Working with Budget

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Create Budget
• View/Edit budget
• Delete Budget

Introduction

Cost Monitoring allows users to create and manage the budget. It includes creating and scoping the budget for group of accounts, services, regions, and tags. Beside, users can also configure budget threshold and get notified when the current monthly spend is equal to the configured threshold and budget.

Create Budget

Follow these steps to create a new budget.

1. After logging in to Nimbus Stream, click on the Cost Monitoring service.

2. On the Sidebar, you will find Budgets However, by default you will landed on the Budgets listing page after clicking on the Cost Monitoring service, as shown below.

3. Create on the Create You will be redirected to Create Budget form page.

4. In the Budget Details section, you shall choose the CSP that will be applied for the budget. You are allowed to choose more than one CSP. Also, you shall enter the budget name which will be the budget identifier.

5. Enter the date on Start Period field to determine the start date the budget will be applied. By clicking the “The budget has an end period” checkbox (optional), the End Period field will appear and allow you to determine the end date of the budget. After expiration, a budget record will stop renewing but remain accessible from the Budgets listing page.

6. In the Budget Filters section, you can filter the budget resources that will be tracked against the budget, including in account level, region level, service level, and tag level (hereinafter, they are referred to as “dimension”). To add a filter, click on the Add Filter button.

7. Select a resources that will be tracked against the budget in the Dimension and Value You can add more than one filters, and if you need to delete any of them, click on the Remove button.

8. In the Budget Allocation section, enter the budget allocated for the selected resources in the Budget Amount You can refer to the Last Month’s Cost field for the actual spend in the last month.

9. In the Alert Configuration section, you can set the alert threshold that will trigger the alert notification so you will be notified if the actual spend has passed the budget threshold. You can enter the threshold either in the Alert Threshold (%) or the Alert Amount field (for currency input in dollar). You can also set more than one alert threshold by clicking the Add Alert button.

10. Enter the alert recipient in the Email Contacts You can add more than one recipient. However, the default value will be Partner Admin’s email.

11. After all the parameters has been set, then you can save the budget by clicking the Create button. Upon successful creation, the budget will appear on the Budget listing page.

View/Edit Budget

Follow these steps to view/edit a budget.

1. After logging in to Nimbus Stream, click on the Cost Monitoring service.

2. On the Sidebar, you will find Budgets However, by default you will landed on the Budgets listing page after clicking on the Cost Monitoring service, as shown below.

3. On the Budgets listing table, click on a Pencil icon button of a budget.

4. You can view or edit any field within the budget, please refer to Create Budget section for the details. If any field edited, then click on the Save button to save the changes.

Delete Budget

Follow these steps to delete a budget.

1. After logging in to Nimbus Stream, click on the Cost Monitoring service.

2. On the Sidebar, you will find Budgets However, by default you will landed on the Budgets listing page after clicking on the Cost Monitoring service, as shown below.

3. On the Budgets listing table, click on a Trash icon button of a budget.

4. On the following confirmation dialog, click on the OK button.

5. Upon successful deletion, the budget will disappear from the listing.