Integrating CloudSpend with Site24x7

To integrate your cost accounts in CloudSpend with Site24x7:

1. Select the Cost Accounts tab.
2. In the new Cost Accounts page that opens, click +Add Account. You'll be redirected to CloudSpend.
3. In the new Integrate Account page that opens, provide a Display Name of the account to be integrated.
4. Select AWS as the Public Cloud Provider.
5. Select Site24x7 Account as your Access Type.
6. Select the Site24x7 account to be integrated with CloudSpend from the Choose Site24x7 Account drop-down.
7. Enter the Role ARN.
8. Choose the account you'd like to integrate with Site24x7. By integrating the account, you can view the account details under the Cloud tab and all the budget-related alarms in the Alarms tab. If you're a Site24x7 user, you will be able to acknowledge the alarms or assign the technician accordingly.
9. Toggle the Integrate Billing and Cost Management option to Yes. 
10. Select the Account Type.
11. Enter the name of the report from AWS from which you'd like to obtain the bill details.
12. Configure a date to start the bill processing process.
13. Click Save to add the integration.

Within a few minutes, the integrated account will be listed under the Cost Accounts page in Site24x7.

For MSP Admin

For integration, there will be an MSP Customer drop-down right above the Choose Site24x7 Account drop-down. Upon selecting an MSP customer, AWS accounts associated with that customer will be filtered. Only one MSP customer can be selected at a time.

After adding the account using the drop-down, the cost account will get integrated to the respective MSP customer in Site24x7.

To integrate your business units in CloudSpend with Site24x7:

1. Select the Business Units tab.
2. Click Configure Business Units.
3. In the new Business Units page that opens, enter a Display Name.
4. Select the accounts of your preference from the Accounts list.
5. Select the associated tags.
6. Click Save.

Within a few minutes, the business unit will be listed on the Business Units page in Site24x7 web client.

For MSP Admin

Once you select the the account to be integrated, the corresponding MSP customers will be auto-selected.

You can integrate budgets with Site24x7 while creating them or by editing your existing budgets.

Creating budgets

To create a new budget:

1. Log in to CloudSpend.
2. Navigate to Budget>Configure Budget.
3. In the new page that opens, enter the Display Name for the new budget.
4. Click Create Policy for the Budget Policy (if you're creating a budget for the first time, since budget policies are reusable across multiple budgets).
5. In the Budget Policy dialog box, enter a display name for the new budget policy.
6. Set the resource type that you want to associate with the new policy. The new budget policy created will appear as a child monitor under the respective section in the CloudSpend tab in Site24x7.
7. Select the account for which you're creating the budget policy, or select the business unit for which you're creating the budget policy.
8. Select the cost type based on which the budget for cloud cost is set.
9. Pick the tags to be associated with the budget.
10. Click Save.
11. Select a specific period for the budget you're configuring.
12. Select how you'd like to view your budgets, as an amount or a percentage, using Units.
13. Set the Budget Value for your cloud cost. The budget value will either be an Amount or Percent depending on the unit chosen.
14. Choose the mode through which you'd like to get notified. Choosing Users will help you receive the notifications related to your budgets in the email address associated with your account. Choosing Site24x7 will send you notifications through the User Alert Groups. If choosing to get notified via Site24x7, you can also choose the IT automation and third-party service of your choice as well.
15. Click Save.

Once you save the budget, a corresponding monitor will be created in Site24x7. You can view it by navigating to Site24x7>AWS>CloudSpend.

For MSP Admin

While configuring the budget, you can pick specific notification modes for each of your customers.