Effective cloud cost management in a centralized place across providers is crucial for driving business value while ensuring financial responsibility. Most customers have workloads running in multiple clouds, making centralized cost management a challenge. 

Today, we’re excited to announce a new integration between OCI and Datadog Cloud Cost Management (CCM)! Datadog provides a unified cost observability platform for Engineering and FinOps teams, now enabling OCI customers to access the same capabilities for daily cost visibility, allocation, and optimization that they already rely on for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
 

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A Powerful Partnership: OCI + Datadog

Datadog Cloud Cost Management unifies engineers and FinOps practitioners in a single platform for cost observability. By integrating OCI cost and performance data, engineers can make informed decisions on cost optimization, and FinOps practitioners gain the context they need to collaborate effectively, eliminating barriers to workload optimization and waste reduction.

How It Works

OCI customers connect their parent OCI Tenancy to Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring and then enable Datadog Cloud Cost Management. The integration securely ingests OCI billing and usage data so you can immediately start visualizing and analyzing costs in real time.

Key FinOps Capabilities

  • Ingest OCI Data –  Using Datadog OCI QuickStart’s fully managed experience, all the necessary infrastructure for forwarding metrics, logs, and resource data to Datadog are instantly configured with just a few clicks:
  • Streamline Multi-Cloud Reporting & Analytics: OCI cost and usage data is ingested daily enabling users to View OCI spend alongside AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as SaaS costs like Databricks and Snowflake, for a consolidated multi-cloud financial picture. CCM’s visualization capabilities are extremely flexible enabling you to report and analyze data in the format that matches with your needs.
  • Improve Cost Allocation Coverage & Accuracy: By default, you can break down data by service, compartment, and tag. Tag Pipelines ensure accurate allocation of all costs by eliminating issues with missing/inaccurate tags and case sensitivity. Custom Allocation Rules unlock granular container cost allocation, including GPU, data transfer, and network costs.
  • Optimize AI Workloads – You’ve already optimized your GPU unit price by selecting OCI. Minimize idle cost of expensive GPUs by using  GPU Monitoring for fleet health and utilization, enabling teams to quickly:
    • Troubleshoot failures
    • Avoid over-provisioning 
    • Reduce idle GPU spend
  • Identify usage optimization opportunities: Making right sizing recommendations has never been easier for a FinOps Practitioner. In addition to cost data, CCM ingests resource utilization data and displays both together highlighting rightsizing opportunities. Using Notebooks, FinOps practitioner collaboration with engineering has never been easier. Practitioners share workload-specific savings opportunity observations and the raw data with engineers expediting implementation.
  • Prevent Cost Surprises with Cost Anomaly Detection: Find unexpected spending events before it’s too late to take action.  CCM provides Cost monitors continuously analyze cost data notifying your team immediately on your channel of choice ( Slack and PagerDuty) of abnormal spend patterns so you can mitigate any negative cost impacts.
  • Budget without boundary: Multi-provider budgets and forecasts simplifies monitoring and controlling costs of OCI workloads spanning multiple cloud providers (Database@Azure, Database@AWS, and/or Database@Google Cloud).  

Get Started Today!

With OCI support, Datadog Cloud Cost Management now extends cost visibility across even more environments. Teams can see costs earlier, understand impact faster, and take action before waste builds up.

Connect to your OCI Tenancy today within minutes using OCI QuickStart to immediately reap the benefits of this exciting partnership.

We only scratched the surface of the value Datadog Cloud Cost Management (CCM) has to offer. To learn more, visit the Datadog CCM documentation. If you’re new to Datadog you can start with a  14-day free trial.