The Alerting feature lets you create alerts based on your spend metrics, such as monthly spend, vendor spend, or application spend, and send the notifications through the configured notification channels when the trigger conditions are met. The trigger conditions may be of threshold value or an absence of value.
You can also define the trigger type that enables you to schedule the notification on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis, or choose to trigger when the spend is loaded in the application. There are several types of alert metrics available with customizable thresholds and integrations.
From the Alerting page, you can create new alerts and manage existing ones. For information on how to create the alerts, refer Create alerts. After defining the alerts, this page displays your all types of alerts, along with their last running status, metric name, type, creation date, and current status.
Type of Metrics Available in Alerting
You can create alerts based on the following type of metrics:
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Monthly spend: Triggers when monthly expenditures exceed predefined limits.
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Application spend: Get notified if application cost surpass a specific threshold.
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Vendor spend: Alerts are triggered when vendor-related expenses exceed threshold amount.
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Cost Pool Spend: Set an alert when a particular cost pool’s spend exceeds a defined threshold
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Tower Spend: Trigger an alert if the tower spend increases compared to the defined threshold .
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YTD Spend Variance %: Triggers alerts based on the percentage change in cumulative year-to-date spend when compared to the same period in the previous year.
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Vendor Count: Alerts that trigger when the vendor count in the cost pools or towers exceeds or falls below the defined threshold value.
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Cloud Spend: Receive alerts for the spend on cloud services using specific fields available in cloud consumption feature.
Alert details
After creating the alerts, you can drill down into the alert to:
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Access information about the alert, including the notification channel name, trigger condition, last running status, message template, and channel type.
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Analyze the monthly spend trend and compare the threshold value on the chart.