Agent Zone
AI Query
What did each business unit consume this month, by its showback rules?
Answer · illustrative
zones: 6 business units
vms_attributed: 10,240
top_consumer: Finance, $48.2k / month
biggest_change: Finance, +12% vs last month
reports: sent to 6 unit owners
schedule: monthly · one zone per unit Report sentautomated · monthly
In practice
Showback that runs itself
Picture ten thousand virtual machines across six business units. The team defines each unit as an Agent Zone and sets the rules for what belongs to it, such as a naming convention, a cluster or a cloud account. An agent follows each zone, tracks what it consumes, and sends every unit owner a monthly showback report, with no tagging project and no spreadsheets.
What your team can do
- See end of support coming. "Which hosts leave OS support or hardware warranty in the next 12 months?"
- Answer in the meeting. "How many VMs are powered on, by business unit?"
- Find capacity you pay for but don't use. An agent lists idle and oversized capacity every month, on-premises and in the cloud.