The costs of running modern cloud environments can escalate quickly, especially when engineering and finance teams lack a unified view into usage and spend. That’s why we’re excited to share that New Relic’s Cloud Cost Intelligence (CCI) will be available soon.
CCI is designed to give DevOps, FinOps, and platform engineering teams real-time visibility into cloud spending across multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments—so you can analyze spend, detect anomalies, and align costs to business outcomes without navigating separate tools or spreadsheets. It’s observability-driven FinOps, directly within your New Relic platform.
Bridging Observability with Cost-Aware Engineering
Here’s how Cloud Cost Intelligence empowers teams to connect cloud cost insights with operational telemetry, without switching tools or relying on outdated billing reports.
- Full Visibility and Cost Optimization at Scale: Get real-time transparency into your cloud computing platform and Kubernetes spend with dashboards that surface amortized, blended, unblended, and on-demand costs. CCI maps telemetry to business units, apps, and environments—and highlights cost anomalies, underutilized resources, and usage trends so you can take immediate action.
- Real-Time Cost Estimation: No more waiting on billing reports. CCI provides up-to-the-minute cost estimates using telemetry and historical data, giving engineering and finance teams an instant and immediate view of cost impacts - no 1-2 day wait/lag.
- Customizable Filters for Actionable Insights: Drill down by team, application, region, or service to view cost trends across every dimension of your business. CCI helps align cloud usage to your strategic goals—and allows everyone to speak the same language about cloud costs.
- Define Budgets: Empower teams with democratized financial governance by establishing comprehensive cost budgets across all business and technology dimensions, complete with proactive alerting to keep spending on track.
- Harness the Power of NRQL: Gain deep insights into your cost data using the flexible and robust NRQL query language to create custom views and dashboards tailored to your needs. Seamlessly integrate with notification workflows to automatically detect and respond to cost spikes.
- Smart Cost Allocation: Intelligently distribute costs using cloud resource tags and Kubernetes labels through our advanced rule-based engine, enabling you to focus on the expenses that drive the greatest impact for your organization.
Getting Started
Once CCI is enabled in your account, access the Summary dashboard via the Cloud Cost Intelligence tab in New Relic. Explore widgets like:
- Total cost
- Top 5 cost variances
- Cost spread by region
- Key Insights
- Amortized vs. blended costs
See complete documentation: Cloud Cost Intelligence Docs
What’s Next
Cloud Cost Intelligence will be available soon— be among the first to explore it.
→ Explore Cloud Cost Intelligence on the New Relic platform
Don’t have New Relic yet? Sign up for free and — includes 100 GB/month of free data ingest, unlimited free basic users, and immediate access to New Relic’s Cloud Cost Intelligence monitoring preview. Start optimizing your cloud computing platform and Kubernetes spend—no separate billing tool required.
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