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Spend alerts send email notifications when spending on your team or organization crosses a percentage threshold of a monthly budget you define. You can create multiple alerts with different scopes: total spend, specific products, or, for organizations, specific teams.

Spend alerts are available for both teams and organizations:

• For teams, go to the Spend alerts tab on the Billing page.
• For organizations, click the profile icon in the top right of the Control Panel, click View Organizations, select your organization, click the Billing tab, then click Spend alerts.

Create a Spend Alert

To create a spend alert, click Create alert to open the Create New Spend Alert window, then fill out the following fields:

• Alert name: A name for the alert.
• Monthly budget amount: The monthly spend amount that percentage thresholds are measured against.
• Alert thresholds: One or more percentages of your budget. We send a notification when your usage crosses each threshold. To use a percentage not in the list, click Add custom threshold.
• What do you want to track?: Choose Total spend to track all usage in the alert’s scope, or Specific products to narrow the alert to products you choose.

For organizations, an alert’s scope can cover the entire organization or a single team in the organization.

The Notification recipients section lists who receives the alert emails: team owners and billers for team alerts, and organization owners and billers for organization alerts.

Click Create alert to save the alert.

Edit a Spend Alert

To edit an existing alert, on the Spend alerts page, click the … menu next to the alert, then click Edit alert to open the Edit Spend Alert page. Update the alert’s name, budget, thresholds, or tracking options, then click Save changes.

How Spend Alert Notifications Work

We send notifications based on your actual usage and notify recipients within an hour of your spend crossing a threshold. Each threshold notifies once per billing cycle. If you change an alert’s budget or thresholds during a billing cycle, its threshold tracking resets, and notifications can fire again as spend crosses the updated thresholds.

Because alerts are based on actual usage, projections of Droplet transfer in excess of the transfer pool do not trigger an alert until they are applied to the invoice.

Migrated Billing Alerts

Before spend alerts, you could set a single billing alert that emailed you when your monthly spending exceeded a set amount. If you had a billing alert, we migrated it to the Spend alerts page as an alert named Account Spend Alert with a single threshold at 100% of your previous alert amount. To receive notifications before your spending reaches that amount, edit the alert and add lower thresholds.