Did you know that you can set up notifications to alert you if your expenses deviate significantly from the usual amount?
A cost anomaly alert is an option to notify you when your cost behaves unpredictably. We aim to enhance the clarity and usefulness of cost anomaly notifications for our customers.
To achieve this, we included detailed information about the specific resources that contributed to the anomaly (See the example image below). These details will include the resource ID, region, consumption for the previous business day, consumption on the day the anomaly was detected, and the delta between these consumption values (both numeric and percentage).
The notifications are highlighted in the top three resources with the most significant deltas for each affected service. This additional information will be provided via email, on-site and Slack notifications. The cost anomaly check executes every 6 hours as scheduled by the UTC+0 time zone. You can set up the notifications you receive according to your personal needs.
How to set up an anomaly detection alert
To set up anomalies, you need to be the owner or administrator of the organization
Step 1
Look at the menu in the left corner, then find Organization settings and click on it.
Step 2
You see the “My Organization page” and now you need to click on the heading Notification Settings.
Step 3
On the notifications settings page, you can set a percentage and/or price, and when your spending reaches this value, you will receive a notification.
Let's have a closer look at how it works:
In the “consumption increased by %” field, you can enter a percentage value.
For example, let's set 10%, select the ‘or’ value, set the value $1000 in the “consumption increased by $” and click the ‘Update’ button. So, you will receive an email, slack, and website notification (depending on your current settings, the default is website and email) when your current expenses change by 10% (or more) or $1000(or more). That is when one of the conditions is met. Anomalies will be detected based on daily consumption.
You can also select ‘and’, which means that you will be notified only when the expenditure exceeds the specified dollar amount and percentage.
