Fresh from the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates May 2026
About the Author: Cathal Cleary - Product Leader | CloudHealth, Governing Board | FinOps Foundation
Spring is in full swing, the days are getting longer, and here at the labs, our engineering teams have been burning some serious midnight oil. We are just days away from packing our bags for FinOpsX in San Diego, and the excitement is palpable. If you’re heading out there, please come find us on the expo floor on booth #E8! We’d love to hand you some fresh swag, walk you through a live demo, or just chat about how your cloud journey is going. We even have a cool way to win better swag. Grab a coffee from our barista to find out more.
But you don't have to wait until San Diego to see what we've been building. We have a massive lineup of updates this month spanning AI tracking, multi-cloud optimization, and deeper dashboard customization.
Settle in and let’s dive into what’s fresh from the labs this month!
The Million-Dollar Question: What is AI Actually Costing Us?
Let’s start with our newest Data Connect branded connector: OpenAI. It seems like every engineering team is spinning up new AI initiatives, which is fantastic for innovation—but less fantastic for the person managing the cloud budget. Up until now, tracking those direct OpenAI transactions felt a bit like looking into a black box. We wanted to fix that. This month, we’re introducing our new branded Data Connect for OpenAI.
The setup is beautifully simple: you plug in your OpenAI organizationID and an API Key, and CloudHealth takes care of the rest. Once the ingestion completes, you’ll find a brand new Dataset and Standard Report waiting for you called OpenAI Cost and Usage.
A quick note on data privacy: We know a lot of you are asking about user-level attribution. While OpenAI’s APIs do allow us to collect the username field, we’ve intentionally dropped it for this initial release. Why? Because we firmly believe you should have total control over any dataset containing PII. We’re currently building a simple toggle that lets you turn this on and off at will. Once that's ready, user-name level reporting will officially land in a future release.
Making Sense of the Noise: Azure Smart Summaries & KPI Widgets
We’ve all been there—you open a dashboard, look at a massive spike in your cloud spend, and immediately feel your blood pressure rise. You don’t just want to see that it went up; you want to know why without spending three hours digging through line items. That’s where Smart Summary comes in.
And great news, we’ve extended our Smart Summary capability to Azure. Now, Azure users can instantly see exactly what kind of usage is driving their costs, spot deltas, view normalized differences, and calculate unit costs at a glance. The best part? When you drill down into a smart summary, it takes you straight to the exact names of the resources responsible for the spike. No more guessing games.
Speaking of dashboards, sometimes you don't need a complex chart; you just need one big, bold number that tells the story of your efficiency. To give you exactly that, we’ve launched the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Dashboard Widget.
With this new widget, you can take any existing report and aggregate up to two measures into a single, high-impact number. Whether you want to track a Sum, Average, Maximum, or Minimum, it’s entirely up to you. Just click the little pencil icon on the widget to open up the configuration wizard, and you can seamlessly map out your report selection, time intervals, comparisons, and drill-down behaviors.
Hunting Down Inefficiencies Across GCP and Azure
FinOps isn’t just a reporting exercise; it’s about taking action. This month, we’ve rolled out major upgrades to help you find and eliminate waste across both Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Massive Expansions for GCP Rightsizing
For our Google Cloud practitioners, we’re expanding rightsizing recommendations across a massive footprint of services. We’re talking Compute Instances, Compute Instance Group Managers, Compute Images, Compute Instance IP Addresses, Disks, and CloudSQL Instances.
Depending on what the data tells us, CloudHealth will now flag these assets with clear directives: Terminate, Downsize, Upsize, Autoscale, or Optimize Configuration. You can track the status of these recommendations directly as Active or Dismissed. (Note: To pull this data from Google's Recommender APIs, just make sure your data collection service account has Recommender Viewer access—roles/recommender.viewer—on your target projects.)
Shifting Azure Database Savings into High Gear
On the Azure side, we’re keeping the momentum going by adding support for the newly launched Azure Database Savings Plans. We’ve integrated these native recommendations directly into our optimization suite alongside your existing Compute Savings Plans.
We’ve brought this into the CloudHealth New Experience, meaning your AWS and Azure savings plans are now unified in a single, beautiful view. To check it out, head over to CloudHealth New Experience > Recommendations > Commitment Discounts > Spend-Based Opportunities. It’s never been easier to prioritize your highest-ROI cloud commitments.
Bringing the Whole Picture Together: Hybrid Cloud & Realized Savings
If you’re running a true enterprise environment, the cloud is only half the story. You still have data centers to worry about, and your CFO still wants to know exactly how much money your optimization efforts actually saved last quarter.
To bridge the hybrid gap, we are bringing data center cost history into the new CloudHealth experience as a consumable dataset: Datacenter Server Cost and Usage. Now, you can run cross-technology analysis that blends public cloud, private data centers, SaaS, and AI spend all within a single view.
And when it comes to proving your worth to leadership, we’ve expanded our Realized Savings widgets to support Azure.
Now, when you take action to terminate or downsize Azure resources—like VMs, Disks, Scale Sets, or SQL Databases—those savings are automatically quantified and pulled straight into your Eliminated Resources and Downsized Resources widgets. When you crush waste, you deserve the credit for it, and now you have the automated receipts to prove it.
Big Little Things: Extra Azure Asset Support
To wrap things up, we have a highly requested update to CloudHealth's asset support.
We’ve expanded our asset inventory in the new experience to support Azure Functions and Azure Function Apps. Navigate to Explore > Assets and click the Azure.AppService tab to see them. They fully support policies like missing tags and blend seamlessly into your Perspectives.
Let’s Connect!
We are incredibly proud of the work the team put into the platform this month, but we’re even more excited to see how you use these tools to drive real efficiency in your organization.
Don't wait until we get to San Diego to start saving. If you aren't using these features yet, dive into the platform or spin up a free trial today to jumpstart your June optimization.
Until next month—happy building, and see you in California?