We are excited to share the release of our new Google Cloud Storage Visibility feature to help you better understand your bucket storage cost and usage, and to make insightful optimization decisions. With Storage Visibility, you can easily view your aggregate bucket storage costs across projects, GCP regions and GCP storage classes. At the same time, you can view associated usage metrics such as data transfer, operations and storage class. We also think it is becoming increasingly important to know which GCP regions are carbon neutral so your optimization decisions may include sustainability with cost and usage metrics. You will find Storage Visibility under Insights.

Below your aggregate cost charts, you can explore all buckets in your organization and quickly filter a particular project, region or both. (Pro Tip: Click a project, region to filter on the dimensions). Clicking 'View Buckets' (3 stacked dots) will launch a new window with bucket and object details. From here, you can view object counts, bucket lifecycle policies and any optimization recommendations associated with the buckets. For further exploration, you can export the results as a CSV. 

Adding to our already rich collection of report types, we are happy to announce pie charts are available for you to start using today. After adding your measures, groupings and any filters, simply select 'pie' as your chart type. Pie charts are also already available in Dashboards. 

We are excited to share that you will now be able to visualize and report on your GCP Carbon Footprint in Ternary using GCP's carbon footprint data collection and methodology. Configuring your GCP and Ternary environment is very straightforward requiring a new export on the GCP side and enabling carbon footprint ingestion on the Ternary side. Once configured, you will find a new data source and collection of carbon measures in the Ternary Reporting Engine to quickly view your carbon impact based on your specific usage. In generating your Carbon Impact reports, you can continue to use existing GCP labels and any Ternary Custom Labels to group and filter your results. To configure your GCP Carbon Footprint export and configure Ternary to ingest your GCP Carbon Footprint export, follow the steps in our Setup Guide. Once configured, you can create a report using the Ternary Reporting Engine environment selecting the 'Carbon Impact' data source, carbon measures, and any groupings and filters.

In the resulting chart and table, you can view (and export) your total monthly carbon footprint. If carbon footprint is a new area of interest for your business, our Setup Guide includes detail on the carbon measures and references to learn more. As always, we welcome your feedback.

Sometimes you just need to quickly view costs from a different angle such as total cost for a given set of categories over time. We recently released an enhancement making it super easy to pivot your report's x-axis data dimension or stick with the default time series layout. In the example below, the default time series layout shows categories and service description costs over 30 days.

You are now able to choose one of your groupings as your new x-axis dimension, category in this example, to view total spend in each category over 30 days. 

We are happy to introduce a new data freshness indicator in your Ternary cloud configuration. For example, by hovering over the 'cloud' icon in your GCP cloud configuration, you can see the most recent Ternary and GCP billing updates. 

We consider a Ternary update within the last 8 hours or cloud provider update within the last 24 hours healthy or a green data freshness indicator. When we detect a Ternary update greater than 8 hours and less than 24 hours, or a cloud provider update greater than greater than 24 hours and less than 72 hours, we consider this outside of healthy bounds or a yellow data freshness indictor. Finally, if we detect a Ternary update greater than 24 hours or cloud provider update greater than 72 hours, we consider this unhealthy as this example shows with a red warning data freshness indicator (my Azure free tier expired). 

It is now easier to explore your GCP BigQuery usage directly in the Ternary Reporting Engine. We have added a new 'BigQuery Usage' data source with associated BigQuery measures to view and export cost, slot consumption and job detail. And, of course, you can combine your BigQuery measures with any groupings and filters. Have a great Thursday. cheers!

We are excited to announce that Ternary is now able to provide deep Microsoft Azure visibility. With our newest supported cloud provider, Ternary provides visibility across all three leading cloud providers (GCP, AWS, and Azure). Onboarding Azure is quite easy; our Azure onboarding documentation will walk you through the detailed steps to configure and authorize your Azure billing export for Ternary ingestion.

After authorizing Ternary access to your Azure billing export, you are able to create Azure specific cost and usage billing data reports with a simple filter and Azure specific groupings to view your Azure subscription, resource group, and services.

You have always been able to use the Ternary API to generate and manage long-lived API keys for your automation use cases. We have heard that viewing and managing API keys at an organization level can be difficult without a global view. Today, we are happy to release an API key management feature inside the Ternary UI. You will find the new API Keys feature in Settings. 

You can create and delete any number of keys in your Ternary tenant. We still set a maximum key age to 90-days. We do allow you to create a shorter duration. When you create a new key, we give you the opportunity to copy the new key one time. We cannot recover the key. As always, we welcome your feedback!

We have some exciting changes coming to the Ternary Home page over the next couple of months. We want to provide you with more flexibility in building your own Home visualizations by surfacing data in reports and graphs that makes the most sense to you. You may have noticed a couple new updates to the Home page: We have renamed the Home graph (Cost Explorer) to Home Classic and introduced a new button to change your Home page to the new Home Enhanced experience.

Selecting the new Home Enhanced experience automatically displays a pre-built Default Dashboard.

You can toggle back to the Home Classic to compare the enhanced and classic experience. In future iterations, you will be able to select a dashboard you built as your default Home dashboard. We will eventually sunset the Classic Home experience, but want you to have plenty of time to experiment with the new Home Enhanced feature.

Without proper visibility, tracking and gaining deep insight into your cloud database cost and usage can be challenging particularly for organizations with dozens or hundreds of instances. Today, we are excited to take our first step in helping you achieve deeper insight into your GCP Cloud SQL costs across multiple cost (project, database engine, region) and usage (CPU, memory, storage and network) dimensions. Our Cloud SQL visibility also helps you quickly determine how well your Cloud SQL commitments are performing and wether it makes sense to cover any of your on-demand spend with new or additional commitments.

You can find the new Cloud SQL feature under Insights along with Compute, Kubernetes, and Storage. No action is required on your part to start using this feature today. If you have Cloud SQL usage, Ternary will automatically surface your cost and usage.