What’s new at Tailwarden: November 2023

Welcome everyone to the November edition of "What's New at Tailwarden." Join us as we delve into our updates, community highlights, and all things Tailwarden. In this edition, you'll discover the exciting new feature launches we've had this month.

Product updates

Komiser

The highlight of the month is the introduction of OVHcloud support. Now, you can track all your OVHcloud infrastructure in a single dashboard, uncovering insights on cost, compliance, and security. Check out this video on integrating an OVHcloud with Komiser:

We’ve also enhanced the UI/UX of our dependency graph feature, allowing you to easily visualize your cloud infrastructure relationships and identify unused and vulnerable resources.

Here’s a video showcasing how the resource dependency graph works:

Tailwarden

We've rolled out fantastic new features and improvements for streamlining your cloud cost and usage management:

• Tailor alerts specifically to your cloud's unique structure. Set up notifications for custom views in your AWS and GCP resources. Get alerted instantly when costs or usage spike, enabling swift action. Custom views act as personal lenses into your cloud's world, fine-tuned for specific applications, teams, or projects.
• Introducing tags audit at the cloud account level. Keep your tagging consistent with regular digests sent directly to your Slack or Email. Maintain an eagle's eye view on your tags coverage, ensuring your resources are always neatly organized and easily accessible.

We’ve also improved the cost explorer experience, providing a comprehensive view of cost insights across your multi-cloud infrastructure in one place. Check out the demo:

We also shipped tons of other bug fixes and performance tuning. See the full changelog.

In the coming weeks, our focus will be on:

• Introducing cost reports for personalized financial team reporting.
• Launching tagging policies for identifying non-compliant cloud resources.
• Integrating AWS Cost Explorer API with Komiser for up to 6 months of cost history insights.

Community news & updates:

Our monthly community call featured updates from November. If you missed it, here's a recap:

Community developer Jake interviewed Mohammed Faisal Hussain, our standout November contributor. Watch their discussion:

We also hosted our 6th contributors' office hours, offering insights into our roadmap and future plans, and providing a sneak peek into our design team's ongoing projects.

Kudos to our community heroes of the month: Pavan, Shobhit, Azan, Aswath, Swammy, Erik, Shubham, Philip, Siddarth, Bishal, Avinesh, Manish, Abhay, Shivam and Kunal for their valuable contributions to Komiser.

In the coming weeks, our focus will be on:

• Producing more hands-on tutorials and guides on how to use Komiser and Tailwarden.
• Developing virtual badges and a leaderboard to encourage contributions to Komiser.

Check out our latest blog posts:

• Mastering Multi-Cloud Management: a Civo Webinar: Explore how Komiser is reshaping open-source cloud management in our summary of the recent Civo webinar we participated in.
• Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring with Daily digests: Effortlessly tackle time-consuming data challenges and streamline cost and tagging collection with daily digests.

And that’s all we have for the November edition. Thanks for reading through. For even more detailed announcements, be sure to check out the release notes and join us on Discord to stay updated on our more frequent updates.