đ New in October 2026
- đ Implementing FinOps guide added an ecosystem page listing independent tools and organizations that build on the FinOps toolkit.
- đĻ FinOps hubs added a guide to run in a local container, and VNet and private network modes with opt-in NAT Gateway support.
- đ¤ FinOps toolkit agent plugins added a plugin for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI with 5 agents, 4 commands, a FinOps hubs KQL skill, and a scoped, read-only Azure MCP server.
- đ Azure Optimization Engine added a reference for runbooks, schedules, variables, and tables.
- đ Open data added an instance size flexibility dataset that replaces the retired external ISF files.
- đĨī¸ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands added
Initialize-FinOpsHubLocalto set up a local hub with one command, andGet-FinOpsCommitmentDiscountEligibilityandGet-FinOpsInstanceSizeFlexibilityfor new open data.
âšī¸ Updated
- đ Implementing FinOps guide updated guidance to current FinOps Framework capability names and corrected data dictionary descriptions to match FOCUS 1.2.
- đĻ FinOps hubs made queries faster with case-insensitive comparisons, guarded redeploys to not reset data retention settings, fixed commitment purchases inflating savings and effective savings rate, and made various small fixes and improvements.
- đ Power BI reports switched to the new instance size flexibility open data file, batched Azure Resource Graph queries to avoid payload size errors, and made various small fixes and improvements.
- đ Azure Optimization Engine moved Log Analytics ingestion to a Data Collection Rule and Ingestion API, switched to the instance size flexibility open data file, and fixed reservations disappearing from workbooks, the deprecated Classic administrators endpoint, and a Reservations Usage workbook schema regression.
- đ FinOps workbooks fixed the savings plan workbook dropping recommendations and the AHB workbook "VM Latest Change Last 7 days" tile returning no rows.
- đ FinOps alerts fixed idle application gateway and idle public IP queries silently dropping results.
- đĨī¸ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands fixed
Deploy-FinOpsHubfailures with certain-Versionvalues, incompleteGet-FinOpsCostExport -RunHistoryresults, andStart-FinOpsCostExportexporting the wrong period in positive UTC offsets. - đ Open data corrected instance size flexibility ratios and region coverage.
Thanks to @bpurchell, @danfiedler-msft, @TakumiSeo, @helderpinto, @RolandKrummenacher, @MSBrett, and @flanakin for their contributions!
Thanks to @Christopherloof, @haflidif, @JacobStruiksma, @josesarsa, @sandhyakumili, @sharmilamusunuru, and @xan-archera for their support!