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# Monitoring & Notifications

Learn what Noros can alert you about, who sets each kind of alert, and how alerts reach you.

Noros watches your cloud spend and tells you when something needs your attention. Alerts come in two kinds, and the difference decides who configures them and where they land.

| Kind                    | Who sets it              | Where it goes                               |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------- |
| **Organization alerts** | Your root user only      | A shared Slack channel                      |
| **Your own alerts**     | Any user, for themselves | Your email, a Slack direct message, or both |

The two are independent. Turning on an organization alert does not subscribe you personally, and your own alerts do not affect anyone else.

## Your Own Alerts

Open **Monitoring Settings** from the Noros sidebar. Everything here applies to you alone.

### Budget alerts

Each budget you can see is listed with its amount, its period, its cost type, and its cloud provider, for example `$40,000 monthly, Unblended, AWS`.

For each one:

* Use **Alert at** to add the percentages you want to hear about. Add as many as you need, and remove one by clicking its **x**. A budget with no percentages set raises nothing.
* Turn on **Email**, **Slack DM**, or both. With neither on, you receive nothing for that budget.

Your percentages and delivery choices are yours. Another user watching the same budget can set different ones.

### Alert types

Three further alerts can be turned on, each delivered by email, Slack DM, or both.

| Alert                         | What it tells you                                                           |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Cost anomalies**            | HIGH and CRITICAL cost spikes, dips, and unexpected changes. Checked daily. |
| **Commitment alerts**         | Low commitment utilization and upcoming expirations. Checked daily.         |
| **Reshaping recommendations** | Rightsizing and reshaping opportunities to reduce cost. Checked daily.      |

### Cost convention

Choose how Noros presents costs in its chat answers by default: **Unblended**, **Amortized**, or **Unblended and Amortized**. Unblended is the default.

This setting changes how Noros talks to you. It does not change your alerts.

## Organization Alerts

Organization alerts cover the same ground as your own, but they post to one shared Slack channel so a whole team sees them at once.

Only your root user can set them, under **Settings**, then **Notifications**. If you do not see that tab, you are not a root user, and your own alerts in Monitoring Settings are what you can control.

Two things to know about them:

* **Slack is the only delivery option.** There is no email option for organization alerts.
* **Nothing can be enabled until a Slack channel is chosen.** Every alert stays blocked until then, with a prompt to choose one.

See [Integrations](/account-management/integrations.md) for connecting your Slack workspace and choosing that channel.

## Where Alerts Appear In Noros

In-app notifications are always on. Monitoring alerts appear in the sidebar, and the notification bell carries anything else.

The notification panel keeps a history of what has been sent, so you can review alerts you missed.

## Managing Alerts By Chat

You can change your preferences by asking Noros instead of using the settings screen:

* "Show me my current notification settings"
* "Send my alerts to Slack"
* "Enable both email and Slack notifications"
* "Notify me immediately when a cost anomaly is detected"


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