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Creating Budgets and Configuring Alerts

You can set budget thresholds and configure alerts to track your daily, monthly, and quarterly costs. If the actual cost exceeds the configured threshold, you will receive an alert.

Example

Suppose that you want to create a monthly budgeted amount of ¥1,200 for pay-per-use ECSs, and to receive an alert if the actual amount exceeds 80% of the budgeted amount.

Step 1: Creating a Budget

Currently, Cost Center only helps you track your original costs.

  1. Log in to Cost Center.
  2. Choose Budgets.
  3. Click Create Budget.
  4. Select Cost budget and click Next.

  5. Configure budget details.

  6. Define the budget scope and click Next.

  7. Set alert thresholds and recipients, and click Next.

  8. Confirm your budget settings and click Save.

Step 2: Viewing Alerts

If your actual cost exceeds the alert threshold (80% of the budgeted amount), an alert is generated. The following two options are available:

  • SMS on the recipient's mobile phone
  • Email in the recipient's mailbox

Upon receiving the alert, you can view your budget details:

Log in to Cost Center. Then, choose Budgets, and click the budget name link to view the budget details.

View cost analysis by performing the following step:

On the View Budget page, click View cost analysis to view the cost analyses of data in the last 12 months.