asset level visibility isn’t just being able to see what that asset costs or what region it is running in. It’s also about what additional resources that asset is connected to, being able to see the tags and meta data associated with the asset, and ultimately, how the asset is being used. Providing granular reporting on specific assets enables teams to go deeper into their cloud infrastructure more efficiently.
Say “Hello” to the Graph!
The Graph is an incredibly powerful and insightful tool inside the new CloudHealth experience that can be applied to almost any use case. Querying the Graph provides the FinOps Practitioner with on-demand visibility to Asset metadata and the relationships between assets. With the Graph, users can run simple queries to find things like specific tagged assets, unattached disks or volumes, or idle VMs. These instant policy-like asset requests enable a FinOps practice to take action sooner and maintain granular visibility over their multi-cloud environment. In subsequent blogs and videos, we will be diving deeper into some of the use cases and insights that the Graph can provide the modern FinOps Practitioner.
Realized Savings
“How can I tell how much I’ve saved while using CloudHealth?” This has been a common question from CloudHealth users for years. The ability to track cost savings and showcase how the organization being fiscally responsible is crucial for the FinOps Practitioner.
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s… The Realized Savings Report?
Customers can now track their aggregated savings from multiple sources all in one place as part of the Realized Savings dashboard. As part of the default widgets, FinOps practitioners are given insights in Commitment Coverage and Utilization along with Unit Cost and Effective Savings Rate. Acknowledging the work that a FinOps team is doing to optimize their cloud infrastructure is paramount to any organization’s FinOps practice. Realized Savings is here to provide that insight.
Content Sharing
An important role of a FinOps team is the ability to bring an organization together around common goals for their cloud infrastructure. Encouraging collaboration and sharing meaningful and actionable data down to the appropriate teams and business units is a major part of the day to day FinOps team responsibilities. But how does the FinOps team enable their cloud users to take advantage of the depth of data inside Tanzu CloudHealth?
Tah Dah…
Content Sharing enables the FinOps team to share dashboards down to their sub-organizations such as specific teams or business units. Tanzu CloudHealth users have been asking for the ability to create and share reports and dashboards to the team or organization with the specific data that would give them the actionable Insights. As part of the new CloudHealth experience, Content Sharing gives FinOps Teams this crucial collaboration piece.
But wait! There’s more…
While not a requested feature or addressing a specific use case, customers have been asking for an enhanced, simpler, and more functional User Interface. As we have shared throughout our beta announcements, the new CloudHealth experience has been purpose built for the modern FinOps Practitioner and their navigation throughout multi-cloud environments. It’s been designed to make it easier and quicker for a FinOps user to get their daily tasks completed. Alongside Custom Dashboards, Unified Reporting, Improved Asset Reports, Realized Savings, and Content Sharing, the refreshed User Interface provides users with a completely redefined CloudHealth experience to take a FinOps practice to the next level.
The Tanzu CloudHealth team is committed to consistently enhancing the Open Beta of the new experience. If you are a current customer that would like to access the new experience open beta, reach out to your account team today for more information. Access will be available to CloudHealth partners at a later date. To stay on top of the newest functionality rolling into the beta or to learn more about VMware Tanzu CloudHealth in general, please follow the Tanzu CloudHealth team on LinkedIn and YouTube.
