Creating a Cost Monitor

Procedure

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Anomaly Detection.
3. Click Create Monitor.
4. Choose a monitor type and click Next.
   • All services: This type of monitor tracks the expenditure anomalies for all your services. It is recommended if you do not need to group costs within your enterprise. Each account can only create one monitor of this type.
   • Linked accounts: This type of monitor tracks the pay-per-use expenditure anomalies for an individual linked account. It can be useful if you are using a master account for unified accounting management and want to group costs by linked accounts. The master account can create only one monitor of this type for each linked account.
   • Cost tags: This type of monitor tracks the expenditure anomalies for an individual cost tag key-value pair. It is recommended if you want to group costs by cost tags. Only one monitor of this type can be created for each cost tag value.
   • Cost categories: This type of monitor tracks the expenditure anomalies for an individual cost category. It is recommended if you want to group costs by cost categories.
   • Enterprise projects: This type of monitor tracks pay-per-use and yearly/monthly expenditure anomalies for the specified enterprise project. It is recommended if you want to group costs by enterprise project.

5. Configure monitor details and click Create Monitor.

   In this example, the Cost tags option is selected as the monitor type.