Cloud & AI Cost Management

Explore planned Cloud and AI Cost Management capabilities and enhancements.

This page tracks planned capabilities and enhancements for Cloud and AI Cost Management.

Released

What has been released

Cost Visibility

AI-assisted Report creation

AI-powered creation of Perspectives/Views including discovery of relevant cost categories, labels, tags, and rule creation.

Cost Visibility

AI-assisted Unit Costs creation

AI-powered creation of unit cost definitions including discovery of relevant unit metrics.

Cost Visibility

AI-assisted Cost Insights

AI-powered cost insights and analysis on cloud spend, top spenders, trends, etc across cloud and AI spend.

Cost Visibility

AI-assisted Commitment analysis

AI-powered analysis on commitment portfolio, savings, coverage, utilization and optimization opportunities.

Cost Visibility

AI-assisted Cost Categories creation

AI-powered creation of Cost Categories including discovery of relevant labels and tags, and rule creation.

AI Cost Management

AI Traces for Cost Management

Granular AI Traces for cost management at the agent, service, session, model, run and request level.

AI Cost Management

Additional AI Cost Connectors for Cursor, GitHub Co-pilot, Claude Desktop

Additional AI Cost connectors for cost management of Cursor, GitHub Co-pilot, Claude Desktop.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Anomaly FinOps AI Assistant

AI-powered insights to help FinOps teams analyze anomalies and notify the right stakeholders.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Whitelisting of RI, SP, Services for anomalies

Whitelisting of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Services to exclude them while generating anomalies.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Capture Recommendations Savings in Jira and Snow

Capture recommendations savings in Jira and ServiceNow for tracking and reporting.

Commitment Orchestrator

Commitment Orchestrator for RDS GA

General Availability of Commitment Orchestrator for Amazon RDS, enabling better cost-efficiency through commitment management for database services.

Commitment Orchestrator

AWS Savings Plan Database Discovery/Support

Discovery and support for AWS Savings Plans for RDS and ElastiCache databases.

Cost Visibility

CACM Overview Page Revamp

Revamp of the CACM Overview page.

Cost Visibility

Unit Cost Economics

Unit Cost Economics to track cost per outcome and other complex unit cost definitions, including ingestion of custom unit metrics.

Cost Visibility

Data Ingestion Status Update

Introduces a centralized Data Jobs Status section and real-time notifications for active data jobs, third-party outages, and widget-specific alerts across ingestion, Cost Category backfills, PDT updates, and external issues impacting Harness CACM.

AI Cost Management

AI Cost Management

One attribution model for AI costs. Production AI maps to session and interaction, developer AI maps to PR, commit, and ticket, and both roll up into unit costs.

Cost Visibility

Unit Economics

Track cost per customer, transaction, or feature so finance, product, and engineering can tie spend to business outcomes.

Commitment Orchestrator

Commitment Orchestrator Expanded Support

Automatically purchase, renew, exchange, and rebalance RIs and SPs as usage shifts, now with extended support for RDS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Auto-Inference of Savings

Auto-inference of savings (partially realized) in Recommendations.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Budget perspective decouple

Decoupling budget perspectives with cost category support.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

AWS Passthrough recommendations support with Cost Optimization Hub (EC2, EBS, RDS)

Increases the scope of Recommendations across all major AWS resource types, giving you a complete view of savings opportunities in your cloud environment.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Anomaly Lookback Support

[Released: February 2026] Anomaly lookback support to detect anomalies based on historical data.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Anomaly Detection v2 (GA)

[Released: January 2026] Enhanced anomaly detection capabilities with drill-down analysis. Includes support for cost category anomalies, customizable workflows, and preferences for setting percentage deviations and minimum cost thresholds.

AutoStopping

AutoStopping Alerts

[Released: January 2026] Configure notifications for critical events related to your AutoStopping rules.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Auto-Inference of Savings

[Released: December 2025] Auto-inference of savings (fully realized) in Recommendations.

Cluster Orchestrator

Nodepools and Nodeclasses Configuration via Harness UI

[Released: December 2026] UI-based configuration management for Nodepools and Nodeclasses.

Cost Visibility

Cost Category Enhancements

[Released: December 2025] Performance improvements - 2x Query speeds, Support to leverage cost categories across all CACM features: Recommendations, Asset Governance, Budgets

Cluster Orchestrator

Cluster Orchestrator for EKS

[Released: December 2025] Workload-driven intelligent node autoscaling with distributed spot orchestration

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Tags support for Recommendations

[Released: October 2025] Tags are supported for recommendations and filtering is allowed.

Asset Governance

FInOps AI assistant (Beta)

[Released: December 2025] The FinOps AI Assistant leverages generative AI to automate the creation and enforcement of cloud governance policies, enabling faster cloud optimization.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Bulk Management and Filtering in Budgets

[Released: October 2025] Select and modify multiple budgets simultaneously, adjust budget amounts by percentage or fixed value, manage alerts across multiple budgets (add/remove recipients, delete alerts), clone budgets with customizable options for thresholds and recipients

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Ticketing Tool Mapping

[Released: October 2025] Ticketing Tool Mapping for Recommendations

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Budget Folders

[Released: October 2025] Budget Folders to improve usability and streamline budget management. Budgets are now automatically associated with the Perspective folder under which they were created. This provides a consistent folder structure across both Perspectives and Budgets.

Cost Visibility

Dynamic Cost Categories Toggle in Perspectives

[Released: September 2025] Dynamic Cost Categories Toggle in Perspectives

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Jira Status Mapping in Recommendations

[Released: August 2025] Jira Status Mapping in Recommendations

Cluster Orchestrator

Cluster Capacity Limits

[Released: August 2025]For Karpenter Nodepools, users can now set maximum CPU (cores) and memory (bytes) limits as guardrails to prevent uncontrolled cluster scaling.

Asset Governance

Rules Generating Recommendations

[Released: August 2025] Rule and Target Account Exclusions in Governance Recommendations, enabling you to define custom default rules that apply globally or to specific account subsets.

Cost Visibility

Dynamic Perspective Reports

[Released: August 2025]Create reports from your perspectives to bookmark specific filter and grouping configurations. No need to rebuild the same view repeatedly — just save it once and access it anytime.

Commitment Orchestrator

Commitment Orchestrator Inventory

[Released: September 2025] Unified inventory eliminates the need for separate AWS views or manual exports, giving you complete visibility directly inside Harness.

Cluster Orchestrator

Cluster Orchestrator Schedules

[Released: December 2025] Cluster Orchestrator schedules allowing users to define usage windows for shared resources.

Cluster Orchestrator

VPA Support for Cluster Orchestrator

[Released: November 2025] Automatically adjusts the CPU and memory resource requests and limits of containers in pods based on their historical usage

Commitment Orchestrator

RDS (Beta)

Beta release of Commitment Orchestrator for Amazon RDS, enabling better cost-efficiency through commitment management for database services.

Now

Q3 CY'26, Aug 2026 - Oct 2026

Commitment Orchestrator

Set Advance Email Alerts for Expiring RIs and SPs

Sends proactive email alerts when Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) are nearing expiration, so customers can renew or adjust before losing coverage and incurring unexpected on-demand charges.

AutoStopping

Azure & AWS Spot Support in AutoStopping

Adds support for Azure and AWS Spot instances in AutoStopping to optimize cost savings.

Cost Visibility

K8S Data Ingestion (SCAD)

Improves Kubernetes cost data ingestion accuracy and granularity, addressing lost events, node-status discrepancies, and cost visibility for delegate-less K8s clusters.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Data Scope Support Extended to Recommendations, Anomalies & Governance

Extends enterprise Data Scope access controls to Recommendations, Anomalies, and Governance, so restricted users only see recommendations/anomalies within their permitted scope.

Commitment Orchestrator

Cluster & Commitment Integration Enhancements

Improves how Cluster Orchestrator savings and Commitment Orchestrator coverage work together, giving a more complete view of cluster cost savings.

Cost Visibility

Unit Cost Economics Support in Custom Dashboards

Unit cost economics and ingested unit metrics for cost per outcome within Custom Dashboards.

AutoStopping

Enhanced AutoStopping Terraform Support

Enhances Terraform support for configuring AutoStopping via Infrastructure as Code with drift detection.

Commitment Orchestrator

Azure VM Support for Commitment Orchestration

Granular visibility and orchestration of Azure VM committments.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Enhanced Recommendations Experience

Enhanced experience reporting and usability for optimization Recommendations.

Cost Visibility

Shift-left actioning of Recommendations with IaCM Integration

Integration of Infrastructure-as-Code Management (IaCM) to surface resource level recommendations in workspaces and auto apply recommendations at source without drift.

AI Cost Management

User AI Cost Governance

Active governance and enforcement of user-level AI spend with enforcement at the user, provider and model level.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Azure Passthrough recommendations support with Azure Advisor

Support for Azure Passthrough recommendations for: Snapshot to Standard, VM Reserved Instances, Blob Reserved Capacity, Delete Unattached Disks, Files Reserved Capacity.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Anomaly detection integration with JIRA and ServiceNow

First class integration with JIRA and ServiceNow to raise tickets and delegate actioning of detected anomalies.

Commitment Orchestrator

Support RIs for OpenSearch with Commitment Orchestrator

Support RIs for OpenSearch in Commitment Orchestrator.

AI Cost Management

AI Spend Explorer by Users

Breaks down AI spend by individual user, so teams can see who is driving AI cost.

AI Cost Management

AI Spend Explorer by Agents

Breaks down AI spend by agent/model, so teams can see which AI agents are driving cost.

AI Cost Management

AI Spend Capitalization Insights

Surfaces which AI spend can be capitalized vs expensed, helping finance teams with accounting treatment of AI costs.

AI Cost Management

Engineering ROI Intelligence

Connects engineering spend (including AI) to output and business impact, giving a view into engineering return on investment.

Later

Q4 CY'26 and beyond

Commitment Orchestrator

ElastiCache Commitment Support

Commitment Orchestrator can discover and purchase Reserved Instances for ElastiCache usage.

Cluster Orchestrator

Cluster Orchestrator for AKS

Cluster Orchestrator support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including discovery, scale up/down, Spot handling (interruption, fallback, reverse fallback, schedule windows), Karpenter (latest Azure version), Nodepool/Nodeclass setup, and policy-driven automated provisioning and node pool management.

Commitment Orchestrator

Reject Lifecycle for Commitment Orchestrator Recommendation

Lets customers reject/dismiss Commitment Orchestrator recommendations they do not want to act on.

AI Cost Management

AI Cost Optimization Recommendations

Optimization recommendations for AI spend with model routing, context window optimization, prompt caching, etc.

AI Cost Management

Production Agent AI Cost Governance

Active governance and enforcement of production agent AI spend with enforcement at the agent, provider and model level.

AutoStopping

Smart Advisor for Kubernetes Cluster

Smart Advisor helps you uncover cost-saving opportunities by identifying underused cloud resources and recommending the ideal Autostopping configurations.

AutoStopping

Autostopping Global Schedules

Global schedules for Autostopping allowing users to define usage windows for shared resources.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

GCP Passthrough recommendations Support with Google Cloud Recommender

Support for GCP Passthrough recommendations with Google Cloud Recommender to increase the scope of recommendations across all major GCP resource types.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Dynamic Anomaly Detection thresholds

Intelligent threshold setting for anomalies at account and cost category level.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Recommendations OPA Policy - CD integration

Recommendations OPA Policy with CD integration.

BAR (Budgets, Anomalies, Recommendations)

Show impact of applied recommendations using perspectives or reports

Show impact of applied recommendations using perspectives and reports.

AI Cost Management

AI Cost & Performance Benchmarking

Benchmarks AI cost and performance across models/providers to help teams choose the most cost-effective option for their workload.

AI Cost Management

Context-Aware Engineering Governance

Applies governance policies to engineering/AI usage based on context (e.g. project, team, environment) rather than static rules.