Budgets

Cost monitoring tells you what you spent. A budget tells Radar what you meant to spend, so it can warn you while the month is still running. Budgets live under Radar → Snowflake → Budget or Radar → BigQuery → Budget.

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Set a budget

You can budget:

• the whole account,
• one Snowflake warehouse or one BigQuery project,
• a usage group.

The budget table lists an account row, All warehouses (account) on Snowflake or All projects (account) on BigQuery, and one row per warehouse or project. Each row shows month-to-date spend, a usage bar, its monthly budget, and a status such as 36% in budget or 270% over budget.

1. Type a monthly amount in a row’s budget field and confirm it.
2. Clear the field to remove that budget.

A warehouse or project you have budgeted stays in the table even if it stops appearing in recent spend, marked as not seen recently, so a budget never disappears silently.

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Distribute a total across warehouses or projects

If you think in terms of one monthly number for the account, use Distribute budgets:

1. Enter the monthly total.
2. Choose how to split it: Distribute equally across warehouses or projects, or By historical spend using the last 30 days.
3. Adjust any of the proposed allocations inline. Radar flags an allocation that is already below that warehouse’s or project’s month-to-date spend.
4. Apply. The allocations are saved together as one change.

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Read the chart

The Budget vs Actuals chart plots cumulative spend, which resets each month, against your monthly budget. The gap between the two lines is what you have left. Filter the chart to a single warehouse, project, or usage group, or to all of them, and change the window (this month, last month, 3 or 6 months, 7 or 30 days). The budget line follows the budget that was actually in force at the time, so changing a budget mid-month shows up as a step rather than quietly rewriting the past.

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Budget alerts

When a budget is set, Radar watches it on the daily cost run and alerts:

• once when spend crosses the warning threshold, 80% of the budget by default;
• once when it crosses 100%.

Each target alerts at most once per threshold per calendar month, and crossing both thresholds between runs sends only the higher one. Editing or removing a budget re-arms its alerts for the rest of the month. These are the Snowflake Monthly Budget and BigQuery Monthly Budget alerts. Both are on by default. Alerts are delivered to the destinations you already configured for Data Alerts.