September 2024 (v0.6)

🆕 New in September 2024

• 📗 Implementing FinOps guide introduced a new FinOps best practices library.
• 📊 Power BI reports expanded to include new Governance and Workload optimization reports, and the cost data now includes a customizable set of tags promoted as columns to simplify tag extraction.
• 🏦 FinOps hubs added support for all Cost Management datasets and parquet and GZip CSV support. All datasets are normalized to FOCUS conventions.
• 📒 FinOps workbooks have been packaged together into a single deployment template to deploy both workbooks together.
• 🔍 Azure Optimization Engine replaced storage account key-based auth with Entra ID auth and added a troubleshooting guide.
• 🌐 Open data files adds support for the FOCUS 1.1 ServiceSubcategory column in the Services mapping file.

ℹ️ Updated

• 🏦 FinOps hubs changed the structure of ingested data to support streamlined data queries and future support for ingestion into other systems, as well as various small fixes and improvements.
• 📊 Power BI reports had various small fixes and improvements across all reports.
• 🔍 Azure Optimization Engine improved SQL database security and various other small fixes and improvements.
• 🌐 Open data files were all updated.

🚨 Breaking changes

• FinOps hubs 0.6 changes the storage path data gets written to in the ingestion container.
  • What changed?
    • 0.5 path: {scope}/yyyyMM/focuscost
    • 0.6 path: {dataset}/yyyy/MM/{scope}
  • Why is it changing?
    • Improves performance of Power BI queries.
    • Necessary to clearly differentiate between different datasets.
    • Unblocks streamlined ingestion into other systems (e.g., Azure Data Explorer, Microsoft Fabric).
  • Do I need to re-backfill historical data?
    • No. 0.6 Power BI reports will work with existing exports from FinOps hubs 0.2 or later.
  • What about customized reports?
    • Customized reports from 0.5 or earlier will not work with FinOps hubs 0.6 due to the storage path change.
    • To update custom reports, use the advanced editor to copy each query from 0.6 into your custom report.
    • If you changed the queries, start a discussion to share what you're trying to accomplish so we can attempt to find a way for you to make those changes without being impacted by query updates.

Thanks to @aromano2, @akiskips, @nteyan, @jamelachahbar, @Zeo-shark, @ro100e, @MSBrett, @helderpinto, @arthurclares, and @flanakin for their contributions!

Thanks to @saadmsft, @KevDLR, @akiskips, @didayal-msft, @Springstone, @SCuffy, @CaddyG, @sebassem, and @chris-bowman for their support!

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