Set budgets per team
Create budgets that alert the team that can act, not just the FinOps inbox.
Get allocation in place
Budgets per team need spend that's attributable to teams. See Allocate cost to teams.
Pick the scope
For each team, pick the accounts or services it owns. Enter them in the budget's filters, separated by commas.
Pick the period
Use Monthly for most teams. Use Daily for fast-moving costs such as data transfer or AI tokens, where a month is too long to wait.
Set the amount from history
Ask Iris What did [team] spend per month over the last 6 months? and set the budget a little above the recent average, or at the planned amount.
Add thresholds
Keep 80% and 100%. Add 50% for daily budgets if you want an early warning.
Notify the team
Add the team's Slack channel and its lead's email.
Turn on the ticket rule
Keep Budget exceeded 100% → ticket on so every breach has an owner and an SLA.
Clean up
Every month, open the Looks like tests group and delete budgets that are 5× or more below spend.