Overview

Our anomaly detection now identifies new services, new regions, and marketplace purchases, giving you early visibility into unplanned or newly introduced costs. You’ll be notified when:

A service is used for the first time.
An existing service starts running in a new region.
New marketplace purchases occur.

This update ensures these scenarios, which were previously missed, are surfaced in the Anomaly Detection section under the 'New Service Anomaly' new tab.

How It Works

Detection Logic

Detect amortized cost charges for a new service, and track the current daily cost from the time the service is detected (in case of a MSP customer with under shared account the used cost is Unblended).
Historical data is considered to determine if a service is new (lookback logic).
There is no Open/Close notion; once triggered, the new service anomaly is used for awareness only and isn’t continuously tracked or updated.
Alerting and Actions can be applied on the anomaly. Users have the option to acknowledge alerts and add comments for internal tracking.
New Service Anomaly Dimensions, the following dimensions are displayed in both the UI table and email alerts:
- Account
- Linked Account/Subscription/Project
- Region
- Service
- New Service Cost: The total cost accumulated by the new service from the time it was first detected.

Alert Rules Configuration

Alerts can be filtered and customized using the following rules:

Minimum new service cost: Enter the minimum new service cost threshold to trigger an alert
Region
Linked Account/Subscription/Project
Service
Enrichment Tags
Recipient list: Users who should receive the alert notifications

Actions

The following action is available from both All Anomalies/Alerts tabs:

You can continue the investigation in cost & usage explorer.

The following action is available from both only on the anomaly alert in the Alerts tab:

Add comment per anomaly alert
Mark the Alert as 'Resolved' or 'Acknowledged'