Changelog

What's new in Xplorr

Product updates, new features, and improvements — in reverse chronological order.

Improvement v0.9.1 March 10, 2026

Faster daily billing sync

  • AWS billing data now syncs within 2 hours of daily export availability (down from 6–8 hours)
  • Azure Cost Management API polling improved — reduced rate-limit errors by 94%
  • Added sync status indicator to dashboard header showing last successful sync time
Feature v0.9.0 March 4, 2026

Slack alerts for anomaly detection

  • Connect any Slack workspace and route anomaly alerts to a channel of your choice
  • Alert messages include affected service, spike percentage, estimated monthly impact, and a direct link to the anomaly in Xplorr
  • Per-rule Slack channel routing — route AWS alerts to #aws-costs and Azure alerts to #azure-costs
  • Slack connection uses OAuth — no bot tokens to manage manually
Feature v0.8.5 February 20, 2026

GCP Billing Export support

  • Added Google Cloud Platform as a third supported cloud provider
  • Connects via Service Account with Billing Viewer role — no owner permissions required
  • Supports BigQuery billing export for maximum granularity (SKU-level data)
  • GCP committed use discounts and sustained use discounts now surface in recommendations
Feature v0.8.0 February 10, 2026

Budget alerts & forecasting

  • Set monthly or quarterly budgets per cloud account, per service, or for your whole organisation
  • Automatic alerts at 80% and 100% of budget via email (Slack coming in v0.9)
  • End-of-month spend forecasting using current trajectory — visible from the 1st of the month
  • Budget history: compare actual vs. budgeted spend month over month
Fix v0.7.2 January 28, 2026

Anomaly detection improvements

  • Fixed false-positive alerts triggered by legitimate spikes at month-start for Reserved Instances
  • Improved 7-day rolling average calculation to exclude zero-spend days (prevents alert fatigue on services used intermittently)
  • Alert email now shows the 7-day chart for the affected service so context is immediate
Feature v0.7.0 January 15, 2026

Microsoft Azure support

  • Added Azure as the second supported cloud provider
  • Supports Enterprise Agreement (EA), Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), and Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions
  • Connects via Service Principal with Reader role — no admin permissions required
  • Azure Reservations and Savings Plans now surfaced in the recommendations engine
Feature v0.6.0 December 20, 2025

AI cost insights (beta)

  • Powered by OpenAI — analyses your actual usage patterns and produces specific, natural-language recommendations
  • Recommendations are service-specific: "Your RDS instance in eu-west-1 is 78% idle between 18:00–06:00 UTC"
  • AI insights refresh weekly and are ranked by estimated monthly saving
Feature v0.5.0 December 1, 2025

Private beta launch

  • Launched Xplorr to first cohort of private beta users
  • AWS support via read-only IAM role — connects in under 10 minutes
  • Unified cost dashboard with provider, service, region, and account breakdowns
  • Anomaly detection using 7-day rolling averages with email alerts
  • PDF and Excel report export

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