Cost Alerting Recommendation: Budget Pace Exceeded

Instead of a % of budget, what we really need is to be alerted anytime we are above a budgeted pace. For example, if Azure could calculate at the end of each business day what our total costs for the billing cycle are so far, and what percent of the billing cycle has elapsed, you could send us an alert if we are above the budget dollar pace we set.Here's the business case. I get a monthly budget approved by my Finance Department. With this enhancement, I would set one budget pace alert at a dollar value a little lower than my approved number so I have some cushion. Then, if I receive a You're over budget pace email, this is a real alert as I have to take action. With current functionality, I now set a bunch of % limits and I am frequently getting alerted for no reason during the month as after I do the math, we are within budget pace.

Budgets + Alerts

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Joseph John2 years ago

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Stefan Pietersen3 years ago

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Absolutely agree with this. There is no way to monitor your spend on a daily basis to catch a problem early on, currently you can only get alerted when you get to or close to your entire monthly budget. If something go wrong at the beginning of the month, you will get an alert, but you won't have any budget left for the rest of the month. Only other way is to set up multiple threshold alerts and then check your email every day and do the calculation to see if is higher than expected. But that way you get a lot of emails to troll through

Kenneth Braley3 years ago

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Absolutely needed if you want to truly want to manage your current spend rate.