Today, Vantage is announcing updates to the FinOps Agent. Customers can now investigate anomalies in-thread, rate responses in Slack, get more reliable answers, and automate more FinOps workflows.

The Vantage FinOps Agent launched in November 2025 as a way to automate traditionally manual FinOps workflows, such as answering questions on costs, remediating cost recommendations, performing investigations on spend, and more. As adoption has grown, we get consistent feedback about workflows that FinOps practitioners and engineers continually want to offload to AI. Workflows such as investigating anomalies, despite Vantage providing resource-level identification, still required examining previous costs and other attributes within your environment.

Now, users can interact with Slack anomaly alerts and launch a guided investigation that explains the root cause within the thread. This helps customers understand what changed and why without switching back to the Vantage console.

Slack responses also include helpful and not helpful controls. This gives customers a quick way to improve future responses without leaving Slack.

The FinOps Agent now provides more reliable responses by better understanding time periods (for example, "last March"), recognizing the service names customers naturally use (for example, "EC2" instead of an exact Vantage service label), routing product feedback through the built-in feedback flow (for example, when a customer asks for a missing feature), and giving customers more relevant answers about their cloud costs and how to use Vantage.

Beyond cost queries, the FinOps Agent now supports a broader set of operational workflows. It has expanded into a more complete interface for exploring, analyzing, and managing Vantage data. Users can now inspect costs, forecasts, anomalies, recommendations, budgets, dashboards, tags, integrations, teams, and provider resources in much more detail. The Agent also includes more action-oriented capabilities, so users can create and manage things like cost reports, budgets, dashboards, cost alerts, virtual tag configs, and folders, with some support for updating or deleting existing objects.

To get started, enable the FinOps Agent in the Vantage console, then invite @Vantage into a Slack channel. Learn more in the Vantage documentation for the FinOps Agent.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

Vantage is launching a set of FinOps Agent workflow improvements across Slack, including response feedback in Slack, guided anomaly investigation from Slack alerts, and response improvements that make the Agent more reliable in common cases.

2. Who is the customer?

These updates are for existing Vantage customers using the FinOps Agent in Slack who are looking to offload more of their day-to-day cost analysis operations to agentic workflows.

3. How much does this cost?

There is no additional cost for these workflow improvements. Existing FinOps Agent pricing and any charges related to automated remediation or token consumption remain unchanged. To see more details on pricing, please refer to the Pricing page.

4. How do I rate responses in Slack?

Ask a question in Slack by tagging @Vantage. You'll see a thumbs up (good response) or thumbs down (bad response) icon on the final response. Select one of these options to share your feedback with the Vantage team. This helps make future answers more relevant and accurate to customer needs and does not notify your teammates.

5. How does anomaly investigation work in Slack?

When a cost anomaly alert is sent to Slack and the FinOps Agent is enabled, the alert includes an Investigate Anomaly button. Click it to start a multi-step analysis directly in the thread: the Agent fetches the anomaly metadata, gathers supporting Cost Report and resource context, queries daily costs around the anomaly date, and returns a structured summary of what changed, when, which resources were involved, and the report scope. For more details, see the Investigate Cost Anomalies documentation.

6. What response improvements were made?

The Agent now understands dates in the form of phrases like "last March," recognizes familiar service names like "EC2" rather than requiring the full service label, and routes product feedback or feature requests directly to the Vantage team instead of sending you elsewhere.

7. What happens if the FinOps Agent is not enabled when a Slack anomaly alert is sent?

You'll still see the Slack alert, but the anomaly investigation workflow won't be available. The message will prompt you to enable the FinOps Agent so you can use investigation capabilities the next time an anomaly is detected.

8. Do I need to do anything to enable helpful or not helpful reactions in Slack?

No additional setup is required beyond using the FinOps Agent in Slack. The feedback controls appear on final Slack responses where the FinOps Agent returns an answer. You do not need to configure a separate setting for this feature.

9. Where do I go to get started?

For Slack-based FinOps Agent workflows, go to FinOps Agent settings and complete the onboarding workflow.