Cost Alerts
CloudCheckr's Cost Alerts will automatically notify you of changes in your spend. When triggered, the alerts will notify you via email or other method to help you ensure your costs stay under control.
General Setup
- To get started, navigate to Cost > Alerts > Manager.
- Click + New Alert, then choose an alert type:
- Amazon Web Services Costs or Microsoft Azure Costs
- Amazon Web Services Costs (percent) or Microsoft Azure Costs (percent)
- Amazon Web Services Contract Tracking
- New Tag Values (AWS Only)
- Amazon Web Services Network Usage
- Enterprise Agreement Overage (Azure Only)
- Enter the Alert Name.
- Click Notifications. The Notifications box expands and presents configuration options.
- Enter an email address to get notified by email or for more advanced notification options, use our third party integrations such as Slack, Amazon SNS, PagerDuty.
Alert Setup
- Set the trigger conditions.
- When the cost spikes for N days This is the total number of continuous days in which the cost spikes. To trigger this condition, the cost would have to spike in each of the
- Amount per day This is the actual amount in a day that the cost can spike. When this threshold is reached, the alert is triggered.
- Percent average This is the the cost spike that occurs, expressed as a percentage when compared to a previous period, e.g. a 25% increase compared to the average spend over the past 10 days.
- Compared to the average cost of the previous N days Use this to set your reference period for average cost. We take this average cost per day and compare all the trigger conditions against it to see if an alert should be sent.
- You can set more trigger thresholds if desired.
N
days.When bothAmount per day
andPercent average
are selected as conditions, the first condition to be met will trigger the alert. - Select how you will monitor costs.
- By Account (AWS) or by Subscription (Azure) — the alert will look at all the costs as a whole.
- By Service — the alert will look at costs grouped by service.
- By Specific Tag — the alert will look at costs grouped by a user-defined tag.
- Choose your cost type (AWS only).
- Click Create Alert.
- Set the budget for the billing period.
- Set the trigger for exceed threshold.
- Set the trigger for under threshold.
- Set the budget period.
- Choose filters (optional).
- No Filter (default)
- Filter by tags
- Use a Saved Filter
- Choose accounts (optional ? all by default).
- Click Create Alert.
- Enter the tag key.
- Click Create Alert.
Use this alert to be notified when your data transfer costs exceed a specified amount.
- Set the Usage Type threshold.
Select either Network In or Network Out.
Select agreater than
threshold in bytes. - Set the Service.
- Set the Account.
- Click Create Alert.
Use this alert to be notified before your Enterprise Agreement balance runs out.
- Enter a number to be notified N days before your balance runs out.
- Click Create Alert.
Editing Your Alerts
- Go to Cost > Alerts > Manager.
- Click an alert to edit it. The alert's configuration window opens.
- You can enable/disable an alert via the
slider.
- Click
to delete the alert.
- any of your configured notification methods (Slack, Amazon SNS, etc.).
- the Results screen, located at Cost > Alerts > Results, where you'll find searchable results stored for the life of your CloudCheckr account.
Results
You'll receive triggered alerts through: