Configure remaining quota alerts - Expenses and Costs - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

When you configure remaining quota alerts for a resource plan, the system automatically sends notifications by email, and internal message if the remaining quota falls below a predefined threshold. This helps you adjust your resource configuration or purchase new resource plans, preventing service interruptions from resource exhaustion and controlling unexpected costs from pay-as-you-go billing.

How it works

Remaining quota alerts provide the following benefits:

Prevent resource shortages: When the remaining quota of a resource plan falls below the threshold, the system notifies you by SMS, email, or internal message. This gives you time to take action, such as purchasing a new resource plan or adjusting your usage strategy.
Reduce unexpected costs: With alerts, you can plan your resource usage in advance and avoid unexpected pay-as-you-go charges that occur when a resource plan is exhausted.
Ensure business continuity: For services that depend on resource plans, such as real-time computing and Edge Security Acceleration, alerts provide an early warning before resources are depleted, preventing the risk of service interruptions.

Limitations

Resource plans with an hourly or daily commitment period do not support remaining quota alerts.
Resource plans with a monthly or non-fixed commitment period support remaining quota alerts.
- Monthly (including calendar month, dynamic month, and monthly free tier plans): You receive one alert per billing period when the remaining quota reaches the specified percentage, and another alert when the quota is exhausted.
- Non-fixed commitment period: During the validity period, you receive one alert when the remaining quota reaches the specified percentage, and another alert when the quota is exhausted.
Disabling unified alerts: If you disable the unified alert setting, alerts for any new resource plans you purchase will not be enabled by default. You will need to enable them manually.

Procedure

Log on to the Resource Plan page, and in the upper-right corner, click Set Remaining Quota Alert.
Enable or disable alerts and set the remaining quota percentage.
- To set alerts for all resource plans: In the Set Remaining Quota Alert Uniformly section, toggle Enable Alert for all resource plans and select a Remaining Quota Proportion.
- To set an alert for a single resource plan: In the alert list, find the resource plan by its name, toggle Enable Alert for that plan, and select a Remaining Quota Proportion.
Important
Resource plans in the list use their individual alert settings. New resource plans that you purchase will use the settings configured in the Set Remaining Quota Alert Uniformly section.
Configure alert notifications.
1. Basic receiving management
  
  On the basic receiving management page in the Message Center, under Message Type, select Product expiration notification and choose your notification methods (internal message and email).
2. Chatbot recipient management (optional)
  
  On the chatbot recipient management page in the Message Center, you can set up a webhook integration to send remaining quota alerts to a chatbot. Supported platforms include DingTalk, WeCom, Lark, and Slack. The Product expiration notification message type includes alerts for remaining quota, quota exhaustion, upcoming expiration, and expiration.