Today, Vantage is launching an update to its Explore Bar, giving users a new way to quickly find and navigate to the reports, pages, and saved objects they use every day. Users can also use quick actions to create new reports or dashboards, access recently viewed reports, and directly access commonly utilized pages, all from the top navigation.

Searching for reports using the Explore Bar

As Vantage customers' FinOps practices have matured, they now manage large volumes of Cost Reports, Dashboards, and other resources across their accounts. Finding the right report or navigating to the correct page often required navigating through many pages, or having to determine which folders reports were stored in. It could often be challenging to quickly access objects when iterating through workflows within the console.

Now, customers can use the Explore Bar as a unified index to search across all of Vantage. They can search for and access pages and core primitives across the platform, including Cost Reports, Dashboards, Budgets, Folders, Saved Recommendation Views, Issues, and other supported objects. The Explore Bar also surfaces recent and starred reports, quick actions such as creating a new Cost Report or Dashboard, and easy access to commonly visited pages such as Recommendations or Financial Planning. This makes it much faster to move between workflows, find saved objects, and take action without navigating through multiple menus.

The Explore Bar is now available to all customers. To get started, open the Explore Bar in the top navigation bar from anywhere in the Vantage console, or using the keyboard shortcut Command/Control + K.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

We are launching an updated Explore Bar in Vantage that allows customers to search across a much broader set of pages and primitives in the product.

2. Who is the customer?

This feature is available to all Vantage customers.

3. How much does this cost?

There is no additional cost to use the Explore Bar.

4. How does it work, or how do I use it?

Users can open the Explore Bar from anywhere in the Vantage console in the top navigation or using a keyboard shortcut (Command + K for Mac, Control + K for Windows). From there, they can:

• Search and navigate to any page in Vantage
• Find saved resources, like Cost Reports and Dashboards
• Access recently viewed or starred items
• Browse a list of commonly viewed pages on Vantage

All results are dynamically tailored to what the user has access to, so navigation and search remain relevant and secure.

5. What saved objects can the Explore Bar search today?

The Explore Bar can search across the following saved object types in Vantage:

• Cost Reports
• Segment Reports
• Dashboards
• Shared Filters
• Folders
• Budgets
• Issues
• Recommendation Views
• Resource Reports
• Network Flow Log Reports
• Kubernetes Efficiency Reports
• Financial Commitment Reports

6. What pages can I access through the Explore Bar?

You can use the Explore Bar to navigate directly to these Vantage pages:

• Overview
• Autopilot
• Recommendations
• Financial Planning
• Budget Alerts
• Budgets
• Settings
• Integrations
• Kubernetes
• Active Resources
• Resource Reports
• Network Flow Reports
• Segments
• Cost Reports
• Dashboards
• Saved Filters
• Created By Me
• Starred By Me
• Recently Viewed
• Teams
• Access Tokens
• Workspaces
• Billing Rules
• Users
• Audit Logs
• Tags
• Account Profile
• Business Metrics
• Commitment Reports
• Commitments
• Issues
• Savings Models
• Cost Alerts

7. How are permissions handled?

Users will only see pages and resources they are authorized to access. Search results are automatically scoped based on user permissions and account configuration.

8. Where do I access the Explore Bar?

The Explore Bar can be opened from anywhere in the Vantage console via a keyboard shortcut or navigation trigger.