Monitor expenses

This checklist item will guide you through setting up your organization's payments for resources.

After you are done creating a billing account, your personal account balance will be zero by default. We recommend monitoring and topping up your account balance so that it always stays positive.

If you fail to top up your account on time and run into arrears, your use of Yandex Cloud services may be suspended. For more information, see Billing cycle.

Top up your personal accountTop up your personal account

You can monitor your balance in Yandex Cloud Billing:

• Your balance automatically reduces as you consume resources. You can view your usage history on the usage details page.
• Your balance increases when you top up your account. The top-up record is logged to the payment history.

1. In Yandex Cloud Billing under Billing accounts, select the billing account.
2. Click Top up account.
3. Enter the payment amount and click Top up account.
4. Enter your card details and click Pay. We accept Visa and MasterCard.

Your payment will be processed in real time and completed within 15 minutes.

Configure notificationsConfigure notifications

To manage costs in Yandex Cloud, configure notifications using budgets.

Available budget types:

• Cost: Notification is sent when the cost of resources, without discounts applied, exceeds a specified usage limit.
• Due and payable: Notification is sent when the cost of resources, with discounts and active promo codes applied, exceeds a specified usage limit.
• Balance: Notification is sent when the personal account balance falls below a specified threshold.

Create a budgetCreate a budget

1. In Yandex Cloud Billing under Billing accounts, select the billing account.

2. Go to the Budgets page and click Create budget.

   1. Enter the budget name.

   2. Select Budget type.

   3. Set Budget amount:

      • For the Cost or Due and payable type, specify the total usage cost.
      • For the Balance type, specify the account balance.

   4. For the Cost and Due and payable types, select a budget tracking period:

      • If you selected Custom as the tracking period type, set the budget start date. The start date is the first day of the month.
      • Set the budget end date. The end date defines when the budget stops tracking usage or the account balance and sending notifications. The end date is the last day of the month. It must be within five years of the current date.

   5. Select the users to notify.

   6. For the Cost and Due and payable types, define the budget scope. You can select individual clouds, folders, and services to include in a set budget. By default, data is collected from all the clouds, folders, and services that the selected billing account has access to.

   7. Set at least one utilization threshold to trigger notifications. You can specify a threshold as a percentage or a cash value and select the users to receive notifications. A budget can have multiple thresholds.

   Note

   Users listed in the General information section will receive notifications when each specified threshold is exceeded. Users listed when setting a threshold will only receive a notification when that specific threshold is reached.

   If several budget thresholds are reached at the same time, users will receive a single notification.

3. After filling in all the fields, click Create. This will create a budget.

Monitor your payment historyMonitor your payment history

You can view the full history of payments to your personal account on the Payment history page or in Yandex Balance. The tracking method depends on your legal status (billing account type).
Payment receipt information is generated by Yandex Balance (to learn more, see the Yandex Balance documentation).

Individuals can view the full history of payments on the Payment history page.

All payments are arranged chronologically with the earliest payment displayed at the very bottom.

To filter the payments, set the date range. The results will be shown in a table.

The payment history contains aggregate data on all services. Detailed information about the services rendered is available on the Usage details page.