Oct 2026 (v15)

🆕 New in October 2026

• 📗 Implementing FinOps guide added an ecosystem page listing independent tools and organizations that build on the FinOps toolkit.
• 🏦 FinOps hubs added a guide to run in a local container, and VNet and private network modes with opt-in NAT Gateway support.
• 🤖 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.
• 🔍 Azure Optimization Engine added a reference for runbooks, schedules, variables, and tables.
• 🌐 Open data added an instance size flexibility dataset that replaces the retired external ISF files.
• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands added Initialize-FinOpsHubLocal to set up a local hub with one command, and Get-FinOpsCommitmentDiscountEligibility and Get-FinOpsInstanceSizeFlexibility for new open data.

ℹ️ Updated

• 📗 Implementing FinOps guide updated guidance to current FinOps Framework capability names and corrected data dictionary descriptions to match FOCUS 1.2.
• 🏦 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.
• 📊 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.
• 🔍 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.
• 📒 FinOps workbooks fixed the savings plan workbook dropping recommendations and the AHB workbook "VM Latest Change Last 7 days" tile returning no rows.
• 🔔 FinOps alerts fixed idle application gateway and idle public IP queries silently dropping results.
• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands fixed Deploy-FinOpsHub failures with certain -Version values, incomplete Get-FinOpsCostExport -RunHistory results, and Start-FinOpsCostExport exporting the wrong period in positive UTC offsets.
• 🌐 Open data corrected instance size flexibility ratios and region coverage.

Thanks to Brian Purchell (@bpurchell), Dan Fiedler (@danfiedler-msft), TakuSe (@TakumiSeo), Hélder Pinto (@helderpinto), Roland Krummenacher (@RolandKrummenacher), Brett Wilson (@MSBrett), and Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) for their contributions!

Thanks to Christopherloof, Haflidi Fridthjofsson (@haflidif), Jacob Struiksma (@JacobStruiksma), josearsa (@josesarsa), sandhyakumili, sharmilamusunuru, and xan-archera for their support!

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