Add budget

Overview

The Add budget form lets you create a new budget for tracking cloud spending against a defined limit. Open it by clicking + Add budget on the Budgets page.

To create a budget, you need the Access FinOps management permission and access to the projects you want to include in the budget scope.

Content on this page

The form contains the following fields:

• Name — A unique name for the budget.
• Type — The budget type. Select Expiring for a one-time budget with a fixed end date, or Recurrent for a budget that resets automatically on a regular schedule. Cannot be changed after the budget is created.
• Period — Visible only for recurrent budgets. Sets how often the budget resets: Monthly, Quarterly, or Yearly. Cannot be changed after the budget is created.
• Start date — The date the budget period begins.
  • For expiring budgets: set year, month, and day. Must be before the end date. Can be changed after creation.
  • For recurrent budgets: set based on the selected period (year and month for Monthly; year and quarter for Quarterly; year for Yearly). Can not be changed after creation.
• End date — Visible only for expiring budgets. The date the budget period ends.
• Budget amount — The spending limit for this budget in the company’s currency.
• Scope — Filters that define which cloud costs are tracked by this budget. You can filter by any combination of:
  • Projects — visible at company level only.
  • Services
  • Cloud providers
  • Locations
  • Data sources — visible at company level only. Filters by billing origin: the built-in emma source (your emma-provisioned resources) or an external cloud billing account (AWS, Azure, or GCP) connected on the Import page.

Actions that you can perform on this page

• Create budget — Click Create budget to save the new budget. The button is disabled if any field fails validation.
• Cancel — Click Cancel or close the form to discard changes and return to the Budgets page.