Budget alerts
Get an overview of your budgets and track your spending against budgets
Read time 1 minuteLast updated a month ago
Use budget alerts for these purposes:
- Monitor your data usage of Unity Gaming Services
- Control your spend for your organization against a defined budget
Budget
A budget is a monthly spending limit that you set for selected services across all projects in an organization. To regularly monitor spending, define alerts for specific thresholds.Important
Budgets are only for notification purposes. When you reach your budget, services aren't turned off and continue to be billed at their applicable rates.
Alerts
Use alerts to control monthly spending and adjust your spending and usage. Alerts inform you when you're approaching a budget threshold or a free-tier limit. Choose a tool for your alerts:- The notification tray in the Unity Cloud Dashboard
- Slack
Important
Budget usage may take up to a day to be reported. This delay affects the calculated spend during the budget period. Budget alert notifications may be delayed.