# Triggers

By leveraging triggers, you can automate responses to cost anomalies, ticket updates, and scheduled reports, ensuring timely and effective decision-making.

## **Core Triggers**

Core triggers detect critical events within OneLens, allowing you to automate workflows based on fundamental cost monitoring and anomaly detection mechanisms.

### **Anomaly Detection**

#### **1. Anomaly is Detected**

Activate workflows when an anomaly is identified. You can refine the trigger with conditions such as:

* **Anomaly Impact**: Cost Impact ($), Cost Impact (%)
* **Resource**: Account, Region, Service
* **Cost Center**: Cost Center, Category

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## **Example**

Automatically notify FinOps teams when unexpected cloud cost spikes are detected for critical services.
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### **Tickets**

#### **1. Tickets**

* **Ticket is Created/Updated**

  These allow you to trigger workflows when tickets are generated or modified. Conditions can be based on:

  * **Ticket**: Status, Category
    * **Recommendation**: Potential Savings, Effort Required
    * **Resource**: Name, Account, Region, Service, Tags
    * **Cost Center**: Cost Center, Category
    * **Policy**: Name, Category

#### **2. New Ticket Digest**

* **Daily**, **Weekly**, or **Monthly**\
  Use this to receive a digest report of all newly created tickets that meet your specified conditions.

#### **3. All Tickets Digest**

* **Daily**, **Weekly**, or **Monthly**\
  Generate a periodic report for all tickets — not just the new ones — filtered by your chosen parameters.

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## **Example**

* Trigger Slack alerts to engineering managers when high-effort, high-savings tickets are generated for their services.
* Auto-update Jira issues when the status of cost optimization tickets changes in OneLens.
* Send summarized reports of newly raised cost-saving opportunities to finance leads on a weekly basis.
* Share a complete digest of all ongoing optimization tickets with cross-functional teams for better visibility.
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### **Cost Alerts**

Automatically trigger workflows when account-level, service-level, or cost center-level cost reports are generated. These are not real-time alerts but scheduled **Cost Reports** that summarize key changes.

* **Account Wise**
  * Daily, Weekly, Monthly
* **Service Wise**
  * Daily, Weekly, Monthly
* **Cost Centre Wise**

  * Daily, Weekly, Monthly

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## **Example**

Route cost center-level reports to business unit heads for performance and variance analysis.
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### **Resource**

**New Resource Digest**

* **Daily**, **Weekly**, or **Monthly**\
  Start workflows based on discovery of newly created resources. Ideal for governance or security-related automation.

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## **Example**

Inform platform teams about newly launched resources to ensure tagging compliance and governance.
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