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 alerting, configure the notification method for Cost Management in Message Center. For details, see Configuring Message Receiving Methods.

Enabling Alert Notifications

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose 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.