The hallmark of any effective FinOps or cloud management practice is the ability to not only detect and visualize savings and governance opportunities – rightsizing, anomaly and waste detection, storage optimization, etc. – but to take action and report on those opportunities.

DoiT Threads enables FinOps practitioners to do just that by connecting DoiT Cloud Navigator to their in-house project management and ITSM systems like Jira. With this integration in place, users can quickly and easily create, manage, and track projects based on the recommendations that Cloud Navigator provides.

By enabling users to create Jira tickets directly from the DoiT Console, Threads not only makes it easier to take action on optimization or governance recommendations, but it also drives accountability among engineering teams and encourages them to take greater ownership of the costs associated with the workloads that they spin up.

For example, now when a user opens up a savings recommendation in DoiT Insights, they can easily create and assign a new task within Jira all in a single screen, without ever having to leave their existing browser tab. Once it’s created, the thread provides critical information to help track the progress of the issue, including due dates, assignees, statuses, etc.

Enabling critical FinOps initiatives

According to the 2024 State of FinOps by FinOps Foundation, reducing waste or unused resources was the most common initiative cited as a key priority among cloud-driven organizations. A bit further down the list of most common priorities (but the number one answer in multiple previous years) was empowering engineers to take action, as well as driving organizational adoption of FinOps.

Threads can help drive all three of these key initiatives by enabling practitioners to create engineering tasks from several of Cloud Navigator’s most powerful optimization and governance features:

• Taking necessary action to realize cost optimization recommendations from DoiT Insights
• Investigating and resolving unexpected cost spikes as surfaced by Anomaly Detection and Alerts
• Ensuring adherence to Budgets when spend thresholds are reached

In addition to the ability to assign ownership and track progress of each engineering item, the Threads dashboard (below) also makes it much easier for non-technical users like finance and executive teams – who may not even have a Jira login – to monitor any ongoing efforts by breaking down the different initiatives into simple and easily understood tasks. 

By logging into Cloud Navigator, these individuals can get a quick overview of all of the optimization efforts that are in progress and have already been completed, as well as the savings potential of those that have yet to get underway.

To get a better understanding of how Threads works within both Cloud Navigator and Jira, click on the image below to take an interactive tour, or reach out to a DoiT expert.