Introduction to budgets
You can create budgets to control spending for one or more tenants and providers. The platform tests your budgets with your daily cost and usage data from the cloud provider. This is the same data that it displays on the billing dashboard widgets.
When your costs pass a certain threshold, you can configure your budget to trigger one or more action plans. You might use this feature for a scenario such as “When our team has consumed 50 % of its budget amount in AWS, send an email to the System Administrator.”
Display budgets
To display budgets:
Privileges: Access budgets section, Manage budgets
Go to Control → Budgets
Select the enterprise that the budget was created in OR select All
Create a budget
Before you begin:
Check that your billing system will obtain cost and usage data from the cloud provider. The platform will use this data to evaluate the consumption of the budget.
See Hybrid and for configuration instructions, see Display cloud provider billing data and Configure dashboard display
Create action plans for your budget to run. See Manage action plans
To create a budget:
Privileges: Access budgets section, Manage budgets, View enterprise hierarchy
Go to Control → Budgets
Click the + add button
Enter general information
For the Amount enter the total amount of the budget and the currency. If an enterprise in the hierarchy has a different currency and a conversion_factor enterprise property, perform a conversion.
For the Reset cycle, select an option to reset the budget after each month, quarter, year, or never. The reset cycle begins at the budget start date. So a budget starting on the 15th day of the month would be reset on the 15th day of the next month
Go to Apply budget and click the + add button to add enterprises and providers that the budget will apply to. If the user has the privilege to
View enterprise hierarchy, then the user can also select enterprises from the scopes beneath their scope in the hierarchy. You can select all providers or a specific provider for each enterprise. You can filter enterprises and providers with a text string.
Go to Action plans and click the + add button to add action plans to run when the users consume up to the trigger level.
Enter the Trigger percentage of budget consumption that will trigger the action plan
Select the Action plan by name. This functionality is designed to make use of the email notifications from action plans but you can select any action plan.
Optionally, after you add the action plans, to turn off budget actions, select the Mute checkbox
Click Save
Currency conversions
This feature uses the conversion_factor enterprise property to convert between currencies. You should assign this property to any customer of a reseller that is using a different currency, to enable the platform to perform the conversion. If the platform cannot find the conversion factor property, it will use the default value of 1. The platform always uses the latest value of the conversion factor, and it does not store previous values. If you change the conversion factor, then the platform will use the latest value to calculate the consumption.
Edit a budget
When you edit a budget, you can change the name, and the amount and currency. You can also change the entities that the budget applies to and the action plans that it will trigger.
Change the elements that a budget applies to
If you add or delete an enterprise, the platform will recalculate the amounts consumed by each enterprise. If you remove an enterprise, the platform will consider the amount already consumed by the enterprise. The platform will exclude the enterprise from the next billing cycle.
Edit action plans and mute notifications
When you make changes to the trigger amount or the action plans, the changes will not take effect until the next time the platform evaluates the amount consumed by the budget.
To stop a budget from sending notifications after you reach a consumption threshold, select the Muted checkbox.
Delete a budget
To delete a budget:
Go to Control → Budgets
Select the budget
Click the trash delete button
Display budget data on the home view dashboard
To add a widget to your Home view dashboard, see Manage dashboards and t.