FINOPS · BUDGETS AND ALERTS
Know before the bill does.
Set a monthly budget for each cloud account, see when the month is on track to go over, and get told in email, Slack, Teams or a webhook when spend jumps.
The usual way
The surprise arrives with the invoice.
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Latest completed cost scan · daily costs
Set a monthly amount to see spend against it.
Daily costs appear from the latest completed scan
Projection appears as daily costs arrive.
Budgets and alerts
Auto-create alert rules at
80% at $200.00 · 100% at $250.00
Selected thresholds make alert rules when the budget is saved.
Add a channel here, then choose where a breach goes.
- 01Set a monthly budget
- 02Choose where it goes
- 03Spend, day by day
- 04On track to exceed
- 05Rules made for you
- 06A day that costs too much
- 07Checked every hour
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How it works
Budget, watch, alert
Budget per account
Set a monthly budget in the currency of that account’s own bill. The 80% and 100% alert thresholds are selected by default.
Monthly budget · $250.00 USD from the bill
Alert at 80% · $200.00
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Watch the month
Spend this month sums daily costs from the latest completed scan. A projection shows where the month is heading.
$142.50 so far → $356.25 projected
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Alert where you work
Choose email, Slack, Microsoft Teams or a webhook for breaches. Rules are checked hourly against the latest completed cost reports.
Rules checked hourly.
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Month outlook
Will this month go over?
Try a budget and a month-to-date spend. The projection divides spend by elapsed days and multiplies it by the number of days in the month. It uses the latest completed cost scan; AWS Cost Explorer usually reports a day later.
Projected month end
$142.50 ÷ 12 × 30 = $356.25
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Alert rules
Five kinds of alert
Make a rule with a name, alert type, metric, condition, threshold and notifications. Choose whether it also appears in the in-app feed, then enable it. Switch types to see the metrics each rule can use.
Available metrics
Daily spend · Monthly spend · Latest day against the preceding seven days
Daily spend · Greater than · $50
Notifications · in-app feed · enabled
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Notification channels
Alerts where your team works
Add a channel from the budget form, then choose it for budget breaches. Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and webhooks are supported. A channel can also be the fallback for other notifications. Slack, Teams and webhook URLs are stored encrypted and are never shown again.
Send to an email address.
Add channel from the budget form.
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URL stored encryptedAdd channel from the budget form.
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On the Pro plan
Stay ahead of the bill
Budgets, alerts and anomaly detection are on Pro. See month-to-date spend, its projection and the rules that tell you when costs move.
Budgets
Set a monthly amount for each account in the currency of its bill.
Alerts
Choose thresholds and send notifications to your channels.
Anomaly detection
Spot a latest-day cost spike against the preceding seven days.
AutoStopping
Stop chosen idle compute after its quiet window.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
The currency comes from the account’s own bill, so spend and budget use the same unit.
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