Umbrella's Cloud Cost Management platform offers powerful alerting capabilities to help you stay on top of your cloud expenses. With our alert rules, you can receive notifications via email or Slack based on your predefined settings. This guide will walk you through setting up and managing alerts.

two main types of alert rules: Service-Cost Alert Rules and Commitment Expiration Alerts:

1. Cost Alert Rules: Cost Alert Rules monitor changes in your cloud costs at both the Linked Account/Project/Subscription level, service level and aggregated level.
2. Commitment Expiration Alerts: Commitment Expiration Alerts are supported AWS/Azure/GCP commitment. These alerts notify you before your Savings Plans (AWS/Azure), Reservations (AWS/Azure), CUD (GCP) are about to expire, giving you enough time to take necessary actions to renew or adjust your commitments.

Creating Service Cost Alert Rules

1. From the left menu, navigate to the Monitoring > Alerts page.
2. Click on the Service Cost Alert Rules tab

3. Click on Create Alert Rule from the right side of the page.
4. Define the Alert setting with the following information:
   • Alert Type:
     • Trend Alerts: Compare cost changes over time to track spending patterns and identify optimization opportunities.
     • Threshold Alerts: Compare changes to a static cost amount to identify optimization opportunities.
   • Cost: Select the design cost Unblended/Amortize/Net Amortize.
   • Alert name
   • Alert level:
     • Linked Account/Subscription/Project-Level Cost Alert: Receive alerts for changes in individual Linked account/Project/Subscription level costs.
     • Service-Level Cost Alert: Receive alerts for changes in individual service costs.
     • Total-Cost Alert: Receive alerts for changes in the aggregated costs of all services.
   • Comparison Rules: Define the comparison criteria:
     • Today vs. Yesterday
     • This week vs. Last week: WTD comparison, starting from Monday.
     • This month vs. Last month: MTD comparison from the beginning of the month.
     • Day this week vs. Day last week: comparison between specific days. E.g. this Monday compared with last week's Monday.
   • Criteria of Change: Specify whether the alert should trigger changes, increases, or decreases, and set the thresholds by percentage and/or cost.
   • Recipient: Choose where to send the alert notifications; email or Slack channels.
   • Filters: Customize the alert by including or excluding parameters such as service, tags, business mapping, charge type, etc.

5. Click on Create.

Creating Commitment Expiration Alert Rules

1. From the left menu, navigate to the Monitoring > Alerts page.
2. Click on the Commitment Expiration Alert Rules tab

3. Choose if to create an alert for Savings plans or reservations and click on Create Alert rule.
4. Choose how many days before the commitment expires you want to be notified, and choose the relevant recipient - can be an email or a Slack channel.
5. Click on Create.

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