Anomaly detection as a feature, according to Walter, can be valuable for agentic workloads because their consumption can increase through loops, retries, or unexpectedly long execution chains that users never see.

“Identifying what is driving a spike shortens the investigation for CIOs and enterprise teams,” Walter added.

The FinOps agent, meanwhile, Jha said, could help CIOs and other business leaders ask questions about AI spending that traditional dashboards were not designed to answer. However, its usefulness will depend on the quality of the underlying cost attribution, as the agent can only explain spending it can accurately associate with particular teams, projects, or workloads, Jha added.