diff --git a/content/en/cloud_cost_management/planning/budgets.md b/content/en/cloud_cost_management/planning/budgets.md
index 15bc39bc015..f28518769ab 100644
--- a/content/en/cloud_cost_management/planning/budgets.md
+++ b/content/en/cloud_cost_management/planning/budgets.md
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ You can add a budget to dashboards in two ways:
## Create an alert for your budget
-Learn how to [create a budget-based monitor][2].
+Create a [budget-based monitor][2] to alert when actual spend or forecasted spend is projected to exceed a percentage of the budget.
## View forecasts in budgets
diff --git a/content/en/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md b/content/en/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md
index fbd1483b33d..9dfb6b159cc 100644
--- a/content/en/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md
+++ b/content/en/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md
@@ -1,31 +1,32 @@
---
title: Cloud Cost Monitor
-description: "Monitor cost changes, thresholds, forecasts, and anomalies in your cloud costs."
+description: 'Monitor cost changes, thresholds, forecasts, and anomalies in your cloud costs.'
further_reading:
-- link: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-oci
- tag: Blog
- text: Manage and optimize your OCI costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management
-- link: "https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/?tab=aws#overview"
- tag: "Documentation"
- text: "Cloud Cost Management"
-- link: "/monitors/notify/"
- tag: "Documentation"
- text: "Configure your monitor notifications"
-- link: "/monitors/downtimes/"
- tag: "Documentation"
- text: "Schedule a downtime to mute a monitor"
-- link: "/monitors/status/"
- tag: "Documentation"
- text: "Consult your monitor status"
-- link: "https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ccm-cost-monitors/"
- tag: "Blog"
- text: "React quickly to cost overruns with Cost Monitors for Datadog Cloud Cost Management"
-- link: "https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/google-cloud-cost-management/"
- tag: "Blog"
- text: "Empower engineers to take ownership of Google Cloud costs with Datadog"
+ - link: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-oci
+ tag: Blog
+ text: Manage and optimize your OCI costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management
+ - link: 'https://docs.datadoghq.com/cloud_cost_management/?tab=aws#overview'
+ tag: 'Documentation'
+ text: 'Cloud Cost Management'
+ - link: '/monitors/notify/'
+ tag: 'Documentation'
+ text: 'Configure your monitor notifications'
+ - link: '/monitors/downtimes/'
+ tag: 'Documentation'
+ text: 'Schedule a downtime to mute a monitor'
+ - link: '/monitors/status/'
+ tag: 'Documentation'
+ text: 'Consult your monitor status'
+ - link: 'https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ccm-cost-monitors/'
+ tag: 'Blog'
+ text: 'React quickly to cost overruns with Cost Monitors for Datadog Cloud Cost Management'
+ - link: 'https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/google-cloud-cost-management/'
+ tag: 'Blog'
+ text: 'Empower engineers to take ownership of Google Cloud costs with Datadog'
---
## Overview
+
Cloud Cost Monitors help you proactively identify cost changes, and understand if you're projected to go over budget, so you can investigate the cause.
- Instantly view all your cost monitors and filter or search by team, service, tag, provider, or alert status.
@@ -48,13 +49,13 @@ Alternatively, you can set one up from [**Monitors** --> **New Monitor** --> **C
You can select from the following monitor types:
-| Monitor Type | Cost Metric-based | Purpose | Example |
-|--------------|-------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
-| Changes | Yes | Detect daily, weekly, or monthly cost changes. | Alert when the difference between today's cost and the week before is over 5%. |
+| Monitor Type | Cost Metric-based | Purpose | Example |
+| ------------ | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Changes | Yes | Detect daily, weekly, or monthly cost changes. | Alert when the difference between today's cost and the week before is over 5%. |
| Anomalies | Yes | Identify unusual or unexpected cost patterns.
Incomplete days are excluded from analysis to ensure accuracy. Anomaly monitors require at least 1 month of cloud cost data to evaluate since historical data is required to train the algorithm. | Alert if 3 days from the past 30 days show significant cost anomalies compared to historical data. |
-| Threshold | Yes | Alert when costs exceed a set value. | Set alerts when today's total cost exceeds $10,000. |
-| Forecast | Yes | Alert if forecasted costs will exceed a threshold. | Alert daily if the forecasted cost for this month is projected to exceed $500. |
-| Budget | No | Alert if costs exceed your [budget][7]. | Alert if the total cost for the month exceeds the budget of $10,000. |
+| Threshold | Yes | Alert when costs exceed a set value. | Set alerts when today's total cost exceeds $10,000. |
+| Forecast | Yes | Alert if forecasted costs exceeds a threshold. | Alert daily if the forecasted cost for this month is projected to exceed $500. |
+| Budget | No | Alert if actual or forecasted costs exceed your [budget][7]. | Alert if the forecasted month cost is projected to exceed 90% of the assigned $10,000 budget. |
### Specify which cost to track
@@ -63,12 +64,12 @@ You can select from the following monitor types:
Any cost type or metric reporting to Datadog is available for monitors. You can use custom metrics or observability metrics alongside a cost metric to monitor unit economics.
-| Step | Required | Default | Example |
-|-----------------------------------|----------|----------------------|---------------------|
-| Select the cost metric | Yes | All providers | `azure.cost.actual` |
-| Define the `filter by` | No | Nothing | `aws_product:s3` |
-| Group by | No | Nothing | `aws_availability_zone` |
-| Add observability metric | No | `system.cpu.user` | `aws.s3.all_requests` |
+| Step | Required | Default | Example |
+| ------------------------ | -------- | ----------------- | ----------------------- |
+| Select the cost metric | Yes | All providers | `azure.cost.actual` |
+| Define the `filter by` | No | Nothing | `aws_product:s3` |
+| Group by | No | Nothing | `aws_availability_zone` |
+| Add observability metric | No | `system.cpu.user` | `aws.s3.all_requests` |
Use the editor to define the cost types or exports.
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ For the **Cost Anomalies** monitor type, you can trigger an alert if the observe
The `agile` [anomaly algorithm][101] is used with two bounds and monthly seasonality.
[101]: /dashboards/functions/algorithms/
+
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab "Threshold" %}}
@@ -118,14 +120,16 @@ If you are using the **Cost Forecast** monitor type, you can trigger an alert wh
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab "Budget" %}}
-If you are using the **Budget** monitor type, you can trigger an alert when the cloud cost exceeds the budget you selected in the previous step.
+If you are using the **Budget** monitor type, you can trigger an alert when the actual or the forecasted cloud cost exceeds a percentage of the budget you selected in the previous step.
-| Step | Purpose | Values |
-|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
-| Granularity | Level of detail at which the cost is evaluated. | `overall` (total cost), `per_row` |
-| Threshold | Percentage of budget that is utilized to trigger the alert. | Number between 0 and 100 (%) |
-| Timeframe | Evaluation window used to assess if the threshold is breached. | `all_months`, `current_month` |
+| Step | Purpose | Values |
+| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
+| Evaluation basis | Whether the monitor compares actual spend or forecasted spend against the budget. | `actual`, `forecasted` |
+| Granularity | Level of detail at which the cost is evaluated. | `overall` (total cost), `per_row` |
+| Threshold | Percentage of budget that is utilized to trigger the alert. | Number between 0 and 100 (%) |
+| Timeframe | Evaluation window used to assess if the threshold is breached. | `all_months`, `current_month` |
+When you select **is forecasted to reach**, the monitor uses the same forecasting model as budget cards and the budget status page. Forecasts require at least 64 consecutive days of cost data — see [Forecasting][8] for details.
{{% /tab %}}
{{< /tabs >}}
@@ -163,3 +167,4 @@ You can also turn on **Audit Notifications** to alert the monitor creator and re
[5]: https://app.datadoghq.com/cost/explorer
[6]: /monitors/notify/
[7]: /cloud_cost_management/planning/budgets/
+[8]: /cloud_cost_management/planning/forecasting/