Feb 9 2026
Feature Engineering
Consolidate scattered cost labels into clean, standardized dimensions with the Feature Engineering page:
- Merge columns from multiple sources into a single logical label
- Map and rename values to standardize naming across providers (e.g., unify region names across AWS, GCP, and Azure)
- AI-powered similarity detection suggests values that should be grouped together, reducing manual effort
- Drag-and-drop reordering to organize your engineered labels
Feb 5 2026
Smarter Alerts for Cost and Budget Monitoring
Stay ahead of cost anomalies with a redesigned alerts system supporting multiple alert types and notification channels:
- Cost Alerts monitor actual spending against custom thresholds — get notified when costs spike or drop unexpectedly
- Budget Alerts track spend against allocated budgets with percentage-based triggers and automatic owner notifications
- Multi-threshold severity levels (Info, Warning, Alert) with daily, weekly, or monthly evaluation periods
Feb 2 2026
Dashboards with the Advanced Explorer
Dashboards can now be edited in-line, allowing you to change titles, resize tiles, and add and delete widgets with fewer clicks. Further changes:- Creating a dashboard widget no longer requires saving a view
- Dashboards now support Text widgets for additional context
- Templates allowing you to get started faster than ever
Jan 30 2026
Introducing the Advanced Explorer
The classic Cost Explorer shows where your cloud spend goes. Advanced Explorer goes further — overlay multiple metrics, build formulas on the fly, drill into anomalies, and save your analysis as reusable views.
- Multiple Metrics — Plot cost alongside usage metrics, business KPIs, or custom data on the same chart. Each metric gets its own axis.
- Ad-hoc Formulas — Create calculated fields like cost-per-user or cost-per-request. Combine any metrics with arithmetic operations.
- Aggregations — Go beyond sum. Use average, max, or min to analyze your data the way you need.
Flexible Comparison — Enable comparison mode to see a waterfall chart breaking down exactly what changed between two time periods. Sort by absolute or percentage change.
Undo/Redo — Cmd+Z to undo, Cmd+Shift+Z to redo. Explore freely without losing your work.
Time Navigation — Arrow buttons slide your view backward or forward by one period. Last month becomes the month before with a single click.
Jan 23 2026
Stay Connected with Teams
Send digests and alerts directly to Teams channels alongside Slack.
Keep your entire organization informed about cost changes and anomalies in the collaboration tools they already use.Jan 16 2026
New Setup Flows for AWS and Azure
Step-by-step setup flows with copy-paste commands and real-time validation. Our guided wizards walk you through creating cost exports and configuring permissions, with instant feedback to ensure everything is set up correctly.
For AWS, you can now set up billing exports using a one-click CloudFormation stack. The template creates the CUR 2.0 export and configures the IAM role with the required permissions automatically.Jan 9 2026
Daily Scheduled Reports
Scheduled reports now support daily frequency, so you can receive cost summaries every morning alongside your existing weekly and monthly schedules.Dec 26 2025
Fully Automated Digest
Digests are now fully automated — configure once and Costory generates your cost reports on schedule with background processing. Each digest includes markdown-rendered analysis with auto-generated charts, organized in a 5-step config modal for quick setup.
Dec 16 2025
Amplitude Integration
Correlate product usage with cloud costs. Connect your Amplitude project to bring Daily Active Users into Costory, then visualize usage trends alongside infrastructure spend. Supports both US and EU data regions with 12 months of historical data synced automatically.
Dec 11 2025
Meet Costory Spotlight
Press Cmd/Ctrl+K from anywhere to open Spotlight and navigate directly to your most-used views and features. Start typing to search across dashboards, saved views, metrics and more. Arrow keys navigate, Enter opens, Escape closes.
Spotlight adapts to your usage — you’ll see your recent dashboards, recently accessed views, and the most popular views across your team from the last 30 days. Community templates give you ready-to-use starting points for common analyses.
Dec 5 2025
Smarter Cost Analysis with Billy
Billy got a major upgrade to how it understands and navigates your cost data. Improved vocabulary and column-naming awareness means Billy now interprets dimensions, labels, and groupings more accurately — fewer false leads, more relevant breakdowns.Under the hood, heavy columns are now tokenized for faster processing, and a new prompt architecture gives Billy better guidance on when to drill deeper versus when to surface results. Combined with the group-by quality scoring introduced in November, Billy’s investigations are sharper and faster than ever.Nov 27 2025
Streamlined Onboarding
Organization creation is now fully automated during sign-up — no manual steps required. The onboarding flow also supports organization hierarchies for teams managing parent and child accounts, with smarter defaults and improved invite handling.Nov 20 2025
Multi-Org Support, Exports & Quality of Life
- Multi-organization support — manage multiple organizations from a single account and switch between them seamlessly
- Cleaner PNG exports — exports now match exactly what you see on screen, with proper borders and shadows
- Rename metrics without recreating them, and delete dashboards and views from anywhere
Nov 7 2025
A New Look for Billy
Billy now generates full markdown for each node with dynamic chart generation. After identifying contributing factors for a cost spike, Billy picks the most relevant dimension to visualize the underlying cost drivers at a glance.
The digest modal got a visual refresh — cleaner layout, easier navigation, and quick toggles to show or hide charts while reading.
Interactive Feedback and Continuity — provide feedback to Billy and specify how to update an existing report. Billy regenerates each node according to your specifications, and all previous versions are saved so you can pick up where you left off.
Nov 5 2025
Under the Hood: Billy Becomes an AI Agent
Billy evolved from a fixed analysis pipeline into an autonomous AI agent powered by Gemini. Instead of following predetermined steps, Billy now reasons about your data — deciding which dimensions to investigate, which statistical tests to run, and how to present findings.Key changes under the hood:- Tool-based architecture — Billy has its own toolbox: assess group-by quality, fetch timeseries, run contributing factor analysis, and pull historical cost context
- Statistical dimension selection — a concentration index scores each dimension before Billy drills in, so analysis focuses on what actually explains cost changes
- Parallel data fetching — timeseries queries now run concurrently, cutting investigation time significantly
- Events & knowledge retrieval — Billy can now pull events and organizational knowledge directly into its analysis, cross-referencing deployments, incidents, and internal context for richer explanations
Oct 30 2025
A New Look for the Explorer and Dashboards
The library is now keyboard-first — navigate everything with Cmd/Ctrl+K, arrow keys, and shortcuts. Consistent color schemes across all charts make it easier to track dimensions visually.
The query builder has been updated with a cleaner interface, and you can now filter dashboards by view to focus on the data that matters most.
Inline editing lets you modify dashboards without leaving the page, and you can create new views directly from within dashboards. Change the time period on any dashboard without leaving the page, and create saved views straight from the dashboard modal.
Oct 15 2025
Consistent Color Palette & Mobile Sign-Up
All charts now use a consistent color palette with full hex color support, making it easier to track dimensions visually across views and dashboards. The sign-up page is also now fully optimized for mobile.
Oct 8 2025
Aiven Billing Integration
Track your Aiven managed service costs alongside other cloud providers. Billing data syncs automatically with full historical import.
Oct 1 2025
Redesigned Onboarding & Sign-Up
A completely overhauled onboarding flow with automated organization creation, smarter defaults (start date now defaults to 3 months ago), and a redesigned sign-up page optimized for mobile. Setup wizards now link directly to the relevant documentation.Sep 17 2025
Event Correlations & Advanced Cost Metrics
Events Correlations in the Digest — correlated events now appear for every cost change and trend, helping you identify root causes and share findings with your organization.
Also new: GBP currency support and advanced AWS cost metrics including Unblended, Net Unblended, Amortized, and Net Amortized cost views. The “Others” category in the explorer now shows up to 200 items for deeper analysis.
Sep 4 2025
Feature Engineering in Labels Explorer
Introducing Feature Engineering in the Labels Explorer — a powerful way to standardize and transform cost labels across all cloud providers.- Select & Merge Labels — choose multiple labels from different sources and merge them into a single, unified label
- Map Values — standardize disparate values (e.g., map “prod”, “production”, “prd” all to “Production”)
- Name & Save — give your new label a clear name and save it for use across all analyses
Aug 29 2025
Trends Detection & New Charts
Billy now analyzes your spending and overlays trends directly on charts, helping you distinguish signal from noise. In digests, trend charts with event markers let you correlate changes with deployments, incidents, or infrastructure updates.
PNG exports now include event markers with labels and descriptions, rendered with smart positioning — making exported charts presentation-ready with full context.Better chart controls — interactive legends let you highlight series on hover and hide/show specific data by clicking. Tooltips sort values in descending order for quick identification of top contributors.
Aug 5 2025
Digests Redesigned
Digests redesigned from the ground up — a cleaner modal with badge-based organization. Collapse and expand sections as you review, with “Expand All” / “Collapse All” for quick navigation. Compare periods side by side with current month in solid blue and previous in dashed gray, with percentage changes in tooltips.
Jul 30 2025
Datadog Billing & Events in Saved Views
Datadog billing integration — track observability costs alongside cloud infrastructure with a setup wizard supporting both US and EU instances.Events in saved views — bookmark deployments, incidents, and releases to have them automatically appear on relevant dashboards. Event filters now save with your views.
Jul 17 2025
Billy Investigates Your Cost Spikes
When Costory detects unusual spending, Billy automatically analyzes the spike and identifies contributing factors — within minutes. The analysis appears directly in your digest and respects your exclusion filters, so you only see what matters.
Jun 26 2025
Modern Group By & Events from Anywhere
The redesigned group by widget uses color-coded pills for different dimension categories (Infrastructure, Applications, etc.). Search finds dimensions by their actual values, not just names — searching “prod” finds dimensions containing “production” values. Full keyboard navigation makes exploration fast.
Events from anywhere — create events via public API from CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, or ticketing systems. Track AWS price changes, Reserved Instance purchases, and Savings Plan commitments automatically. GitHub integration monitors pull request merges, repository creation, and releases.Jun 19 2025
AI Suggests the Dimensions That Matter
Billy now analyzes your data and suggests the most relevant dimensions to group by. The suggested axes feature scores dimensions by impact, showing which ones have the highest explanatory power. A sparkle icon marks suggestions, and you can auto-select them for instant insights.
Jun 2 2025
Confluent Cloud, Split Costs & Integration Improvements
Confluent Cloud billing with automated BigQuery sync and historical data import. Datadog metrics got centralized configuration with faster previews. Custom BigQuery mappings now support 40+ fields.Split costs by actual usage — allocate shared costs based on telemetry from Datadog, CSV, Google Sheets, AWS, or CI visibility metrics. Map cost centers to usage metrics with visual previews showing top consumers over time.
May 30 2025
Track Costs Alongside Deployments, Incidents, and Releases
Track deployments, incidents, and releases directly on your cost charts. Events appear as visual markers on timelines, letting you instantly correlate cost spikes with real-world changes. Organize events into BUSINESS, TECHNICAL, and PROVIDER categories with reusable labels across your organization.
May 22 2025
Introducing the Costory Digest
FinOps teams shouldn’t have to dig through dashboards every month to figure out what changed. The Costory Digest does the work for you — it automatically analyzes your cloud costs, identifies the biggest movers, and delivers a clear summary straight to Slack on your schedule.
- Configurable scope — choose the time period, group-by dimensions, and filters to match what matters to your team
- Interactive charts with trend lines that highlight cost movements at a glance
- “Others” rollup so smaller line items don’t clutter the picture
- Drawer view for quick exploration without leaving your workflow
- Scheduled delivery to Slack so your Monday morning standups always start with the full picture