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Ask Koala AI is the fastest way to answer a cost question. Type it in plain language on the Chat page and get back an answer with the charts and totals to match — in seconds, no query writing required.

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What you can ask

Questions about cost and usage across your clouds — for example:
  • “What was our daily spend last month? Show it as a bar chart.”
  • “Top 5 services by cost this quarter, by provider.”
  • “How much did the payments application cost in June?”
  • “Which regions grew the most month over month?”

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How it answers

Koala’s chat is an agent that turns your question into a real query and runs it:
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Understand

It classifies your intent and pulls out the time window and dimensions you asked about.
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Ask if unclear

If a question is ambiguous, it asks a clarifying question rather than guessing.
3

Query and answer

It compiles and runs SQL over your ingested data, then formats the result as a readable answer with a chart and totals.
As with insights, the numbers come from SQL, never from the model — the AI phrases the answer, the query provides the figures. See The evidence principle.
You can also ask Koala what it can do or what data it has, and it will answer from its own capabilities and schema.

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Quick prompts, follow-ups, and memory

  • Quick prompts get you started with one click — for example “Show me my top 5 most expensive services,” “Show me optimization opportunities this month,” “Spend trend for the last 30 days,” or “Quick wins.”
  • After each answer, Koala suggests follow-up questions to keep the thread going.
  • A chat remembers its session context so you can refer back to earlier turns; New chat clears it and starts fresh.
Chat needs an AI provider configured. If none is set — or a plan’s token cap is reached — Koala prompts you to set one up in Settings → AI Providers. See The AI engine.

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Next steps

The AI engine

Which model powers chat, and the evidence guardrail.

Insights

The findings Koala surfaces without being asked.