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Alerts

Alerts Overview

The Alerts Dashboard enables you to create, manage, and track automated alerts for cost and resource events across Cloud, AI, Kubernetes, Datacenter, and SaaS environments. You can configure alerts as daily, weekly, or monthly notifications to monitor cost spikes, RI/SP expirations, and other key thresholds. Alerts support flexible filtering by perspectives or custom scopes, and can notify selected users and channels via email, integrated tools, or within the Mavvrik UI—helping you take timely action and stay ahead of potential issues.

Why this matters: a cost spike or an expiring RI/SP commitment is only actionable if you catch it in time — by the time someone happens to open the dashboard and notices, the spend has often already happened. Alerts push the notification to you the moment a threshold is crossed, so acting on it doesn't depend on remembering to go looking.

This shows up differently depending on your role:

  • FinOps managers use RI/SP expiration alerts to catch a commitment lapsing before it silently reverts to on-demand pricing.

  • Engineering leads use cost-spike alerts scoped to their own team's Perspective as an early signal to investigate — a runaway job or misconfigured autoscaler, before it shows up as a surprise in monthly reporting.

  • Finance leaders use monthly cost alerts across broader scopes to catch drift against plan early enough in the month to still act on it.

Alert Workflows

Steps to create Alerts

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Alerts under Operate

Open Alerts from the Operate menu
Open Alerts from the Operate menu

  1. Click on +Create Alerts

  1. Enter Name & Description

  1. Select Monthly /Daily Cost/ RI / SP Expiration

  2. Select Data source: Cloud/AI/Kubernetes/Datacenter/SaaS

    • Cloud: All public cloud accounts cost will be tracked for the alert.

    • AI: All AI accounts cost will be tracked for the alert.

    • Kubernetes: All Kubernetes accounts cost will be tracked for the alert.

    • Datacenter: All Datacenter accounts cost will be tracked for the alert.

    • SaaS: Select the SaaS like Databricks,MongoDB etc which you onboarded

  1. Select the of all/Perspective/Scope

    • All: all resource costs will be tracked for the alert.

    • Perspective: select perspectives which are already created (Perspectives ) & that perspective's filters will be applied to the alert. (Perspectives)

    • Scope: create your own custom filters for alert using basic and advanced filters.

  1. Select is more than/ is going up by

  1. Enter cost in $

  1. Select different Options to filter out the cost(Multiple Selection is allowed)

  1. Select the users to Notify ( You can select multiple users)

  1. Select channels to Notify ( You can select multiple channels)

Note: To be notified through channels, you need to create different channels from the Integration module. Integrations

Best practice: an alert is only useful if it reaches someone who's still around to act on it. If every notified user for an alert leaves the team, that alert effectively goes silent with no error or warning. Notifying a channel (Slack/Teams) alongside individual users is a good safeguard — a channel keeps working even as individual membership changes, so review and refresh the notified-user list periodically rather than assuming it stays accurate on its own.

  1. Click Create

Configure alert details and select a data source
Configure alert details and select a data source
Define the alert scope and cost threshold
Define the alert scope and cost threshold
Select alert recipients and create the alert
Select alert recipients and create the alert

  1. New Rule is created and displayed as shown below.

When you select the number of rows, you will be able to view that same quantity of rows on the page."

Review the newly created alert rule
Review the newly created alert rule

  1. If you select both the 'Notify User' and 'Notify Channel' options, a notification will be sent to the user via email and on the selected channels. The notification will also be displayed in the Mavvrik UI next to the user's profile name

Note: Users can view specific notifications if they are added as notified users for a specific alert

  1. Click on Bell Icon to view the Notification

Open alert notifications from the bell icon
Open alert notifications from the bell icon

Steps to Edit Alerts

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Alerts under Admin

Open Alerts from the Admin menu
Open Alerts from the Admin menu

  1. Click on the Edit icon

  1. Change the Alert Rule

Modify an alert rule before updating it
Modify an alert rule before updating it

  1. Click Update

Steps to Delete Alerts

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Alerts under Admin

Select an alert to delete
Select an alert to delete

  1. Click on the Delete icon

  1. Click Delete button from the popup

  1. Alert is deleted from the List.

  1. Click on the Cancel or X icon to close the pop-up

Clone Alerts

Clone an existing alert to quickly create a new one with the same setup already in place.
This is useful when you need a similar view for another team, business unit, environment, or customer use case.
Instead of rebuilding filters and structure from scratch, you can start with a copied version and make only the needed changes.
The cloned alert is independent, so updates to it do not affect the original.

  1. Login with user roles as Owner/Editor

  2. Click on Menu

  3. Click on Alerts under Admin

Open an existing alert from the Admin menu
Open an existing alert from the Admin menu

  1. Click on the Clone icon (You can see same filtered options selected)

Clone an alert with its existing filters
Clone an alert with its existing filters

  1. Edit the required filters and create

Page Tools

Header Icons

Use the Alerts page reset, status, and help tools
Use the Alerts page reset, status, and help tools

Info

The "last updated" date and time stamp show when the data on the page was last refreshed. This can be useful for understanding the age of the data and determining if it is up to date.

Reload Option

The "reset" option allows you to clear all filters and selections from the page, returning it to the default view. This can be useful if you want to start over or view the data in its original form.

Help

If you click on the "?" icon, you can access the help documentation for the page. This can provide you with additional information and guidance on using the page and its features.

FAQs

What's the difference between choosing a Perspective and choosing Scope when creating an alert?
Perspective applies an existing, reusable set of filters (one you've already created for other purposes, like a Budget or a Cost view). Scope lets you build a one-off custom filter just for this alert instead. Use Perspective when the same filter logic should stay consistent across multiple features; use Scope for something specific to this one alert.

What happens if I select both Notify User and Notify Channel?
Both fire — the selected users get notified by email and see it in the Mavvrik UI next to their profile, and the selected channels also receive the notification. It's not either/or.