Unexpected consumption spikes can blow budgets and erode trust. This section covers two complementary tools from Dynatrace: budgets for planned thresholds tied to your financial cycle, and cost monitors for reactive anomaly detection. It also provides a tutorial for investigating spikes when an alert fires.
Cost controls combine planned thresholds with reactive anomaly detection.
When an alert fires, a structured investigation flow takes you from the Account Management overview down to the entity, dashboard, or workflow driving the spike.
Enforce planned spending boundaries tied to your annual commitment.
Get notified about unexpected consumption changes as they happen.
Understand channels, permissions, and delivery behavior for budget and cost monitor alerts.
When a cost alert just fired and you need to pinpoint the source.