Kubernetes Support for Additional Source Costs (Classic Experience)

Kubernetes reporting in CloudHealth now matches the Opencost standard for cost allocation.

Persistent Volumes, Load Balancers, Cluster Management Fees, Network Egress, Storage and Compute will now be automatically allocated to a user’s containers and displayed on the Kubernetes Cost Reports. 

There is now a new dimension called Cluster Asset Type that will highlight the cost distribution across these different allocation methods. This measure can be found under the Category section of the Kubernetes Cost History Report. 

Cost will be updated in these new columns starting for bills collected on or after August 1st 2025. Historical costs will not change in order to avoid manipulating closed periods. 

In order to take advantage of these changes, make sure you are running version 4.6.3 or later of the Kubernetes agent.

The helm chart for the CloudHealth Kubernetes agent has been migrated to Broadcom's public GitHub repository.  It can be found here (https://github.com/Broadcom/helm) and can be installed using the following command: helm repo add cloudhealth https://broadcom.github.io/helm/ 

Dynamic Cost Reallocation Rules (Classic Experience)

CloudHealth is excited to announce Dynamic Cost Reallocation Rules. When creating cost reallocation rules, users can now dynamically weight allocations by Total Cost, Total Effective Cost and Total Amortized Cost. Selecting one of these total measures will exclude the source cost from the weighting to avoid recursive allocation.

For more information about creating and managing Cost Reallocation Rule, please refer to our technical documentation: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/cloudhealth/tanzu-cloudhealth/saas/tnz-cloudhealth/working-with-reports-and-recommendation-of-tanzu-cloudhealth-cost-reports.html#cost-reallocation

Notification Frequency for Policy Email Action (Classic Experience)

CloudHealth has introduced a new “Notification Frequency” setting for the policy action “Email.” Previously, users were always notified whenever a policy was executed. With this enhancement, users now have the flexibility to receive emails only when new violations are detected, compared to the previous policy run.

By default, the option is set to “Always Notify,” meaning the user will receive an email with the complete list of violations after every policy run. If the user selects “Notify Only on New Violations,” an email will be sent with the complete list of violations only when new violations are identified.

To make this distinction clearer, the email content will also include an identifier labeled “New?” with a Yes/No value for each violation, helping users differentiate new violations from existing ones

Commitment Discounts: Azure Savings Plan (New Experience)

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Spend-Based Commitment Discount Recommendations. This capability provides savings plan recommendations for all eligible Azure services. Users can now review commitment costs and monthly savings, along with detailed insights into how usage aligns at each recommendation level.

These recommendations are surfaced in the CloudHealth platform from Microsoft Azure, with CloudHealth providing additional visibility in coverage, utilization, expiration, and overall Effective Savings Rate. Within the new CloudHealth experience, both AWS Savings Plans and Azure Savings Plans can be reviewed in a single pane of glass, enabling you to assess opportunities across clouds and prioritize those with the highest Return on Investment (ROI).

To access this feature, navigate to: CloudHealth New Experience > Recommendations > Commitment Discounts > Spend-Based Opportunities. For more information, please refer to the associated Help Center article.

For more information about Savings Plans, please visit the CloudHealth Savings Plan Management Tech Doc 

Optimization - Coverage and Utilization for all eligible services (New Experience)

Previously, Commitment Discount Coverage and Utilization metrics in both the Optimization Dashboard and the Realized Savings Dashboard were limited to AWS EC2. We are pleased to announce that these metrics have now been extended to include the majority of services eligible for commitments.

The “Current Coverage” and “Underutilized” metrics in the Optimization Dashboard, as well as the “Commitment Coverage” and “Commitment Utilization” metrics in the Realized Savings Dashboard, have been enhanced to support both spend-based and resource-based commitments across all eligible services.

Please note that Azure services - such as Azure NetApp Files, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Backup etc. have recently been enabled for commitment purchase by Microsoft Azure. The CloudHealth platform will incrementally incorporate these services into coverage and utilization calculations to ensure ongoing accuracy and completeness.

Asset Explorer - Support For Relationship Search (New Experience)

Asset Explorer now supports searching for relationships between resources. Customers can now search for assets that are related to each other. 

To perform this query type, there are two new operators:

• -> will search for two entities that are related to each other

  • AWS.EC2.Instance -> AWS.EC2.Volume will return all EC2 instances that are associated with at least one Volume

• !-> will search for two entities that are not related to each other

  • AWS.EC2.Instance !-> AWS.EC2.Volume will return all EC2 instances that are not related to any volumes

The search results when using the -> operator will return the entity properties on both sides of the relationship, and manage columns will allow you to add properties for either the source or destination entity.

The search results when using the !-> will return the entities of the source entity excluding all rows where a relationship does not exist. 

Relationship Search exports are also available. Exports will contain columns from both sides of the relationship search and will match the layout of the search results screen.

Support for Additional Exports (New Experience)

CloudHealth has added support for additional exports in the new experience

• Cost History report: the table is now exportable to CSV, and the chart is now exportable to both PNG and SVG

• Smart Summary: the Change Reason table is now exportable to CSV, and the chart is now exportable to both SVG and PNG

• Asset Explorer: search results are now exportable to CSV

Exports that take longer than 5 seconds to create will have an option to be delivered by email once they complete.

Partners | Content Packages

CloudHealth is excited to announce that the first phase of Content Packages (previously called User Defined Content) is now generally available. Content Packages enable partners to easily scale a consistent service across their channel customers. This first phase allows you to manage and share FlexReports created in the partner tenant with specific channel customers. Updates to these reports can then be “Published” so that changes made in the partner tenant are reflected in all assigned channel tenants. 

Content Packages will enable Partners to easily customize and standardize the CloudHealth experience for their channel customers. Note that although the partner management of content packages is done in the new experience, all changes and assignments of reports will be visible in both classic and the new experience.

For more details on how to use this feature and ways that you can use it to power your FinOps service, check out our documentation here: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/cloudhealth/tanzu-cloudhealth/saas/tnz-cloudhealth/exploring-cloudhealth-new-experience-assigning-content-packages.html#why-use-content-packages 

Partners | Commitment Discounts

As part of the new CloudHealth experience, CloudHealth has released a new feature to give partners a single view of the commitment discount recommendations across multiple clouds. Similar to the version in a channel tenant, this will combine all spend-based and resource-based recommendations across all services in one view so partners can prioritize commitment purchases aligned with their overall strategy.

Partners | Additional Partner Reporting (New Experience)

Cost History 

The Cost History report is now available within the partner tenant. The numbers in this report should be consistent with the totals when generating a FlexReport off the Cost History datasets. Due to the change in using Effective Cost as the default dimension, please note that it is expected that the totals will not align exactly between the default Cost History OLAP report that is available in the classic experience and this new Cost History in the new experience.

Reports

In addition to the Cost History, we’ve also added the ability to create, edit, and view existing FlexReports. Although there is additional functionality in the new experience when creating FlexReports, reports created here are visible in both classic and the new experience.

Anomaly Detection

Lastly, we have added our Anomaly Detection feature to help partners manage anomalies at the partner level without needing to switch back to classic. The results here should be consistent with the results in the classic experience.

UI Changes, Updates, and Fixes

• Increased the cost history datagrid default page size to 200 to reduce pagination

• Changed sort order based on column type, Text will now sort Descending, and numeric columns will sort Ascending

• Fixed an issue where Cost history sort was case sensitive

• Reordered Cost History filters to match classic experience

• Added additional formatting to highlight which filters are applied on reports 

• Cost history filters can now be cleared at the individual section level

• Fixed an issue where the Cost history filter bar would appear in inconsistent positions

• Resolved a bug where Cost history search would reset sort order

• Increased the size of  Cost history datagrid and chart to improve scrolling

• Added a Cost history total column

• AWS Instance Type, GCP Machine Types, Azure VM Types are now available in the Asset Explorer