Tanzu CloudHealth and the FinOps Framework
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Understand
cloud usage and cost
Get complete visibility into multi-cloud environments by organizing resources into business groupings, accurately accounting for costs, and performing chargeback and cost reallocation.
- Perspectives. Organize resources into business groupings using tags and metadata, with new resources dynamically added as your environment changes.
- Amortized Cost Reports. Understand how upfront costs are distributed over the useful life of an RI, looking at either the account/group that made the purchase or received the discount.
- Reports and Dashboards. Drill down further into data sets with out-of-the-box and customizable reports to uncover answers to key questions like, “Which apps are costing me the most money?”.
- Custom Line Items and Cost Reallocation. Understand fully-loaded costs by accounting for third-party costs and attributing them to the proper business groups.
- Tag Management. Consolidate disparate tagging structures from multiple clouds to improve the accuracy and reliability of reports.
- Anomaly Detection. Get alerted to meaningful changes or unusual spending activity that might indicate a problem.
Quantify
business value
Quantify the business value driven by cloud usage by turning vast amounts of data into actionable insights to enable real-time decision-making and benchmarking.
- Machine Learning-powered Forecasting. Derive an overall forecast and compare outputs based on different variables and filters.
- Budget Management. Track spend against budgets and receive notifications when they are forecasted to be reached or exceeded.
- Unit Economics. Articulate the value of cloud operations to show how cloud spend factors into costs per unit.
- FlexReports. Surface actionable insights with granular, flexible reporting that can easily be shared with key stakeholders.
- Customer Benchmarking. Identify areas for improvement and define key performance indicators (KPIs) with the help of Tanzu CloudHealth Customer Success.
Optimize cloud usage and cost
Optimize rates across clouds through better commitment discount management, and rightsize resource usage to eliminate wasted spend.
- Pulse Reports. Explore immediate optimization opportunities, governance policy violations and security risks.
- Kubernetes Usage Reports. Inform decisions about optimizing resource requests and container limits.
- Rightsizing Recommendations. Benefit from recommendations that resize your instances to save costs while meeting performance needs.
- Savings Automator. Bring savings automation to the CI/CD pipeline by automatically implementing applicable optimization recommendations.
- Commitment Discount Recommendations. Receive recommendations for purchasing, modifying or exchanging commitment-based discounts based on your targets and parameters.
Manage the
FinOps practice
Manage the FinOps practice successfully with expertise and tools designed to drive organizational alignment.
- Policies. Maintain guardrails and a continuously optimized state by creating policies that trigger alerts and take automated actions.
- FlexOrgs. Map business hierarchy in the platform and manage access and permissions for different user groups.
- GreenOps. Gain visibility into carbon emissions, rightsize infrastructure to be more energy efficient, and use on/off policies so services aren’t in use when they aren’t needed.
- APIs and Webhooks. Extend data to and from the platform to integrate other business systems, processes and workflows.
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