Welcome to the January 2026 edition of our monthly FinOps feature roundup. Each month, we highlight a selection of the latest Ternary innovations designed to help you drive accountability and maximize technology spend efficiency.
In December, we introduced Bring Your Own Data integration, a new report type, and enhancements to cost reallocation rules. Our January 2026 FinOps roundup highlights enhancements to budgets and reports, support for Databricks, and multi-channel Slack notifications.
Read on to learn more about our latest Ternary enhancements.
Enhanced budget management with advanced cost controls
We continue to make meaningful improvements to budget management in Ternary, giving you more control and context when planning and tracking spend across your organization. In January, we introduced several updates that make budgets easier to model, faster to configure, and better aligned with your actual cost behavior.
Variable monthly budgets
You can now define budgets month by month instead of relying on a flat allocation across an entire period. This makes it easier to plan for seasonality, anticipated growth, or planned initiatives without forcing spend into an artificial average.
Percentage-based increases
Percentage-based increases let you apply consistent changes automatically across monthly budgets. This simplifies modeling expected growth or cost inflation over time and reduces the need for manual adjustments.
Historical spend autofill
Budget creation is now faster and more informed. Ternary can pre-fill monthly budget values using your historical spend, saving time and grounding plans in actual trends.
Spend trend preview
An in-line spend trend preview shows past spending patterns as you configure budgets. You can see what’s happened before and plan what comes next without switching views or exporting data.
Expanded dimension support
Budgets now support cloud provider–specific (non-FOCUS) dimensions, allowing you to align financial controls with native AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud billing attributes.
Together, these enhancements give you more precision and insight when managing budgets.
More interactive and flexible Ternary Reports
We’ve introduced several enhancements to improve how you interact with data in Ternary Reports. These updates help you explore data more easily, focus on what matters, and control how and when reports update as you analyze results.
Interactive table filters
You can now interact directly with reports by clicking on table cells, chart segments, legend items, or dimension labels. Each selection instantly updates the chart and configuration panel, clearly showing what’s included. This makes it simple to isolate drivers, investigate anomalies, and validate assumptions without rebuilding reports.
Comfortable and compact display modes
Report tables are now easier to tailor to your preferred layout. You can switch between Comfortable (default) and Compact table views depending on whether you prioritize readability or data density, and your preference carries across reports.
Auto-run toggle for reports
Lastly, report execution is now more intentional. Reports no longer auto-run by default when variable inputs change. You can manually run a report when you’re ready or enable auto-run for dynamic exploration, with your preference saved per report.
Together, these improvements help teams spend less time managing reports and more time understanding what’s driving cost and usage.
Support for Databricks
Databricks usage and costs are now part of the same reporting experience as the rest of your technology spend. With direct Databricks integration, you can ingest usage and cost data into Ternary and analyze it alongside your cloud infrastructure and other vendors.
This unified view helps FinOps and engineering teams understand total cost drivers across environments, reduce reporting silos, and make optimization decisions with a complete picture of how resources are being used.
Note: Going forward, Ternary will focus on enabling customers to bring third-party data into the platform using our Bring Your Own Data integration capability, rather than building individual native integrations. This gives you more flexibility to ingest and analyze data from the tools that matter most to your organization.
Multi-channel Slack notifications for Ternary Anomaly Detection
Multi-channel Slack notifications make it easier to keep the right teams informed without adding configuration overhead.
You can now send a single anomaly alert to multiple public Slack channels so FinOps, Engineering, and Operations teams see relevant issues directly in the tools they already use. This improves visibility, speeds up response times, and eliminates the need to manage duplicate alerts for different teams.
The Ternary team is here to support your FinOps journey. Thanks for reading our January 2026 FinOps roundup. Stay tuned for next month’s updates!
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