Cost monitors help you manage your Dynatrace Platform Subscription budget and identify unexpected cost increases. They monitor your overall forecasted usage and warn you when usage changes significantly or forecasts exceed user-defined threshold amounts. They also monitor daily costs at the capability and environment levels, alerting you when costs exceed predicted levels.
Cost monitors are only available for Dynatrace Platform Subscriptions.
Cost monitors start executing 30 days after the subscription start date, at which time sufficient forecast data is available.
Dynatrace calculates a daily linear forecast of overall account cost and generates forecast events when:
[Date] Forecast costs [%] exceed the defined threshold of [%]
[Date] Forecast costs increased [%] week-over-week. Forecast costs at [total-forecast%]
The budget forecast event panel on the right-hand side displays up to three of the most recent forecast events.
Dynatrace only generates a forecast event if the current day's forecast exceeds the previous day's forecast. For example:
Forecast costs [105%] exceed the defined threshold of 100%
Forecast costs [102%] exceed the defined threshold of 100%
Select View all forecast events to view all forecast events in the Notification center. You can adjust the forecast thresholds on the Notification settings page, accessible from the Notification center (see the Notification center section below for more details).
Each day, Dynatrace analyzes costs for each capability in your environments and generates cost events when all the following conditions are true:
A cost event generates a message with the format: [Date] Increase in [capability name] detected in environment [tenantID]
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The Cost events panel displays the five most recent cost events.
Select View details on any cost event card to open the related Capability cost and usage analysis page. The capability, environment, and timeframe (+/- five days) are automatically filtered for the selected event.
Select View all forecast events to view the Notification center history of all forecast events.
Because cost events rely on cost data that is calculated daily, Dynatrace might not raise cost events until two days after the event occurs. Also note that cost monitors don't generate cost events for amounts less than 1 USD (or cost equivalent in your local currency).
The Notification center provides a history of all forecast and cost events. See above for details on how to access the Notification center.
The table displays events detected during the current commitment period, with the newest events displayed in the table's top rows. The table includes:
Cost monitors can notify you via API and email when forecast and cost events occur.
API documentation for forecast and cost events is available in Dynatrace Platform Subscription API documentation.
To manage email settings, select Notification settings in the Notifications Center. You need the View and manage account and billing information account permission to manage notification settings.
For forecast notification thresholds, you can adjust:
For cost event notifications, there are no thresholds to manage. Dynatrace uses linear forecasting algorithms to determine an acceptable range of values, and cost events are triggered when observed values fall outside of this range. In this way, Dynatrace ensures that meaningful increases are detected and that you are notified without false alerts.
These settings control the distribution of forecast and cost event notifications:
Remember to save your changes when you finish setting up notifications.
Cost monitors generate email notifications for specified recipients when forecast and cost events occur in an account. By default, license administrators are notified of all forecast and cost events. License administrators can subsequently define a specific email distribution list for these notifications. This approach ensures that someone is notified about license events without any upfront configuration.
Cost monitor emails are sent from the email address no-reply@dynatrace.com
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Each email includes a list of the events that were detected on that day. If no events were detected, no email is sent.
Select View your account in the email to open the Notification Center page in Account Management.