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

Example

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

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.

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.

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

Example

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

Resource

New Resource Digest

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

Example

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

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