Octo’s Alerts Management feature is designed to give you full control over your cloud costs by keeping you informed in real time. Currently, Octo supports four types of alerts: Cost Alerts, Anomaly Detection, Discount Expiration, and Budget Alerts. Each plays a specific role in ensuring you stay proactive and confident in managing your cloud spend.
⚠️ Before you begin: Make sure you have at least one channel configured in the Channel Management page. If no channel has been set up, go to Channel Management and create one before proceeding.
How to navigate alert management?
📝To access Alerts Management and start creating alert:
On your dashboard, click the gear icon in the upper-right corner.
Under the “NOTIFICATION”, select “Alerts Management”.
Creating your cost alerts
Cost alerts help you track and control the daily spend of your cost groups. You can set up alerts for multiple cost groups and send them to multiple notification channels.
📝Follow the steps in creating cost alerts.
📖 When creating a cost alert, you’ll configure two important thresholds:
Fixed Cost Amount
Enter the spending limit you want to apply to a specific cost group (or groups). If daily spend exceeds this limit, Octo automatically sends an alert through your chosen notification channel.
Percentage Compared to Previous Day
Set a percentage threshold to monitor changes in daily spend compared to the previous day. If spending exceeds this percentage, an alert is triggered and delivered to your selected channel.
Creating anomaly detection alerts
Anomaly Detection is one of the most important features in Octo. That’s why anomaly detection alerts should be treated with the same level of importance—they serve as triggers that prompt you to take timely action whenever unusual cost patterns are identified. These alerts help ensure that your cloud spending stays under control by notifying you of significant deviations from your historical spending behavior.
📝Follow the steps in creating anomaly detection.
With Anomaly Detection alerts, you can monitor a cost group for anomalies and receive notifications when irregularities occur. You can configure alerts for a single cost group and distribute them across multiple channels, ensuring that the right people are informed and can respond quickly.
Creating Discount Expiration Alerts
Discount Expiration Alerts help you stay on top of upcoming expirations for your purchased discounts, such as Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plans (SP) in AWS. The feature currently supports AWS, with future plans to extend coverage to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
📝Follow the steps in creating discount expiration alerts.
Creating Budget Alerts
Setting up Budget Alerts is part of the budget creation process. It allows you to create alerts right after creating your budget.
💡Note: To create a budget alert, make sure to create a budget first.
The Budget Alert feature allows you to receive notifications when your spending exceeds your budget. These alerts help you stay informed about any budget overruns.
📝 Follow the steps in creating budget alerts.
Edit Alerts
The editing alerts allow you modify/edit existing alerts. For example, if you want to receive another alert but in a different notification channel, you can edit it to add your preferred notification channel.
You can edit cost, anomaly, and discount expiration alerts directly in the Alerts Management page. However, editing budget alerts can also be done in another way.
📝 Follow the steps in editing alerts.
Editing Budget Alert in Cost Group Overview
Editing budget alerts can also be done directly on your cost group dashboard.
📝 Follow these steps:
On your Cost Group Overview, click the Budget tab and select the budget that has the alerts you want to edit by clicking View Details.
Click the edit icon and make the necessary changes by following the instruction presented
Once you’re done, click Edit Budget.
Deleting Alerts
Similar to editing alerts, you can do the process directly on the Alerts Management page.
📝 Follow the steps in deleting an alert.
Enable and Disable Alerts
This feature is designed to give you more control over how you manage alerts. Instead of permanently deleting an alert when you no longer want to receive notifications, you can simply disable it. This way, the alert is preserved and can be re-enabled whenever you need it again. While an alert is enabled, it remains active and will continue sending notifications whenever its conditions are met.
💡Note: This option is only available for anomaly and discount expiration alerts.