Predictive Control, Multi-Cloud Scale, and Automated Simplicity
Cloud operations move fast and financial control must move even faster. With Surveil’s latest releases, v4.2.0 and v4.2.1, we’ve taken another major step toward making cloud cost management proactive, automated, and truly multi-cloud.
From deeper Azure forecasting and automation to enhanced M365 visibility, AWS one-click onboarding, and full Oracle Cloud support, this release empowers organizations and partners to plan with precision, act with confidence, and govern with measurable FinOps maturity.
Surveil for Azure
Cost Anomaly Detection Enhancements
Surveil’s Anomaly Detection Engine now delivers earlier and more accurate alerts, helping organizations detect cost irregularities before they impact monthly budgets.
What’s new
- Smarter algorithms and expanded data models for real-time anomaly detection
- Broader service coverage and resource analysis
- Refined alert thresholds to reduce false positives
👉 Why it matters: Runaway costs often go unnoticed until the end of the billing cycle. Surveil’s enhanced detection surfaces anomalies as they happen, giving FinOps, IT, and Finance teams the insight needed to prevent unexpected spend before it escalates.
Log Analytics Workspace: New Interface and Optimization Insights
The Log Analytics Workspace experience has been redesigned to make cost and performance optimization effortless. The new interface adds best-practice guidance, quota tracking, and data table insights to eliminate hidden waste.
What’s new
- Modern UI for faster navigation and improved clarity
- Real-time quota monitoring and workspace utilization tracking
- Automated recommendations for efficient data retention and table optimization
👉 Why it matters: Log data is critical for governance, but also a common source of overspend. Surveil’s updated workspace experience provides the intelligence to manage ingestion volume, retention, and performance efficiently, all from a single view.
Azure Load Balancer Optimization
A new automated pipeline now delivers right-sizing recommendations for Azure Load Balancers, combining cost efficiency with performance reliability.
What’s new
- Detects under- or over-provisioned configurations
- Provides SKU and throughput optimization recommendations
- Analyzes usage data for load distribution and traffic patterns
👉 Why it matters: Load Balancers are often overlooked in FinOps practices. Surveil now brings visibility to this critical layer, reducing costs while maintaining optimal system performance.
SQL Database Rightsizing Enhancements
The SQL Database Optimization Engine now evaluates database usage and performance trends with greater accuracy, delivering more actionable right-sizing recommendations.
What’s new
- Enhanced workload analytics for utilization-to-cost correlation
- Improved 1-year and 3-year commitment calculations
- Updated recommendations for elastic pools and single databases
👉 Why it matters: Database costs can spiral quickly. Surveil’s enhanced logic ensures SQL workloads align perfectly with real usage, balancing performance and cost efficiency.
Enhanced Budget Management Capabilities
Budgets are now smarter, proactive, and fully configurable. Surveil’s Budget Management Enhancements empower organizations to plan ahead with predictive insights and automated governance.
What’s new
- Forecast-based warnings: Get alerts before predicted threshold breaches
- Custom budget periods: Define specific start/end dates or ongoing rolling budgets
- Automatic expiry notifications: Stay informed when budgets near expiration
👉 Why it matters: Traditional budgets only show when things go wrong. Surveil helps teams act early, ensuring ongoing compliance and predictable financial performance across projects and departments.
Recommendation Planner: Workflow and Accountability Redefined
The Recommendation Planner receives major upgrades for tracking, ownership, and governance — turning cost-saving opportunities into measurable business outcomes.
What’s new
- Role-based permissions and mandatory metadata fields
- Required comments when archiving for full audit traceability
- “Implemented” status lock to prevent rollback of completed actions
- Automated notifications for inactive recommendations
- Priority-based alerts and escalation workflows
- Unified “Integration Logs” with improved data quality
👉 Why it matters: FinOps success depends on action, not just insight. The new Planner makes every optimization accountable, traceable, and reportable and ensures savings opportunities don’t go unclaimed.
Budget Alerts at Resource Group Scope
Budgets and alerts can now be applied directly at the Resource Group level, offering unparalleled precision in spend tracking.
👉 Why it matters: Organizations can now align cost monitoring and accountability to individual projects, teams, or business units — giving every owner clear visibility and control over their budget performance.
Savings Tracker: Extended Historical View
The Savings Tracker now retains data for a full 12 months, allowing year-over-year trend analysis and improved reporting for governance and FinOps maturity assessments.
👉 Why it matters: With longer retention, organizations can validate optimization progress, report cumulative savings, and demonstrate tangible ROI to leadership and finance stakeholders.
Enhanced Ivanti Integration
Surveil’s Ivanti ITSM integration now provides deeper context and richer ticket automation.
What’s new
- Azure Subscription Name now included in request payloads
- Standardized platform categorization (“Azure”)
- Detailed comments with cost center, projected savings, and resource data
👉 Why it matters: This refined integration ensures IT and FinOps teams can seamlessly collaborate on optimization tasks and brings together cost recommendations and service management in one workflow.
Surveil for Microsoft 365
Enhanced User Account Lifecycle Alerts
Surveil’s Alert Engine now enables comprehensive lifecycle monitoring for M365 accounts, improving both governance and cost control.
What’s new
- Flags disabled or inactive accounts
- Configurable inactivity thresholds based on last sign-in
- Refined rule operators for tailored alert conditions
- Modernized rule-building interface for faster setup
👉 Why it matters: Inactive accounts drive waste and risk. These updates provide visibility across every license, helping organizations reclaim unused subscriptions and maintain a stronger security posture.
Power BI Activity Monitoring
Surveil now integrates with Microsoft’s Power BI Activity Log API, offering unprecedented insight into user activity, adoption, and workspace operations.
What’s new:
- Monitors Power BI Free vs. Pro license usage
- Tracks creators, consumers, and Premium users
- Identifies inactive workspaces and underutilized capacity
- Delivers actionable insights for license right-sizing
👉 Why it matters: Power BI adoption often outpaces governance. Surveil helps optimize licensing, support Copilot readiness, and improve return on investment from Power Platform adoption.
M365 Pricing Enhancements: SKU ID Visibility
SKU IDs and Names are now fully visible and exportable in M365 pricing sheets, providing detailed license tracking and audit-ready reporting.
👉 Why it matters: Accurate SKU visibility supports data-driven renewal negotiations, ensuring enterprises know exactly what they’re paying for — and why.
Redesigned M365 Health Check Dashboard
The new UI-based M365 Health Check Dashboard delivers lightning-fast visibility into organizational health without relying on Power BI.
What’s new:
- Built with SyncFusion for sub-2-second load times
- Dynamic, responsive design for any device
- Executive and technical persona views
- Enhanced data visualization with interactive filtering
👉 Why it matters: Faster access to actionable insights means quicker remediation, better governance, and stronger adoption visibility across your M365 environment.
Surveil for AWS
Automated Customer Onboarding
AWS onboarding is now completely automated and allows partners and customers to configure new environments with a single click using CloudFormation stack deployment directly from the customer portal.
What’s new:
- Automated stack deployment with pre-filled parameters
- Partner-aware injection of AWS account IDs and role ARNs
- Automatic enablement of optimization services (Compute Optimizer, Cost Optimization Hub, Resource Explorer)
- Secure external IDs (UUIDs) generated per customer relationship
👉 Why it matters: This upgrade eliminates manual setup and accelerates onboarding by cutting onboarding time by up to 90%. It’s FinOps automation at scale.
Multi-Cloud Expansion
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Onboarding
Surveil now integrates directly with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure*, extending unified multi-cloudvisibility and FinOps governance across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, M365, and now Oracle.
What’s new:
- Secure onboarding using RSA key pairs and IAM permissions
- Automated data ingestion from Oracle Cost & Usage Reports
- Native support for FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS)
- Unified cost tracking and analytics across all clouds
👉 Why it matters: For enterprises migrating from on-prem Oracle workloads to OCI, this capability enables accurate cost tracking, credit utilization management, and true multi-cloud financial parity — all inside the Surveil platform.
*Note: OCI onboarding is currently only available for multi-cloud customers with active Azure and OCI environments. This release provides full cost and usage visualization. Enhanced OCI functionality — including forecasting, recommendations, and chargeback — is coming soon.
Surveil Navigator (Partner Platform)
GDAP Automation
Managing GDAP relationships no longer requires manual intervention. Navigator’s GDAP Automation* introduces template-based provisioning, orchestration, and reporting to streamline CSP operations.
What’s new:
- Pre-built templates with configurable RBAC roles, duration, and renewals
- Bulk onboarding and automation workflows
- Integrated tracking for GDAP status and relationship health
- Seamless integration with Onboarding and CSP modules
👉 Why it matters: This innovation enables partners to scale secure access management efficiently and ensures compliance, visibility, and operational excellence across large estates.
*Note: Current Surveil Partners are required to perform new CSP Provider Onboarding to unlock capabilities.
Sales Alerts
Navigator Sales Alerts deliver real-time visibility into customer activity, helping sales teams act fast on revenue opportunities and renewals.
What’s new:
- Alerts for license expirations, Azure cost spikes, underutilized resources, and campaign-driven opportunities
- Fully configurable delivery frequency (immediate, daily, weekly, monthly)
- Centralized alert dashboard with full audit logging
👉 Why it matters: Sales teams no longer have to hunt for signals. Navigator surfaces them automatically, driving timely engagement and higher partner ROI.
CSP Billing Analytics – Modernized Experience
Navigator’s Billing Analytics module has been refactored for modern performance and clarity.
What’s new:
- Unified, visually consistent dashboards for customers, resellers, invoices, and GDAP data
- Faster load times and improved filtering
- Standardized drill-downs and export capabilities
- Legacy billing pages now retired in favor of Modern Pages
👉 Why it matters: CSPs gain immediate access to margin insights, invoice reconciliation, and customer trends — all in a clean, data-rich experience purpose-built for partner business growth.
Metrics & Underlying Data Export
Surveil now allows complete data export for all metrics and underlying datasets across Azure, M365, and Navigator.
What’s new:
- Exportable in multiple file formats for external BI tools
- Full transparency into the data powering your insights
- Supports both enterprise and partner-level analysis
👉 Why it matters: Your FinOps data should be as flexible as your business model. Surveil gives you ownership and portability to connect insights wherever you need them.
Platform & Usability
Cloud Assistant: Smarter, Faster, and More Integrated
Surveil’s Cloud Assistant has evolved into a true digital co-pilot for users, connecting answers directly to action.
What’s new:
- Context-aware navigation links embedded within responses
- Personalized overview buttons based on subscription tier
- Persistent navigation between sessions
👉 Why it matters: Whether you’re a partner, FinOps leader, or IT admin, Cloud Assistant reduces friction between insight and execution — guiding users through Surveil’s capabilities intelligently and intuitively.
Stay Informed and Take the Next Step
- Already using Surveil? Log into the platform and click the Help icon in the top-right corner, then select Release Notes to explore all the latest features
- New to Surveil? Contact us to speak with a Cloud Specialist and discover how Surveil can help your organization unlock savings, strengthen governance, and drive smarter cloud decisions