Today marks a big moment in the new CloudHealth experience. We are excited to release updates and enhancements to the core reporting capabilities of the platform, alongside the top 3 datasets. Expect more reports and datasets to follow quickly. 

New CloudHealth Experience

New Reporting Capabilities 

CloudHealth has significantly enhanced its reporting capabilities with several new functions, including improved column management, the ability to save reports under new names, and enhanced subscription management.

• Customization and Saving: Users can now utilize 'Save' and 'Save-as' options to customize reports with your chosen filters, categories, axis and more. The data table on the report can be customized by adding or removing columns (up to 15 columns) using “Manage Columns”.

• Navigation and Filtering the report list: Finding and organizing reports in the new CloudHealth experience is enhanced with the addition of separate tabs for Standard, Saved, Custom, and Shared reports. You can filter the report list with many filters, including the addition of the Dataset filter to show only reports built on your chosen dataset.

• Subscription Management: Users can create, view, and delete report subscriptions in the new experience. Subscriptions for all onboarded reports will reflect charts in the look and feel of the new experience. 

• Improved Time Filters: You can choose a specific time range or a relative time range (e.g. last 30 days for the report). You can also choose to exclude the current time period from the report. If the report granularity is Monthly and the current month is May, the report will only show data starting in April if the “Exclude Current” option is turned on. 

• Data Visualization: The data table view can now be set to “Match Chart” to show only measures and dimensions that match those on the chart,  or alternatively to show all measures and dimensions available in the backing dataset. Use the “Manage columns” selector to pick up to 15 measures and dimensions in the table.

For more information, refer to Managing Reports.

Saved reports Onboarding

Saved reports on the classic CloudHealth experience for AWS EC2, Data Transfer, and RDS are now accessible to customers within the new CloudHealth experience. The "Saved reports" tab in the new experience allows you to view these reports. Any changes to the reports in the classic experience will be automatically reflected in the new experience. Editing the report in the new experience will “fork” the two reports, effectively severing the synchronisation tie between classic and new experience for that report. For detailed information, please refer to Viewing Classic CloudHealth Saved Reports in the New Experience

Reports in the new experience will undergo a format change. While most reports will remain unaffected, a small number may experience the following changes:

• No Direct and Indirect charges: In the new experience, charges are not split into Direct and Indirect charges.

• Changes to how date filters work: As mentioned earlier, time filters functionality has been improved. In the classic experience, if your report is filtered on a continuous date range with the current time period as the start, that report will be synced to the new experience as a relative date range. All other time filters will be synced as absolute dates. 

• Filters based on perspectives may behave differently: See below in the bug fix section for more details. 

• Classic Report Limitations: It will not be possible to add Forecasting, Sum of Measures, Delta, or Archives to saved reports in the classic experience if the report has been synced with the new experience. It is possible to create a new report in the classic experience with these functionalities. New reports will not be automatically onboarded to the new experience. 

• Subscription S3 Delivery Path Change: Once you subscribe to a report in the new experience, all subscriptions for that report are moved to the new experience subscription system. When you choose S3 delivery, we will create a dedicated folder per report under the path you choose. This is consistent with how FlexReport subscriptions currently work, but is a change from how OLAP report subscriptions work. Users may configure the root path for these new subscriptions.

• Permission Requirement: Users will need Flexreports permissions to manage their Saved reports in the new experience. See the CloudHealth help documentation for more details on defining roles and permissions. 

New Standard Reports and Datasets for EC2, RDS and Data Transfer

We are pleased to introduce the new Standard cost and usage reports for AWS EC2, RDS, and Data Transfer. Each report is backed by a standard dataset that allows you to curate and combine data in order to create datasets and reports that make most sense for your business. If you prefer, you can just use the pre-created standard report out of the box, or have the best of both worlds and use the standard report to build your own version. 

We have focused on standardization, consistency and usability of these new reports. They include common measures such as effective cost, billed cost, and list cost. Importantly, they will also retain all measures from their corresponding standard reports in the classic CloudHealth experience, making onboarding to the new experience as seamless as possible.

Report Visibility Naming

In CloudHealth, it is possible to keep reports private so only the author can see the report, or to push them to a broader audience. Previously the terms used were “Private” and “Public”. The Public term caused confusion because it didn’t clearly specify the outcome of setting the report’s visibility to Public. In order to address this, we have changed the terms to be “Private” and “Share with Org”. 

If you are an admin in the Top-level Organization, you can “Publish” the report to all your downstream organizations once its visibility has been set to “Share with Org”.

UI Changes, Updates, and Fixes

Bug Fixes

“Other” category relabeled back to “Assets Not Allocated”: In a past update, the uncategorized perspective group name was mistakenly referred to as “Other” in Flexreports. All other reports in the classic platform maintained the correct group name as “Assets Not Allocated”. This has now been corrected and all report types will show the uncategorized group name as “Assets Not Allocated”.  Any saved report that uses perspective as a filter to match “Other” (i.e. your intention is to match uncategorized assets), the report will no longer work as intended. You will need to change your filter in the saved report to look for “Assets Not Allocated” instead of “Other”.