Important Notes

Budget alerts will not be generated for services settled on a monthly basis (such as the 95th percentile bandwidth billing for CDN).

You can create a maximum of 50 expenditure budgets.

Creating a Budget

Example: A customer wants to create an expenditure budget starting from November 2020. The customer needs to make a continuous budget for products with service type ECS, VPC, or EVS, where the region is CN North-Beijing1 and the amount is the net amount. The budget amount is ¥100. When the net amount reaches 80% of the budget amount, a budget alert is sent.

1. Go to the Expenditure Budget page.
2. Click Create Budget.
3. Setting the basic information and budget scope, and click Next.

   

   Table 1 Parameters of a budget (I)

   Parameter	Description
   Budget Name	Name of a budget.
   Budget Type	Continuous: Always effective from the date the budget is created. One-time: Effective only during the specified period.
   Start Time	This parameter needs to be set when Budget Type is set to Continuous, which specifies the start date of the budget.
   Budget Period	This parameter needs to be set when Budget Type is set to One-time, which specifies the validity period of the budget.
   Budget Amount Type	Fixed (Monthly): Set up a fixed monthly budget amount. Custom (Monthly): Plan budget amounts month by month.
   Budget Amount	When the budget amount type is Fixed (Monthly), you only need to set a fixed value. When the budget amount type is Custom (Monthly), you need to set a budget amount for each month. If the budget amount is not set for a month, the budget amount of the previous month is automatically used. For example, if the budget amount is not set for May 2021, the budget amount of April 2021 is automatically used for May 2021.
   Data	Set the data range of the budget as needed. In the left pane, filter Service Type, Enterprise Project, Region, and so on. The expenditure data of the corresponding products in the last 18 months is displayed in the right pane, for your reference.

4. Set the alert threshold and the information of alert recipients, and click Finish.

   

   Table 2 Parameters of a budget (II)

   Parameter	Description
   Alert Threshold	When your actual expenditure reaches a certain amount or percentage, an alert is sent. Amount: When your actual expenditure reaches this amount, an alert is sent. Percentage: When your actual expenditure reaches this percentage of the budget amount, an alert is sent.
   Contact	Information of contacts who will receive the alerts. If you want to add or modify contact information, go to Message Receiving Management > Recipient Management in the Message Center. A maximum of 10 contacts can be added for each expenditure budget.

   

   • When the expenditure amount reaches the alert threshold, you will receive an alert within 12 hours. Plan your budget threshold properly.
   • If multiple alert thresholds are set for a budget, only one alert will be sent during the check.

     Example: A budget has three alert thresholds: 60%, 70%, and 80%. When an alert check is triggered, if the expenditure amount reaches 85% of the budget amount, only one alert will be sent (indicating that the current expenditure amount exceeds 80% of the budget).

Alerts

When your actual expenditure reaches the alert threshold (for example, 80% in the preceding example), an alert is automatically sent via SMS message and email.

Viewing a Budget

1. Go to the Expenditure Budget page and you can see the list of budgets that have been created.

   Current Expenditure/Budget Amount: Displays the percentage of the current expenditure to the total budget amount.

2. Click a budget name link to view details of the budget.

Editing a Budget

1. Go to the Expenditure Budget page.
2. Click Edit in the Operation column of the target budget to edit it.

Deleting a Budget

1. Go to the Expenditure Budget page.
2. Click Delete in the Operation column of the target budget to delete it.