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.