I need to improve my AWS alerting system. We had a daily alert set up, but we recently faced a huge spike in CloudWatch log ingestion that resulted in thousands of dollars in charges within just 24 hours! I know AWS billing data updates with a delay, but the usage data is available almost in real-time. Is there a reason that cost monitoring tools don't utilize this usage data for real-time alerts? If there are existing products that do this—especially open-source or self-hosted options—I would love to hear your recommendations. Thanks!
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You can definitely set up CloudWatch or EventBridge alerts for sudden spikes in log ingestion or other resources. If you route those alerts through SNS or webhooks into something like SIGNL4, you'll get real-time notifications. It's much quicker than relying on the AWS billing updates!
Thank you! I didn’t realize Signl4 was an option.