We're thrilled to announce a new enhancement to our reporting engine that will make your life even easier. Now, you can export your reports directly to PDF with the click of a button. Whether you need to share your charts with colleagues, clients, or simply want to keep a professional-looking record for yourself, exporting to PDF guarantees that your reports maintain their original format, preserving the integrity of your charts. 

After saving a compatible report, you will see an "export PDF" button in the upper right corner of your chart.

We're excited to introduce an improvement to label selection that we think you'll love - preferred labels. With preferred labels,  you get to choose the labels that matter most to you and have them appear at the top of the selection box, making it easier to find the information you need. Configure your preferred labels now in the labels section found on the admin page. We can't wait for you to try it out!

We are excited to announce the latest feature update to Ternary Case Management, which now includes the ability to create cases directly from the anomalies and optimization pages.

We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest collaboration feature - Ternary Case Management! This cutting-edge tool empowers you to effortlessly create a case for tracking investigations, optimizations, or tasks. Simply attach one or more reports, add assignees, and receive real-time case updates, all while collaborating seamlessly with your team. 

For more information, see our feature write-up and video walkthrough.

In case you missed it, we recently slipped in two enhancements to our Budget and Reporting features. You can now add a daily budget alert to notify you when your spend crosses a percentage threshold of your monthly budget. You can use both daily and monthly alerts in the same budget.

In the Reporting Engine, we made it even easier to quickly filter your most meaningful results using 'Top-N'. 

Just a quick minute of your time to make you aware of a change to our navigation for GCP Cloud SQL and BigQuery. We are are moving the two features to their rightful home in Ternary under Insights. Cloud SQL will live under Database and BigQuery under Data Warehouse as seen in the images below. We expect to ship this navigation update Wednesday, February 8. 

Today, we are excited to provide you with a new view of your existing GCP Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) inventory, utilization, and coverage. 

Similar to other Ternary reporting features, you can now customize and view your CUD look-back period to explore historical usage, and 'Include Future Commitments' modeling to understand current CUD usage against future on-demand usage. Once you have the timeframe you are interested in exploring, you can view charts related to CUD usage over the period and explore the specific CUD instances in your inventory.

And, of course, you can export your CUD utilization metrics and inventory for further analysis. For a more in-depth feature tour, view our brief CUD Visibility and Optimization video.

If you find that your current CUD inventory is missing or you see a message that the feature is not configured, this is most likely a missing GCP permission Ternary requires to query your CUD inventory. Please review our previous post Heads-Up! New GCP Permission Required to update your GCP environment with the required permission. 

A common use case for many organizations is to limit an individual or a team's visibility to only the cost and usage data for which they are responsible. This limitation could be by project, account, service or some combination of labels and tags. You are now able to provide this limited visibility through Enforced Scoped Views. To demonstrate, I begin by creating or editing an Organization Scope View setting a filter on project 'folder-project-01', and in the new 'Enforced For' pulldown, select my dev account to apply my Scoped View or, I could apply and enforce the Scoped View to my entire (Whole) organization.

Now, when I log into Ternary with my dev account, I see that the Enforced Scoped View 'My Org Scoped View' has limited my view of the cost data to project 'folder-project-01'. Enforced Scoped Views provide the foundation for Ternary to layer on new data segmentation features to support your organization's data security and compliance requirements. 

Hi there! We are hard at work preparing to release a significant enhancement to our GCP Committed Use Discount (CUD) feature. To take advantage of the new feature, there is a simple action required on your part to grant a new permission to your GCP Ternary service account. The new permission is compute.commitments.list  We recommend adding the permission now to avoid a disruption when the feature goes live. We plan to launch the new feature in early January 2023.

If you created a custom role in your GCP environment and assigned the role to your GCP Ternary service account, simply edit the custom role adding the compute.commitments. list permission to the role. That's it.

If you assigned built-in GCP roles to your GCP Ternary service account, we recommend creating the custom role described in our GCP Onboarding Instructions. In the onboarding instructions, jump down to Step 4. Grant Ternary Permissions using Cloud Shell or CLI to create your custom role and bind the role to your Ternary service account. You only need to complete Step 4. After successfully creating the custom role and binding the role to your Ternary service account, you can safely remove the built-in GCP roles assignments from your Ternary service account. 

Going forward, we will update the YAML and Terraform files in our Github repo with any new GCP permissions required for future features. We believe this approach follows the best practice of least privilege assigning only the specific permissions Ternary requires to your Ternary service account.

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.