Capabilities and Examples

Learn more about the exact tooling and capabilities of North Agent.

What North Agent Can Do

North Agent provides comprehensive FinOps capabilities across all major areas of cloud financial management. The Agent can access and analyze data from every North feature, plus perform advanced queries against your raw billing data.

Cost Visibility & Analysis

Cost Explorer Integration

• Analyze spending trends across services, regions, and time periods

• Compare costs between different date ranges

• Break down costs by any dimension (service, region, usage type, and more)

• Filter and drill down into specific cost categories

• Generate insights on spending patterns and trends

Example Capabilities:

• "Show me EC2 costs by region for the last 3 months"

• "What's our spending trend for RDS this quarter?"

• "Compare our AWS costs between Q3 and Q4"

Infrastructure Optimization

Reshaping Recommendations

• Access ML-driven right-sizing recommendations for EC2, EBS, ECS, Lambda, and Auto Scaling Groups

• Review optimization opportunities with estimated savings

• Understand migration complexity and performance implications

• Get service-specific reshaping summaries and detailed recommendations

Example Capabilities:

• "What reshaping opportunities do we have?"

• "Show me EC2 instances that can be downsized"

• "What are our top EBS optimization opportunities?"

Anomaly Detection

Cost Anomaly Analysis

• Identify unexpected cost spikes and unusual spending patterns

• Review resource-level and usage-type anomalies

• Understand cost impact and severity of detected anomalies

• Get context on anomalies with historical patterns

Example Capabilities:

• "Show me anomalies costing more than $1,000"

• "What services had cost spikes this week?"

• "Are there any sudden changes in our Lambda spending?"

Cost Allocation & Chargeback

Cost Streams

• List and explore your cost allocation views

• Query cost stream data with custom filters

• Understand how costs are allocated across business units

• Analyze spending by tags, services, and custom dimensions

Example Capabilities:

• "What cost streams do I have configured?"

• "Show me costs allocated to the engineering team"

• "What's our spending breakdown by environment?"

Commitment Management

Reservations & Savings Plans

• View reservation coverage and utilization

• Analyze reservation health and optimization opportunities

• Review savings pod metrics and ledger entries

• Understand commitment coverage across your organization

Example Capabilities:

• "What's our current reservation coverage?"

• "Show me underutilized reservations"

• "What are our savings pod metrics for this month?"

GCP Commitments

• Access GCP committed use discounts (CUD) data

• Review GCP savings opportunities

• Analyze commitment utilization and health

Budget Management

Budget Tracking

• Review budget status and health

• Understand budget vs. actual spending

• Get alerts on budget thresholds and overruns

• Analyze budget performance across accounts and business units

Example Capabilities:

• "What's our budget status for this month?"

• "Are any budgets at risk of exceeding limits?"

• "Show me budget performance for this account"

Sustainability & GreenOps

Carbon Footprint Analysis

• Access GreenOps carbon emissions data

• Review water and power usage estimates

• Understand carbon intensity by service and region

• Get guidance on carbon offset requirements

Example Capabilities:

• "What's our carbon footprint this month?"

• "Which services have the highest carbon intensity?"

• "Show me our GreenOps dashboard data"

FinOps Maturity

FinOps Score

• Access your FinOps maturity score

• Understand strengths and areas for improvement

• Track FinOps maturity over time

Account KPIs

• Review key performance indicators for your account

• Understand cost efficiency metrics

• Track important FinOps metrics

Advanced Data Querying

CUR Data Queries

• Execute sophisticated SQL queries against your Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data

• Perform custom analysis with flexible filtering, grouping, and aggregations

• Access raw billing data for deep-dive investigations

• Query both AWS and GCP billing exports stored in Athena

Example Capabilities:

• "Query our CUR data to find all EC2 instances running in us-east-1 with costs over $100"

• "Show me daily cost trends for S3 storage by storage class"

• "What are our top 10 most expensive resources this month?"

CUR Schema Information

• Discover available columns and data types in your CUR

• Understand billing data structure and relationships

• Get metadata about your billing exports

Documentation & Knowledge

North Documentation Search

• Search North's product documentation for answers about features and capabilities

• Get information about IAM permissions, onboarding, and configuration

• Access legal documents including Terms of Service

• Find answers about North features, pricing, and policies

Cloud Provider Knowledge

• Search AWS documentation for cloud service information

• Search GCP documentation for Google Cloud Platform details

• Get answers about cloud services, best practices, and configurations

Example Capabilities:

• "How do I set up SSO for my account?"

• "What permissions are required for AWS onboarding?"

• "What are the best practices for cost allocation?"

Multi-Cloud Support

North Agent supports both AWS and GCP, but works with one account at a time:

• AWS: Full access to all AWS-specific features including EC2 reshaping, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and AWS-specific cost analysis when viewing an AWS account

• GCP: Access to GCP cost data, committed use discounts, GCP savings opportunities, and GCP-specific analysis when viewing a GCP project

• Unified Interface: Ask questions about either cloud provider using the same natural language interface

• Account-Scoped: The Agent automatically scopes to the account you're currently viewing in the application—switch accounts in the app to analyze a different account ...

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