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Cost Alerts

Overview​

Cost alerts notify users about significant changes in spending, helping manage budgets and optimize resource usage. By setting daily and weekly thresholds, users can track cost increases or decreases and take immediate action to prevent overspending and optimize resource usage.

Key Benefits of Setting Cost Alerts​

  • Stay informed about spending patterns across your cluster and workloads without manual monitoring.
  • Identify cost-saving opportunities or sudden cost increases proactively.

Types Of Cost Alerts​

Cost alerts are triggered based on thresholds for daily and weekly cost changes. The types of alerts include:

1. Daily Cost Alerts​

  • Increase Alerts: Triggered when daily spending rises above the set daily threshold (e.g., 4%).
  • Decrease Alerts: Triggered when daily spending drops below the set daily threshold, indicating reduced usage or possible cost savings opporunity.

2. Weekly Cost Alerts​

  • Increase Alerts: Triggered when weekly spending exceeds the set weekly threshold (e.g., 3%).
  • Decrease Alerts: Triggered when weekly spending drops below the set weekly threshold.
Example

If the daily threshold is set at 4%, any daily increase or decrease beyond this value will trigger an alert.

Note

By default, both daily and weekly thresholds are set to 10%, but you can adjust these values in the cost settings to better suit your monitoring requirements.

Viewing Cost Alerts​

Users can monitor cost alerts through the following methods:

1. Cost Alerts Page​

Note

This feature is only available in the Premium version of Randoli.

  • Navigate to the Cost Management section and select the Cost Alerts page.

  • The page lists all triggered alerts with details such as:

    • Cost change amount
    • Percentage change
    • Cluster name
    • Alert generation time

  • Status Indicators: Included with each alert, making it easier to track which clusters are experiencing cost changes.

2. Email Notification​

  • Alerts are sent directly to the configured email address.
  • This ensures users stay informed without actively monitoring the platform.

Resource-Type Breakdown for Cost Alerts​

For more granular insights, Increase Alerts can be broken down by resource types, such as:

  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Networking components

How to Enable Resource-Type Breakdown​

  1. Navigate to the Cost Alerts page.
  2. Toggle the Resource Type Breakdown switch.

Importance

This feature helps pinpoint the exact resources driving cost changes, making it easier to optimize spending.

Configure Cost Alerts Settings​

Follow these steps to set up and customize your cost alerts:

1. Navigate to Cost Alert Settings​

  • Navigate to the Settings section under Cost Management.
  • Locate the Cost Alerts settings.

2. Configure Email Notifications​

  • Find the field labeled Email that will receive cost alert notifications.
  • Enter the email address where you want to receive alerts. For example: alerts@yourcompany.com.
  • Save your changes.

3. Set Daily and Weekly Thresholds​

  • Adjust the Daily Threshold slider to your preferred percentage (e.g., 4%).
  • Adjust the Weekly Threshold slider (e.g., 3%).
  • Save your changes.

Recommendation

Use lower thresholds for sensitive budgets to detect small changes quickly.

Conclusion​

By configuring cost alerts, you can track spending patterns, prevent budget overruns, and identify savings opportunities.

For more details, refer to the Cost Management settings to ensure your alert settings are aligned with your budget and monitoring requirements.

Troubleshooting and FAQs​

QuestionSolution
I’m not receiving email alerts.Ensure the email address is valid and actively monitored. Check your spam folder.
My thresholds don’t seem to work.Ensure the threshold values are saved correctly and not set to 0%.