New Features
Support for Bastion in scheduling to scale units up or down outside business hours and cut idle spend Cost Analyzer
Generate Az CLI script for rightsizing to produce a ready-to-run Bash script that applies recommended SKU changes in Azure Cloud Shell Cost Analyzer
Schedule status monitoring to alert when a schedule has been disabled for longer than a configured number of days, so accidentally turned-off schedules are caught before they silently erode savings Cost Analyzer
Explain with AI on group budget to generate a Budget Insights report covering spend trend, threshold health, and improvement recommendations for a cost group Cost Analyzer
Azure Documenter revamped configuration wizard with a redesigned Add and Edit configuration experience — seven steps from Basics to Review — to improve usability when creating and managing document configurations Azure Documenter
Reservation advisor — an AI agent that analyzes a purchased reservation and surfaces renewal guidance, utilization breakdown, break-even analysis, and cost-saving recommendations in a single panel Cost Analyzer
Explain with AI in anomaly detection to generate AI-powered insights on detected cost anomalies directly from the Automatic anomaly detection widget Cost Analyzer
Generate Az CLI cleanup script for Other recommendations of type Savings opportunity and Empty containers to produce a ready-to-run script for removing idle resources from Azure Cloud Shell Cost Analyzer
Schedule impact monitoring to alert when a schedule's actual spend overshoots its pre-schedule baseline, so savings erosion is caught before the end of the billing cycle Cost Analyzer
Collections in Analysis to group analysis views into named containers organized by team, project, or use case, with the ability to set a default collection and switch between them Cost Analyzer
Explain with AI in schedules to evaluate whether a resource is a candidate for scheduling based on its 14-day usage pattern and return a projected savings estimate with a confidence rating Cost Analyzer
Enhancements
Start/stop virtual machines workflow updated with a Power on/off schedule trigger type that handles both shutdown and restart automatically, in addition to the existing Shut down by metrics trigger Cost Analyzer
Multiple dashboards in Cost group overview — cost groups now support multiple named dashboards, with the ability to create additional dashboards and set any one as the default view for the group Cost Analyzer
Include or exclude a resource from profile monitoring using a per-resource Monitor toggle on any mapped profile, giving finer control over which resources are evaluated under a given monitoring profile Business Application
User-defined roles in Business Activity Monitoring now include Business process and Business process group permissions, allowing custom roles to manage these independently of system-defined roles BAM
Anomaly detection now supports alerting only on anomalies classified as true by AI, reducing noise from borderline cost fluctuations that the algorithm flags but the AI considers low-confidence Cost Analyzer