Question

Is there a way to limit monthly spending?

Posted on December 25, 2024
Monitoring
Asked by Hampternt

I want to make sure that i dont accidentally do something which makes the bill sky rocket, is there a way to put a limit on how much resource or money a project can spend before it shuts down? or something similar to that.

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KFSys

Site Moderator

• December 27, 2024

Accepted Answer

Heya,

DigitalOcean does not currently offer an automated way to cap your usage and shut down your services once you reach a specific billing level.

What I personally do is to set up billing alerts to notify me when my spending reaches a certain threshold. You can set those thresholds pretty low so that you would get notified early.

You can also write a shell script to shutdown your Droplets so that you could do that quickly in case that you get an alert. You can use the doctl CLI to do that:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/droplet-action/shutdown/

The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.