Help Center/ Cost Center/ User Guide/ Cost Anomaly Detection/ Configuring Alert Notifications
Updated on 2024-08-15 GMT+08:00

Configuring Alert Notifications

Background

With alert notifications enabled, if the impact of an anomaly on your costs exceeds the specified threshold, the designated recipients will be notified.

Prerequisites

Before you enable budget alerts, configure notification methods for Cost Management in Message Center.

Enabling Alert Notifications

  1. Log in to Cost Center.
  2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Anomaly Detection.
  3. Click Create Alert Notification in the upper right corner of the page.
  4. Configure notification details and specify recipients.

    Cost Anomaly Detection monitors your costs and usage to detect unexpected expenditure spikes. If the impact of an anomaly on your costs reaches the specified threshold, the recipients will be notified at the configured notification frequency. The anomalies that you have confirmed will not be included in the notification.

    Field

    Description

    Notification Name

    Name of an alert notification.

    Associated Monitors

    There are two options:

    • All: Include anomalies detected by all monitors, including those you will create later. Each account can create only one such notification.
    • Selected: Include anomalies detected by the monitors you selected.

    Cost Anomalies

    Select the cost type to be covered by anomalies involved in an alert notification. You can select either pay-per-use or yearly/monthly cost anomalies, or both.

    Notification Threshold

    Under associated monitors, if the cost impact of an anomaly reaches or exceeds this threshold, specified recipients will be notified.

    Notification Frequency

    There are two notification frequency options you can choose from:

    • Daily: Specified recipients will be notified of cost anomalies from the previous day at 2:00 a.m. every day.
    • Weekly: Specified recipients will be notified of cost anomalies from the previous week at 2:00 a.m. every Tuesday.