Splunking Into the World of Cloud Cost Data

How do you align FinOps with real business outcomes—especially when the data gets messy? In this session, Splunk shares their journey toward tracking cloud gross margin, understanding reporting/KPIs, and navigating the complexities of non-compute costs and inconsistent tagging.We’ll dig into:

• Splunk’s approach to establishing a cost baseline and measuring progress
• How rule-based dimensions helped make sense of massive untagged spend
• Challenges and lessons learned around defining unit economics
• Best practices from Splunk’s cloud gross margin workstream—including a key learning on aligning instance migrations with savings plan analysis

Whether you’re just getting started or fine-tuning your FinOps strategy, this session offers practical takeaways to help you mine for insights and maximize impact.

Speakers

David Owens

FinOps Practitioner at Splunk

Colin Jack

Colin Jack, Principal Solutions Value Advisor, FinOps, at Flexera