Hello Joshua, I'll try to help the best I can. I've added a question below, along with some answers too.
Questions: - Which feature did Google remove? What was this feature called and where was it shown in the GUI? I'm asking so that we can try to maybe do a feature request or see why it was removed. To answer your question, the alerts should be prompt unless there is an outage or some other exceptional circumstance. However, keep in mind that we do not have control over public communication channel delays such as SMS, email, etc... Double-checking in the GUI could tell you if it was already sent out or not. Delays can also happen if alerts have multiple conditions and one of them hasn't been met yet. See full article here[1] for more details about latency possibilities. If you're away from the computer, you have notification options here[2], called "channels". [1] https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/concepts-indepth#notification-latency [2] https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/support/notification-options#creating_channels On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 12:03:33 PM UTC-4 Joshua Smith wrote: > Once again last night, my wallet was saved when a runaway bot chewed up my > site’s whole daily spending limit. I got an email from a user, set up a > firewall rule, and goosed my budget to get things going again. > > I’m *very* concerned about Google’s decision to remove this feature. > Offering a cloud service that bills by usage without having a way to limit > the spend shifts an unreasonable amount of risk onto the subscriber. > > I’ve set up budget alerts, as suggested, but I’m concerned that: > > - What if my bill shoots up really fast? How quickly is this alert going > to go out? > > - What if I am away from the computer (remember when we used to be able to > leave our houses? good times… good times…)? > > I run this particular site as a not-for-profit social good. (It’s a site > that small town governments use to post their meetings.) I make *no* money > on it. > > I’d be perfectly happy to handle this with self-set quotas on something > other than dollars. For example, in my case the budget-buster is always > “Cloud Datastore Read Operations.” If I could set a cap on that one thing, > it’d give me the protection I need. > > -Joshua > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/f77ae31b-61bd-4251-bb5d-4809076b70fan%40googlegroups.com.
