Walking the Discovery Path to Actionable Anomalies

Built for all anomalies hiding in plain sight

Most FinOps “anomaly detection” tools are really top-level alerting systems. They watch a handful of high-level dimensions—whatever matches your org chart, budget hierarchy, or account structure—and fire only when a threshold is breached. The problem is that real cloud cost shifts often happen below that surface, spread across dimensions, and never become “loud” enough to trigger a blunt, top-line alert.

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The Problem With High-Level Monitoring

Most FinOps tools monitor a single slice of your cloud: an account, a subscription, a service category, a cost center. But because they can’t traverse deeper levels or reconstruct context across dimensions, they miss the “quiet” issues—small changes that compound, propagate, or sit buried inside the long tail of SKUs and resources.

So teams get fewer alerts, but not better ones. And when an alert does fire, it often lacks the context engineers need to trust it.

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The TRU+ Discovery Path: From Surface to Root Cause

TRU+ introduces a Discovery Path: a guided sequence of dimensions that shows exactly where the anomaly was found and how it evolves as you go deeper. This path can be customized to match a customer’s organizational structure and preferences—so the investigation mirrors how your teams actually operate.

Here’s why that matters: at a high level (like ResourceLocation), everything might look normal—health score ~85%, no obvious issue, no alert. But as you move deeper down TRU+’s Discovery Path, the health can drop sharply, revealing the real change at lower dimensions. In other words, TRU+ doesn’t just ask “did spend go up?”—it asks where, why, and through what driver.

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Clearer Anomalies, Cleaner Decisions

Because TRU+ analyzes every dimension in sequence, it can:

• Isolate root cause precisely (down to SKU or resource level when needed)
• Reconstruct full context across dimensions, instead of showing one fragment
• Feed richer AI summaries with causal detail, not generic “cost spike” noise
• Route ownership correctly using Scopes, so the right team gets the right signal

This is how you get fewer “mystery alerts” and more signals engineers actually trust—because the story is complete.

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Loud vs. Meaningful

Others alert on what’s loud, TRU+ finds what actually matters.

The Discovery Path exposes anomalies that were always real—but previously unfindable, because no other tool could see deeply enough or connect the dots across your cloud’s dimensions. With TRU+, anomalies become understandable, actionable, and traceable to the true driver—so teams can move from detection to resolution with confidence.

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