Hi guys,
I have nightmares about my AWS account being compromised and then shocked by a huge AWS bill. AWS’s own primitive budgeting feature sucks since we usually bust through thresholds & they aren’t updated since we are a growing startup. So my current tact is to catch sudden surges of cost as quickly as possible using AWS’s EstimatedCharges. If there is a better methodology, please let me know.
Oh btw none of this works until one enables Receive Billing Alerts in https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/preferences on AWS btw!
I don’t quite understand us-east-1’s AWS/Billing Cloudwatch metric of EstimatedCharges update frequency, so if anyone knows better, again please let me know.
I was playing with Alert’s percent_diff and first off the alert always seems to be triggered based on what info is there in the graph, or has No data when testing. So I am quite puzzled how to get this typical use case sorted in Grafana! Please view my screencast for details: https://media.dev.unee-t.com/2018-08-29/estimatedcharges.mp4
Thank you,