Budget Alerts

Your monthly cloud budget is €15,000. You find out you've spent €22,000 on the 5th of next month, when the invoice arrives. That's three weeks too late. Whatever caused the overspend has been running for weeks, and you've already paid for it.

Cloud budgets fail because they're checked monthly. Spending happens daily. By the time you see the total, the damage is done.

What it does

Budget Alerts lets you set spending thresholds on your Outscale accounts. When your daily consumption pushes you toward — or past — those thresholds, you get notified. Immediately. Not next month.

Set a warning at 80% of your monthly budget. Set an alert at 100%. Set a critical notification at 120%. Each threshold triggers a notification to the channels you choose: email, Slack, Discord, or a custom webhook for your internal systems.

Multiple thresholds mean you get escalating warnings. The 80% alert is a heads-up. The 100% alert is "we need to look at this now." The 120% alert is "someone call the team lead."

How it works

Define your budget — the monthly spending limit you're targeting. Set your thresholds as percentages of that budget. Choose your notification channels.

Vextnd checks daily consumption against your thresholds. When projected or actual spending crosses a threshold, the alert fires. The notification includes the current spend, the threshold that was crossed, the projected end-of-month total, and which account triggered it.

For multi-account setups, each account can have its own budget and thresholds. The dev account gets a €3,000 budget with alerts at 90% and 110%. The production account gets €10,000 with alerts at 80%, 100%, and 130%. Each one independent, each one targeted to the right team.

Webhook support means you can integrate budget alerts into your existing incident management. PagerDuty, OpsGenie, custom dashboards — if it accepts an HTTP POST, Budget Alerts can talk to it.

Why it matters

Budget overruns aren't always caused by mistakes. Sometimes a legitimate workload scales unexpectedly. Sometimes Outscale pricing changes. Sometimes a new project onboards and nobody updated the budget. The cause doesn't matter — what matters is knowing about it while you can still act.

A budget alert at 80% gives you a week to investigate, right-size, or get approval for the overage. Finding out at month-end gives you nothing but a bigger invoice and an awkward conversation with finance.

For teams with budget accountability — which is increasingly every team — this is the difference between proactive management and reactive damage control. The alert costs nothing. The surprise costs a lot.

Set your budget. Get alerted early. Start your free trial on Vextnd.