Platform & DevOps·What the platform costs
a job that was accidentally left running was flagged on day two rather than found in the invoice five weeks later.
Cost anomaly detection
Also calledbudget alert, spend anomaly, cost alerting
Automated monitoring for unexpected changes in spend, alerting on a deviation rather than on a threshold. The billing feedback loop is otherwise measured in weeks, which is long enough for a mistake to become a significant number. Routing the alert to the team that owns the resource rather than to finance is what turns it from a report into a fix.