Creating Budgets and Configuring Alerts

Actual cost &gt;: If the actual cost reaches a certain amount or a certain percentage of a budgeted amount, an alert will be reported.
Forecasted &gt;: If the forecasted cost reaches a certain amount or a certain percentage of a budgeted amount, an alert will be reported.

Updated on 2024-11-26 GMT+08:00

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You can set budget thresholds and configure alerts to track your daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly costs or resource usage.

Example

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

NOTE:

Enable forecasting before creating a forecasting-based budget. For details, see Forecasting.

Step 1: Creating a Budget

Log in to Cost Center.
Choose Budget Management > Budgets.
Click Create Budget.
Select Custom Budget and click Create Budget.
Select Cost budget and click Next.
Configure budget details.
Define the budget scope and click Next.
Set alert thresholds and recipients, and click Next.
- Actual cost >: If the actual cost reaches a certain amount or a certain percentage of a budgeted amount, an alert will be reported.
- Forecasted >: If the forecasted cost reaches a certain amount or a certain percentage of a budgeted amount, an alert will be reported.
Confirm your budget settings and click Save.