How to use Billing Alerts

The Scaleway console Billing Alerts feature allows you to manage and keep track of your expenses by setting up alerts to trigger when a budget threshold is reached. An alert can be sent to you by SMS, email or API webhook.

The budget is the limit of your expenses, in euros. The threshold is a percentage of this limit. Both are previously defined by you in the console.

For example:

• If you have defined a budget of €1000, you may configure an email notification to be sent once you have consumed 50% of this limit. In this case, once your consumption gets to €500 you will receive an email informing you the limit threshold has been reached.

1. Go to the Billing Overview page by clicking on Billing in the Organization drop-down menu of the Scaleway console.

2. Click «Toogle Icon» under Enable Billing Alerts to set a billing alert and insert the monthly amount in the box.

   A warning pops up to inform you that:

   Important:

   Billing Alerts only provide a rough estimate of what can be charged to your monthly invoice. Additional costs related to your usage before the alert is triggered can still appear on your invoice after the alert is generated. Please keep in mind that only your monthly invoice is considered legally valid.

3. Click I understand Billing Alerts are based on estimates and wish to proceed.

   

4. Click «Edit Icon» in the right corner to edit and insert the limit threshold (%) in the box.3. Click I understand Billing Alerts are based on estimates and wish to proceed.

   

5. Click «Edit Icon» in the right corner to edit and insert the limit threshold (%) in the box.

6. Click the Validate icon to confirm. The Billing Alerts warning displays.

7. Click I understand Billing Alerts are based on estimates and wish to proceed once more. The details of your alert display.

   You may set up to 10 billing alerts. If you wish to add others, click + Add billing alert and repeat the process.

Webhook API Call

When you configure a Webhook, an HTTP request is made to the configured URL. It will transmit the following information as an HTTP POST request to the given URL:

Header: "Content-Type": "application/json"
POST /my/configured/webhook
{
    "invoice_start_date": <INVOICE_START_DATE>,
    "threshold": <THRESHOLD_VALUE_IN_PERCENT>
}Copy