Nuvola Analytics Platform - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Rightsizing and optimization feature that monitors all resource cross-cloud is one of the great instruments of cost reduction. Additionally, RI Wizard in Nuvola Analytics helps our customers plan reservation capacity and achieve maximum savings with minimum risks. Advanced BI style reporting module is a great support for analysts to discover additional spots for cost reduction. Centralized budget management is a helping hand for those who want to compare actual costs with budget. Predictive analytics and alerting service will warn you about undesirable cost increase, budget limit excess and other upcoming issues.
Nuvola Analytics has an amazing option to bring in unlimited number of hierarchies with boundless levels within defined hierarchies. Our customers can monitor costs, budgets and resources from different perspectives. For example, cost center view might be interesting for finance team, project view – for DevOps, business unit view – for management, etc.
Virtual tags are also a great tool that enriches customer data and opens additional horizons for data exploration. Nuvola Analytics supports account and resource level tags. One of the favorite dimensions of our clients is resource and project OWNERS tracking, which is possible and actionable with the use of virtual tags.
Reserve Capacity Planning Wizard in Nuvola Analytics helps our customers plan reservation capacity and achieve maximum savings with minimum risks. Plan your reservation purchases based on your current portfolio. If the customer has already purchased reservations, RI Wizard will help to improve the current portfolio based on a massive list of parameters the user can select to model optimization scenarios. If there are no RIs purchased yet, it is not a problem also, Nuvola Analytics is going to advise the best options.
Centralized budget management is a helping hand for those who want to control the budget in the context of complex organization. Budget control gives you confidence that you do not run out of budget. Nuvola Analytics’ algorithm, based on predictive analytics and AI, will warn you in advance if there are any anomalies coming up.
Compared to most of the tools in the market, Nuvola Analytics is truly multi cloud. Data normalization can be a challenging task for multi-cloud tools, as billing data from different service providers varies and changes. However, Nuvola Analytics knows how to resolve this problem through normalized data. Loading the data from various resources is not enough, there’s a need for data normalization and interpretation for the outcome to become multicloud indeed. Unique cross-cloud service classification helps our customers explore the data from different service providers and get consolidated view.
Yes, there are and these recommendations are easy to access and understand. Right-sizing and optimization module is one of the greatest tools of cost reduction. It monitors all resource cross-cloud and tracks all inefficiently used resources from different service providers in one place. No need to create complicated reports and try to catch underutilized resources in multiple portals/consoles. Nuvola Analytics has already aggregated and classified resources that should be optimized.
Advanced BI style reporting module is a great support for analysts to discover additional spots for cost reduction. Dive deeply into the data, slice and dice the data, drill down the reports to get the visibility you need in a couple of mouse clicks. Advanced BI-style reporting is a perfect tool for high level analysis as well as deep analytics.
Nuvola Analytics designs features taking into account diversity of CSP’s such as AWS, Azure, GCP and etc. to avoids being oriented on a single cloud provider. We keep an equal focus on all service providers. What can be done for one cloud provider in Nuvola Analyics is also done for another. Optimization and reservation capacity modules are oriented on different services providers. BI style reporting is designed for advanced as well as simple analytics where the user can reach out to all the data onboarded to Nuvola Analytics.
Hierarchies are integrated with all main features of Nuvola Analytics. Our customers can monitor costs, budgets and resources from different standpoints. For example, cost center view might be interesting for the finance team, project view – for DevOps, business unit view – for management, etc.
The answer is yes, moreover, gaps can be fulfilled without big efforts. Virtual tags are a great tool that enriches customer data and opens additional horizons for data exploration. Add more analytical dimensions, more attributes, more possibilities for data exploration without managing tags within your CSP infrastructure, no more dependency on release cycle or DevOps engineers to tag resources or correct errors. FinOps teams can take tagging in their own hands. Nuvola Analytics supports account and resource level tags. One of the favorite dimensions of our clients is resource and project OWNERS tracking, which is possible and actionable with the use of virtual tags.
Each team should know which resources it owns and how they can be optimised. Nuvola Analytic’s Optimizer is not just a list of recommendations for underutilized resources. You can easily find ineffectively used resources within your team, project, environment or any other level. Even more details about resources can be explored in Cost Analysis section (BI-style advanced reporting).
Nuvola Analytics has virtual tags feature that allows customers avoid tagging of each and every resource in different consoles/portals. No need to distract engineers to ask them to improve tagging. Tagging is a great tool for cost allocation, however, following tagging standards and managing all tags can be a challenge. Use Nuvola Analytics’ virtual tags instead to fulfill the gaps in tagging. No coding skills required.
Alerting service that uses predictive analytics and AI will be tracking different anomalies. This service is flexible and the users can customize different types of alerts. At the same time, Nuvola Analytics does not send endless amounts of notifications that can distract users from important tasks, that is why the user has an opportunity to create the alerts that are important indeed or send a request to Nuvola Analytics team with the list of necessary alerts. Alerts can be sent in advance or at the time the anomaly takes place, alert configuration is flexible.
Budget Management is also integrated with alerts. So, our users are informed in advance if budget limits are about to be crossed. The great thing is that alerts can be configured differently: it is possible to fill in a particular sum that should not be exceeded, the share of costs or budget, percentage of costs to budget or vice versa, average costs or budget, etc. Our users can customize alerts that compare different time periods. Additionally, our users choose when they want to be informed about the problem (days, weeks or months before or exactly at the moment the budgets are exceeded).
Alerting service in Nuvola Analytics is very powerful and flexible. Any measure in Nuvola Analytics (not only Cost and Budget) can be used for alert configuration. On top of that, our users can even compare measures for the different periods and receive alerts about anomalies.
For example, you might want to know whether the usage amount of a particular service for the current month is about to exceed the usage amount for the previous month.
Alerts in Nuvola Analytics use Predictive Analytics and AI and they are highly customizable. Alerts can be received in advance before the undesirable event takes place (date frame can be any, the client chooses it) or at the moment the anomaly happens.
No engineering skills for alert customization are required. We provide a clear interface to our users with predefined options. Customization is necessary for the system to understand what kind of anomaly our client is trying to identify. The rest will be done by Nuvola Analytics’ predictive analytics and AI algorithms and the customer will receive an alert per email, so there is no need to log into the platform to see the updates. Alert configuration is also important because Nuvola Analytics avoids overloading the customer with the huge amount of notifications that might not be valuable for our users.
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