Spend alerts
Spend alerts notify your organization's billing contacts and show an in-product banner when the estimated next invoice reaches a threshold you set. Spend alerts don't limit spending, stop usage, or prevent further charges.
Spend alerts are available to organizations on a monthly Pro plan that renews automatically. Legacy Buildkite Pipelines Pro plans are not supported.
Set up a spend alert
You need billing administration permissions to configure a spend alert.
To set up a spend alert:
- Select Settings > Billing.
- In the Spend Alert row, select Set spend alert.
- Select Enable spend alert.
- Enter an Invoice threshold (USD).
- Optional: select Add my email to billing contacts.
- Select Save spend alert.
To change the threshold or disable the alert, select Manage spend alert in the Spend Alert row.
How spend alerts work
When the estimate reaches the threshold, billing contacts receive an email and billing administrators see a banner. Buildkite sends one alert email per billing period. If no billing contact is configured when the threshold is first reached, no email is sent for that billing period, even if you add a contact later.
Invoice estimates are based on usage reported so far and can be delayed. The estimate shown when an alert is sent may differ from the final invoice.