Financial alerts
Instantly identify and address cost spikes and anomalies to keep your cloud bill in check
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Instantly identify and address cost spikes and anomalies to keep your cloud bill in check
Last updated
PerfectScale Financial Alerts allow users to set up cost and waste alerts, notifying them when exceeding specific thresholds. This enables proactive cost management and resource optimization, helping teams stay within budget and reduce unnecessary spending.
To start receiving financial alerts, create a Financial Alerts Rule.
Go to the Settings tab on the left panel -> select Financial Alerts -> click the Create Alert Rule button -> configure the rule -> click Save button.
Alert Name
Name your financial alert rule to seamlessly organize, filter, and analyze alerts on the financial alerts dashboard.
Target
Defines the scope of monitoring for alerts:
Organization - monitors metrics across the entire account;
Cluster - monitors metrics of the specific cluster(s). Select cluster(s) from the cluster selector.
Namespace - monitors metrics of the specific namespace(s). Select the specific cluster and then the namespace(s) from the selector that appears. Use the + button to select multiple clusters.
Workload - monitors metrics of the specific workload(s). Select the specific cluster and then specify the namespace(s) and workload(s) from the selector that appears. Use the + button to select multiple clusters.
Scope
Defines the metric to monitor for triggering the alerts
Cost - track the cost of specified objects in Target. When the defined metric exceeds the defined threshold, an alert will be triggered.
Waste - track the waste of specified objects in Target. When the defined metric exceeds the defined threshold, an alert will be triggered.
Period
Specifies the metric evaluation window (Hour, Day, Week, Month).
Example: If selected Day - PerfectScale will daily evaluate the metric and trigger an alert if the threshold is exceeded.
Starting At
Specifies the start date for the metric evaluation period.
Threshold
Specifies the conditions that will trigger an alert.
Amount - defines a specific monetary value exceeding what will trigger an alert.
Compared to the previous period - specifies the max deviation of the value to trigger the alert compared to the previous period based on the selected evaluation window. Set a maximum allowed percentage increase and a minimal trigger value as thresholds.
Notification
By default, PerfectScale automatically publishes alerts to your Financial Alerts dashboard. Additionally, you can configure alert routing directly to the preferred communication channel (Slack, MS Teams, etc.) in just two simple steps:
Create the profile. Learn more about available communication integrations here.
Select the relevant profile in the Notification drop-down list when configuring the Financial Alerts Rule.
PerfectScale does not support Slack profiles with the configured routing by label or by ID for financial alerts. In that case, alerts will be sent the default
