Usage alerts

Set spending limits and get notified by email when your usage exceeds them.

Usage alerts let you set a spending limit and choose threshold percentages of that limit. When usage in the current billing period crosses a threshold, Sevalla sends an email to the recipients you configure.

You can set alerts at two levels:

• Company: tracks total spending across every project, application, database, static site, object storage, and load balancer in your company.
• Project: tracks spending for the services that belong to a single project.

You can have one alert configuration for the company and one for each project.

How alerts work

Each alert configuration has:

• A spending limit in USD.
• One or more threshold percentages (between 1 and 100, up to 10 per configuration). For example, 50%, 75%, and 90%.
• One or more email recipients.

Sevalla checks usage against your alerts every hour. When the current period’s usage crosses a threshold, an email is sent to every recipient on the configuration. Each threshold triggers at most once per billing period, so you receive a single notification per threshold even if usage continues to grow.

When the next billing period starts, all thresholds reset and become eligible to trigger again.

Create a company-wide alert

Click Company settings > Usage and then click Add alert.

Set the following:

• Budget limit - the USD amount from which the thresholds are calculated.
• Percentage thresholds - one or more percentages of the limit. Add up to 10 thresholds.
• Email recipients - one or more email addresses to notify. Click Add recipient to add more email addresses.

Click Create alert to save. The alert applies to the total spending of every service in your company.

Create a project alert

Open the project, go to its Usage tab, and click Add alert. The fields are the same as for a company alert, but the thresholds are calculated only against the spending of services that belong to that project.

A project alert is independent of the company alert. If you have both, you can be notified when the project or the company crosses its limit, or both.

Update or delete an alert

Within the Usage alerts, you can:

• Update: Change the spending limit, thresholds, or recipients.
• Delete: Delete the alert. Once deleted, no further emails are sent for it.

When a project is deleted, its usage alert is removed automatically.

Notes

• Usage alerts are notifications only. They do not pause, suspend, or limit any of your services when a threshold is reached.
• Thresholds are evaluated against gross usage (including tax) for the current billing period, matching the totals shown on the Usage page.
• If you change the spending limit or thresholds mid-period, the new values take effect on the next hourly check. Thresholds that already fired this period stay fired until the next period starts.