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Budget Control

Introduction

Budget control allows you to watch your spending and configure email notifications when limits/thresholds are exceeded.

To use budget control, you first need to enable Stacktape cost allocation tags.

Budget control currently only watches prices for AWS resources. It does not aggregate prices for resources managed by third-party providers (such as MongoDb Atlas Clusters or Upstash Redis).

If you're using custom-defined AWS Cloudformation resources configured in (cloudformationResources section), these resources might not be correctly attributed to your stack and therefore will not add to the spend.

This is due to AWS Cloudformation not propagating tags to all resources of your stack (AWS limitation).

All Stacktape-managed resource are correctly attributed to the spend.

Usage

BudgetControl  API reference
limit
Required
notifications

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budgetControl:
limit: 100 # USD

Notifications

emails
Required
budgetType
Default: ACTUAL
thresholdPercentage
Default: 100
  • Notification sends email(s) to specified email recipients when the notification condition is met.
  • Notifications are triggered:
    • when the actual spend is over specified threshold.
    • when the forecasted spend is forecasted to get over specified threshold.
  • You can configure up to 5 notifications per stack.

Actual budget type notifications

If you configure budgetType to ACTUAL (or don't specify budget type), the notification is triggered when the actual spend goes over your budget limit (100$ in the following example).

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budgetControl:
limit: 100 # USD
notifications:
- emails:
- mail1@example.com
- mail2@example.com

Forecasted budget type notifications

If you configure budgetType to FORECASTED, the notification is triggered when the forecasted spend goes over your budget limit (80$ in the following example).

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budgetControl:
limit: 100
notifications:
- budgetType: FORECASTED
thresholdPercentage: 80
emails:
- mail1@example.com

AWS requires approximately 5 weeks of usage data to generate budget forecasts. If you set a notification to trigger based on a FORECASTED amount, this notification isn't triggered until you have enough historical usage information. Therefore we advise using forecasted notifications mainly for long-running production stacks. To learn more about budgets, refer to AWS docs

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