Migrate Azure accounts to FOCUS

What is FOCUS?

FOCUS (Financial Operations and Cost Usage System) is a cost export structure designed by the FinOps Foundation to enhance financial transparency and operational efficiency and align the billing export between all the clouds. The FOCUS export is now available for Azure and allows customers to access both Amortized and Unblended cost data within a single export for precise cost management.

Benefits of FOCUS in Anodot

With FOCUS integration in Anodot, you gain several advantages to streamline your cloud cost management:

• New Cost Types: Access both Amortized and Unblended cost data within a single account.

• New Filters: New filters on the Cost and Usage and Assets page for deeper and more complex analysis, such as Charge Category, Publisher Category, Azure Cost Center, and more.
• Enhanced Features: Leverage Anodot’s powerful capabilities with those two cost types, including:
  - Budget definitions.
  - Advanced alerting systems.
  - Kubernetes (K8s) data - soon!

• Simplified Management: Manage your Azure costs more efficiently alongside your other cloud environments and Multicloud analysis across cost types.

   
   

Important Notes Before Performing the Migration

1. Filter Changes: In the FOCUS export, Azure updated the mapping of certain field values, which may affect existing customizations across the platform, such as dashboards (e.g., some 'service' filter values have been added or removed).
2. Migrated Account: Migrate the unblended Azure account if you have both unblended and amortized accounts.
3. K8s Integration: Migration does not include K8s data. If your account uses K8s, do not migrate it. Contact support for guidance- support@anodot.com.
4. Historical Data: Existing historical data in Anodot will remain unchanged (unblended or amortized).
5. Future Data: Data fetched after migration will follow the FOCUS export format.

How to Migrate Your Current Account to FOCUS

Creating FOCUS Export in Azure

1. Log in to the Azure portal.
2. Navigate to the Cost Management + Billing page, and select the Billing Scope you onboarded into Anodot.
3. From the left menu, click on Reporting + analytics > Exports.
4. Click on Create.
5. Click on Create your own export.
6. Select the options as marked below, enter any name you would like for the export name, and click on Add.
   
   
7. Enter any Export prefix, and click on Next.
8. Define the Export destination as follows:
   1. The location should be at the container and storage account where your current billing exports are kept.
      Note: You can see the container name in Anodot- refer to step #4 in the migration process in Anodot.
   2. Enter a new name for the directory that will host your new FOCUS files.
      Note: Save this name as you will have to enter it in Anodot afterward.
   3. Choose format = CSV.
   4. Choose Compression type = none.
      
9. Click on Next, and Create.
10. Check the box next to the export you just created, then click on Run now.
    
    
    
    

Migrate Your Account in Anodot

1. Login into the Anodot platform.
2. Navigate to Account Settings > Cloud Accounts page.
3. Click on the Migration button of your Azure account.
   
   
   
   
4. Enter the new directory value (where your new FOCUS export is located)
   Note: you can verify in the UI the name of your container, to make sure you located the new FOCUS files in that container (and the new directory).
   
   
   
   
5. Click Save.
6. The updated data will be reflected in Anodot after the invoice is processed (occurs automatically every day).

Note:

If you create historical data in the FOCUS export, please inform our support team (support@anodot.com) to ensure it is collected and reflected in Anodot.