# Cost monitoring

A step of the [Cloud application](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application) tree on Gradus, in the Observability area: Logs, metrics, traces, alerts.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/cost-monitoring

Tag resources by service, track spend per environment and alert when a budget is about to be exceeded.

Usually comes after: [Distributed tracing](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/distributed-tracing).

## Prompt for your AI assistant

```
Add cost allocation tags to all cloud resources in the infrastructure code, set up a budget per environment and alert when projected spend exceeds it.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/llms.txt