Merge pull request #216 from vantage-sh/december-changelog

Add December changelog

docs/changelog.md

@@ -12,7 +12,25 @@ image: /img/product_changelog.jpg
 
 # Changelog
 
-_This page was last updated on December 2, 2024, with product updates for November 2024._
+_This page was last updated on December 20, 2024, with product updates for December 2024._
+
+## December 2024
+
+### Product Updates
+
+- **Explore menu:** The new **Explore** menu, on the top right of the console, allows you to perform quick actions, like view recent reports, view starred reports, and create new reports—all from one menu.
+- **Customized Dashboards:** Vantage now supports the ability to move around the widget order on [Dashboards](/dashboards), change between chart and table widget types, and rename widgets directly from the Dashboard.
+- **Hierarchical Budgets:** [Hierarchical Budgets](/budgets) are available to help you match your budgets to your organization's structure. Create parent-child budgeting relationships and hierarchies. 
+- **AWS Model Training SKU Group:** The AWS Model Training SKU Group is added to the [supported custom pricing](/connecting_databricks#custom-pricing) Databricks SKU Groups.
+- **Choose a currency display preference:** If your imported costs are already billed in a currency other than USD, you can enable a [display preference](/vantage_account#currency-conversion). This lets you view your costs with the appropriate currency symbol—without using Vantage's currency conversion rates. 
+
+### Kubernetes Agent Updates
+
+_See [September's update](/changelog#k8s-sept-24) for the most recent Kubernetes agent release._
+
+### API Updates
+
+- **Dashboards endpoint:** The `widget_tokens` parameter of the `/dashboards` [endpoint](https://vantage.readme.io/reference/createdashboard) now supports `CostReport`, `ResourceReport`, `KubernetesEfficiencyReport`, and `FinancialCommitmentReport` tokens.
 
 ## November 2024
 

docs/usage_based_reporting.md

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ keywords:
 
 # Usage-Based Reporting
 
+:::tip
+To get started with Usage-Basesd Reports, you can also watch a video demo on [Vantage University](/vantage_university_cost_reporting) 🎓.
+:::
+
 Usage-Based Reporting provides infrastructure consumption in non-monetary metrics, such as virtual machine running hours, stored gigabytes of data, and read/write units consumed. These reports are available within [Cost Reports](/cost_reports), where you can toggle between viewing consumption by spend or by usage.
 
 :::note
@@ -109,11 +113,3 @@ In the table below the graph, usage data is displayed in GB-Months for subcatego
 - **TimedStorage-ByteHrs** (Standard Tier)
 
 These metrics provide an overview of how data is distributed across different S3 storage tiers. Next steps could include analyzing whether data in the **Infrequent Access** and **Intelligent Tiering** categories is optimally stored, or you could decide whether more aggressive lifecycle policies are needed to move infrequently accessed data to cheaper storage tiers, like Glacier. You could also use this usage information to identify potential cost savings by reducing the storage volume in higher-cost tiers, such as the **Standard Tier**.
-
-## Usage-Based Reporting Video Demonstration
-
-The below video talks about how to get started with Usage-Based Reporting.
-
-<div style={{ position: 'relative', paddingBottom: '56.25%', height: 0 }}>
-    <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-1pqTMffrI?si=4S_MJzWRL-jFWj6r?rel=0&color=white&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen="true" style={{ position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, width: '100%', height: '100%', borderRadius: '10px' }}></iframe>
-</div><br/>

docs/vantage_university_cost_reporting.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Cost Reports are helpful for any FinOps stakeholder—from engineering managers
 ## 📚 Lesson 1: Create and View a Cost Report
 
 <div style={{ position: 'relative', paddingBottom: '56.25%', height: 0 }}>
-    <iframe src="https://www.loom.com/embed/bdbbc49ee99944c38bce3423d2705d17?sid=c0a71a01-5648-4fdf-b437-91051704086b" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen="true" style={{ position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, width: '100%', height: '100%', borderRadius: '10px' }}></iframe>
+    <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pr9cOE18mPI?si=_dcUSwoLo1bkCigN?si=O-RWI8KR_0_WUzch?rel=0&color=white&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen="true" style={{ position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, width: '100%', height: '100%', borderRadius: '10px' }}></iframe>
 </div><br/>
 
 ---
@@ -73,15 +73,23 @@ Cost Reports are helpful for any FinOps stakeholder—from engineering managers
 
 ---
 
-## 📚 Lesson 6: View and Manage Dashboards
+## 📚 Lesson 6: Create Usage-Based Reports
+
+<div style={{ position: 'relative', paddingBottom: '56.25%', height: 0 }}>
+    <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-1pqTMffrI?si=4S_MJzWRL-jFWj6r?rel=0&color=white&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen="true" style={{ position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, width: '100%', height: '100%', borderRadius: '10px' }}></iframe>
+</div><br/>
+
+---
+
+## 📚 Lesson 7: View and Manage Dashboards
 
 <div style={{ position: 'relative', paddingBottom: '56.25%', height: 0 }}>
     <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qWDsgh1jfGc?si=_dcUSwoLo1bkCigN?si=O-RWI8KR_0_WUzch?rel=0&color=white&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen="true" style={{ position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, width: '100%', height: '100%', borderRadius: '10px' }}></iframe>
 </div><br/>
 
 ---
 
-## 📚 Lesson 7: Create Vantage Issues
+## 📚 Lesson 8: Create Vantage Issues
 
 <div style={{ position: 'relative', paddingBottom: '56.25%', height: 0 }}>
     <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8uXySGPZslQ?si=O-RWI8KR_0_WUzch?rel=0&color=white&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen="true" style={{ position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, width: '100%', height: '100%', borderRadius: '10px' }}></iframe>
@@ -97,5 +105,6 @@ Cost Reports are helpful for any FinOps stakeholder—from engineering managers
 - [View Forecasts](/forecasting)
 - [Cost Report Notifications: Set Up Teams and Slack](/report_notifications#slack)
 - [Add Annotations](/annotations)
+- [Usage-Based Reports](/usage_based_reporting)
 - [Dashboards](/dashboards)
 - [Create Vantage Issues](/issues)