# Answer any cost question faster with the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat

DevFeed: [Answer any cost question faster with the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/answer-any-cost-question-faster-with-the-cloud-cost-skill-in-bits-chat-2242.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cloud-cost-skill-bits-chat/>)

Author: Dom Nguyen

Published: 2026-07-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [cloud cost management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-cost-management.md>), [finops](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/finops.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/anthropic.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

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## AI overview

This article introduces the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat, a conversational workflow for investigating cloud, SaaS, AI, custom, and Datadog costs. It explains how teams can ask cost questions in plain language, investigate anomalies, identify the teams or services driving spend, compare spending with budgets, and correlate cost changes with observability metrics to support root-cause analysis and optimization.

## Source excerpt

Use the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat to investigate cost anomalies, perform root cause analysis on cost spikes, and get personalized savings.