Overview

The Amazon AWS Billing Event Monitor keeps track of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs. Set alerts based on actual and forecasted costs. See graphs of long-term cost trends. Get alerts about daily changes in spending. Filter and focus on specific AWS services.

Use Cases

• Forecasting end-of-month costs
• Predicting average monthly costs
• Staying ahead of changes in spending before they pile up

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Alert With [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if AWS Cannot Be Contacted

Use this option to get alerts if FrameFlow could not contact Amazon Web Services.

Alert based on the month-to-date bill

This option lets you set price thresholds for the month-to-date bill and alert you if the values you input are exceeded.

Alert based on the month-to-date bill for any category

Use this option to receive an alert if the month-to-date maximum that you set is exceeded for a bill in any category.

Alert based on the next month's forecasted total billing

Use this option to receive an alert if the total bill for the next calendar month exceeds the values you specify.

Alert based on the current month's forecasted total billing

This option will send you an alert if the values you input for each alert level are exceeded for the next month's forecasted bill.

Don't report zero-dollar values

This filtering option lets you exclude zero-dollar values from monitoring.

Exclude the following when checking categories

In the provided text box, enter the categories you want the event monitor to skip monitoring. Separate multiple entries with a comma.

Only include the following when checking categories

Enter the categories you want the event monitor to check, separating with commas. All categories that you don't enter here will be skipped.

Authentication and Security

The account that is used to authenticate must have read permission for Amazon AWS Billing API.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Month-to-Date	The total bill so far this month.
Daily Bill Increase	The dollar amount the bill has increased that day.
Daily Bill Increase %	The percentage that the bill has increased that day.

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.

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Sample Output