What’s New at Surveil: Product Release v4.3.3
FinOps for AI Becomes Operational: Cost Visibility, Optimization Intelligence, and Accountable Outcomes
AI is no longer experimental. It is becoming one of the fastest growing and least predictable cost layers in the enterprise cloud. As organizations scale Azure OpenAI, AI Search, and emerging AI workloads, traditional FinOps practices are being pushed to their limits. Costs are fragmented across models, tokens, and infrastructure. Usage patterns are volatile. And most teams lack the visibility needed to make confident decisions.
With Surveil v4.3.3, we take a major step forward in helping enterprises bring financial accountability to AI.
At the center of this release is AI Manager for Azure, introducing dedicated cost visibility, performance insight, and optimization pipelines for AI workloads. Alongside this, we continue strengthening Azure optimization, enhancing Microsoft 365 governance and recommendations, and improving partner and platform experiences.
This release is about one thing: Turning AI cost complexity into clear, accountable outcomes.
FEATURE RELEASE
AI Manager: Azure AI Recommendation Pipelines
Optimizing AI infrastructure spend with precision and accountability
AI workloads introduce a new class of financial risk. Token-based pricing, model selection, and infrastructure sizing can drive significant cost variation, often without clear visibility into where inefficiencies exist.
AI Manager now introduces a dedicated suite of Azure AI recommendation pipelines, helping organizations optimize AI infrastructure spend and ensure they are using the most current and cost-effective configurations.
What’s new
- Switch to PTU (Qualification): Identify when moving from pay-as-you-go to Provisioned Throughput Units reduces cost
- PTU Sizing: Right-size PTU commitments based on real usage patterns
- Azure Search Upgrade Required: Flag under-provisioned services impacting performance
- Azure Search Downgrade Opportunities: Recover spend from over-provisioned configurations
- Outdated Model in Use: Surface deprecated or inefficient AI model usage<
👉 Why it matters
AI spend is often opaque, volatile, and difficult to govern. With AI Manager, organizations can:
- Reduce AI infrastructure costs through optimized pricing models
- Improve performance and reliability across AI services
- Eliminate waste from outdated models and over-provisioned resources
- Make data-driven AI investment decisions with confidence
This transforms AI from a financial risk into an accountable, optimized investment.
AI Manager: Cost Visibility, Usage Analytics, and Performance Monitoring
A dedicated FinOps workspace for AI
AI Manager introduces a purpose-built workspace that brings together cost, usage, and performance data across Azure AI services.
Why it matters
Organizations gain:
- Full visibility into AI cost drivers across models and tokens
- Accurate attribution of AI spend to workloads and resources
- Real-time performance insights for capacity planning
- A unified view of AI operations within the broader cloud estate
This enables teams to align on AI cost, performance, and business value with accountability.
Surveil for Azure
Savings Tracker Filtering
Unified reporting for accurate savings accountability
Surveil has improved how date filters apply across the Savings Tracker, ensuring consistency between summary insights and detailed reporting views.
👉 Why it matters: FinOps teams rely on accurate, consistent reporting to validate savings and demonstrate outcomes. With unified date filtering, organizations can trust that all views reflect the same time period—eliminating confusion and strengthening financial accountability.
SQL vCore Rightsizing Recommendations
Reduce database spend with zero guesswork
Surveil now delivers rightsizing recommendations for Azure SQL databases using real performance data and accurate pricing logic.
👉 Why it matters: Organizations can confidently reduce database costs while maintaining performance, backed by real usage data and clear savings projections.
Premium SSD v2 Disk Recommendations
Unlock storage savings with precision pricing
Surveil now identifies when migrating to Premium SSD v2 results in real cost savings, using metered pricing across storage, IOPS, and throughput.
👉 Why it matters: Teams can optimize storage costs with full transparency, avoiding over-provisioning while maintaining performance headroom.
VM Reserved Instance Pipeline Enhancements
Accelerate commitment decisions with confidence
The RI pipeline now operates on daily data, enabling more flexible and aggressive commitment strategies.
👉 Why it matters: Organizations can move faster on 1-year and 3-year reservations based on proven usage patterns—improving cost efficiency and commitment utilization.
Zombie Resource Cost Visibility
Surface and eliminate hidden waste
Cost savings are now fully visible for orphaned Public IPs and App Service Plans.
👉 Why it matters: All zombie resources now include actionable savings data, ensuring no optimization opportunity is missed.
Reserved Instance Data Reliability Improvements
Trust your financial data across all contracts
Surveil now reconstructs missing RI pricing data using billing transactions when Microsoft APIs fall short.
👉 Why it matters: Finance and FinOps teams can rely on complete, accurate reservation data for reporting and planning.
Subscription Selection on Sync
Reduce noise and improve data relevance
Users can now control which subscriptions are included during Azure sync.
👉 Why it matters: Improves signal quality and ensures analysis focuses only on relevant environments.
Savings Tracker and Recommendation Planner Enhancements
Cleaner execution, stronger accountability
Updates improve filtering, exports, and data accuracy across optimization workflows.
👉 Why it matters: Teams gain clearer insights and better visibility into optimization progress and realized savings.
Surveil for Microsoft 365
New M365 Recommendations Experience
Turn insight into action at enterprise scale
Turn insight into action at enterprise scale. M365 recommendations have been fully redesigned with a structured, prioritized experience — organizing recommendations into categories, sub-categories, and per-user detail so partners know exactly what to act on first, why it matters, and can execute in bulk. Less time triaging, faster time-to-savings.
👉 Why it matters:
- Manage thousands of recommendations with clarity
- Execute actions in bulk
- Align teams through a shared workflow
- Track realized value consistently
This transforms Microsoft 365 optimization from analysis into an operational, accountable process.
AI Agent Visibility
Govern AI identities before they become risk
Your next 100 employees won’t have a heartbeat
Microsoft Agent 365 goes GA on 1 May 2026. AI agents will get identities, mailboxes, Teams presence, and licenses — just like humans. But unlike humans, they’ll multiply fast, and nobody’s watching. Surveil now surfaces AI agent identities alongside your users — so you can see them, govern them, and control their cost before they become a risk.
👉 Why it matters:
- Identity Blind Spot
- Today, AI agents don’t show up in your license reports. They’re invisible to governance, audit, and cost tracking. As organizations scale agent deployments, this becomes an uncontrolled attack surface and a cost leak.
- Hidden Cost Multiplier
- Each agent instance: $15/mo (Agent 365) + potential E5 ($60) + Copilot ($30) + consumption. A single governed agent could cost $105/mo — and a single blueprint can spawn unlimited instances. There’s no ceiling.
- Compliance Exposure
- Agents authenticate with their own service principals, hold API permissions, and access data. Without visibility, you can’t answer ‘how many agents access our data?’ or ‘who authorized this agent?’ for audit.
Contract Center: CSP Support
Remove friction from contract planning
The Contract Center can now be accessed to all end customers and partners without full pricing configuration.
👉 Why it matters: Teams can engage earlier in contract planning and avoid delays in renewal preparation.
Copilot Dashboard Card
Instant visibility into AI adoption
A new Copilot card provides at-a-glance insights directly from the M365 dashboard.
👉 Why it matters: Leaders can quickly assess Copilot adoption and usage without navigating deeper into the platform.
Copilot Candidate Recommendation Improvements
Improve AI license allocation accuracy
Recommendation logic now accounts for additional Copilot SKUs, reducing false positives.
👉 Why it matters: Organizations allocate Copilot licenses more effectively reducing waste and improving ROI.
Enhanced User Activity Signals
Better data for better decisions
Non-interactive sign-in data is now included in user activity tracking.
👉 Why it matters: Improves license optimization accuracy and strengthens security visibility.
Surveil Navigator (for Partners)
Improved Health Check Dashboard
Focus on active revenue opportunities
Navigator now surfaces only customers with active Health Check licenses by default.
👉 Why it matters: Partners gain a clearer view of active engagements and can prioritize the highest-value opportunities.
Platform Usability
Marketplace Vendor Markup Support
Align cost data with real-world billing models
Partners can now configure vendor-level markup for Marketplace purchases.
👉 Why it matters: Ensures accurate invoice reconciliation and eliminates discrepancies between Microsoft billing data and customer-facing invoices.
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.