Managing cloud, AI, and SaaS costs means answering a steady stream of questions from finance, leadership, and engineering teams. What changed? Which team owns the spend? Was an increase expected? Are we still on track against the budget? When each answer requires moving between dashboards, filtering cost data by team or service, or manually correlating billing data with observability data, it can slow down investigations while costs continue to rise.
The Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat brings Cloud Cost Management analysis into a conversational workflow. You can ask cost questions in plain language, investigate cost anomalies, and get answers grounded in both cost and observability data within minutes. In this post, we’ll show how you can:
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Ask Bits Chat anything about your costs
The Cloud Cost skill gives FinOps practitioners and engineers one place to ask cost questions without needing to know which dashboard to open or how to construct a query. You can get started with Bits Chat in the Datadog navigation bar, or you can start an investigation directly from a cost anomaly. From there, Bits Chat analyzes the relevant cost data and responds with a concise summary, then asks what you want to explore next.
