Budgets
Setting budgets and forecasting IT spend is a well-established FinOps practice, it enables you to track your actual cloud spend against your planned spend and ensures that you won't get surprised by your cloud bill.
Key features
With DoiT Budgets, you can:
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Create recurring or fixed budgets that map to your organizational and financial reporting structure. You can also choose to roll over budget surplus for recurring budgets.
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Set notifications to get informed when your actual spend exceeds defined thresholds, or subscribe to budget alerts created by others
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Track and view the progress of a budget through a budget chart that supports both linear scale and logarithmic scale.
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Investigate a budget by running a Cloud Analytics report filtered by the budget scope.
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Share budgets with others.
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Add a budgets widget to dashboard to monitor budget utilization.
Required permissions
- Attributions Manager, Budgets Manager, Cloud Analytics
Access budgets
To access Budgets, select Governance from the top navigation bar, and then select Budgets.
You can filter budgets by their properties.
Edit budget permissions
A budget is visible only to those with whom the owner has shared it. See Share budgets: Summary for quick reference.
Users with the Admin role can bulk edit permissions of budgets.
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Select the checkboxes of the target budgets.
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Select Edit permissions.
You can change the permission of individual users or your whole team to Viewer, Editor, or remove their access. You can also transfer the ownership of a budget to an individual user.