🚨Alerts
Alerts are triggered when cloud spend exceeds predefined thresholds or when unusual cost patterns are identified. There are two types of alerts available:
Cost Alerts: Notifies when spending reaches or surpasses set limits.
Anomaly Alerts: Detect and report unusual spending patterns or sudden cost spikes, using advanced algorithms.
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Alerts typically include the following data:
Cost deviation
Indicates the spike or drop in costs
Projects or accounts
Specifies the projects or accounts affected
Resource affected
Identifies the affected services, labels, or SKUs
Percentage change
Shows the percentage increase or decrease in costs
Cost difference
Provides the absolute cost difference
Time period
Defines the time period over which the cost change occurred
Creating an Alert
Navigate to Notifications from the Economize console sidebar, and follow the instructions below:
Enter Details
Alert name: Enter a descriptive name for your alert.
Alert type: Select from Cost Alert or Anomaly Alert as the alert type.
For: Choose what the alert should monitor, i.e., Projects, Services, Labels, or SKUs.
Filter: Define the specific resources within the selected criteria of the "For" field above.
Time Range: Select how often you want to receive alerts, i.e., daily, weekly, or monthly.
Define Scope
Threshold: Set a threshold amount that will trigger the alert.
Ignore spend below (optional): Set a minimum amount to avoid triggering alerts for insignificant or small costs.
Include Credits: Determines whether any applied credits should be factored into cost calculations for alerts.
Include Cost DropS: Choose if you want to be notified of cost decreases as well.
Amortization: Distributes costs evenly across time, rather than recording them only when expenses occur.
Amortization support is available exclusively for AWS alerts alone right now.
Specify Destination
Alerts can be routed to multiple channels or destinations across any supported integration. This makes it easy to deliver them to different teams, projects, or groups, depending on your organizational needs. Simply select the desired destinations and channels from the dropdown menu during configuration.
Destination: Select the workspace tools where you want to receive the budget from the available integrations.
Channel: Select the specific channels within the chosen destinations.
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