Kestrel Labs / Production / Budget alerts
Budget alerts
Monitoring only · simulated alerts · spend synced Oct 18, 2026, 14:22 UTC
Guardrail risk
Severe
1 budget is over the limit.
8 live budgets · 7 monitored · 1 paused · 1 archived. Risk is the worst state of any monitored budget.
Workspace spend, October 2026
$8,863.79
Headroom under Workspace monthly
$6,136.21
Prepaid credit balance
$7,295.10
Each charge counts once, however many budgets cover it. Credits pay for charges; they never raise a budget limit or reduce the spend a budget measures.
Budget horizon · October 2026 · % of limit
Hover a lane to read every budget on one day
Code review agent
Code review agent
· monthly
188%
Over limit
Sonnet weekly cap
Claude Sonnet 4.5
· weekly
96%
Ends Oct 18
Support copilot
Support copilot
· monthly
125%
Limit Oct 26
Nightly summaries daily
Nightly summaries
· daily
89%
daily
Development keys
Development
· monthly
149%
Limit Oct 21
Workspace monthly
Entire workspace
· monthly
104%
Limit Oct 30
OpenAI provider
OpenAI
· monthly
93%
Holds
Search and retrieval
Search and retrieval
· monthly
84%
Not monitored
Observed
Forecast, with 80% range
100% of limit
Expected to pass the limit
Period reset
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Budgets
Every budget with its thresholds, spend and forecast. Select one to see why it is in its state, edit its thresholds, see what drives its spend, or pause, archive and delete it.
Showing 8 of 8 live budgets
Spent
Forecast to period end
Limit
Even pace today
Warning
Critical
Forecast condition
Code review agent
3
Code review agent
· Monthly
· Jonah
$3,558 of $3,400
$158 over
105%
188%
period end
Sonnet weekly cap
2
Claude Sonnet 4.5
· Weekly
· Jonah
$3,058 of $3,200
$141 left
96%
96%
ends today
Support copilot
2
Support copilot
· Monthly
· Amara
$3,168 of $4,500
$1,331 left
70%
125%
limit Oct 26
Nightly summaries daily
1
Nightly summaries
· Daily
· Lena
$106 of $120
$13 left
89%
—
daily
Development keys
1
Development
· Monthly
· Tomás
$133 of $160
$26 left
84%
149%
limit Oct 21
Workspace monthly
2
Entire workspace
· Monthly
· Noor
$8,863 of $15,000
$6,136 left
59%
104%
limit Oct 30
OpenAI provider
OpenAI
· Monthly
· Noor
$1,368 of $2,600
$1,231 left
53%
93%
period end
Search and retrieval
Search and retrieval
· Monthly
· Priya
$862 of $1,800
$937 left
48%
84%
period end
Measures all model charges in the workspace in October 2026 (UTC). Resets on the 1st at 00:00 UTC.
Overlaps with
Support copilot
Code review agent
Sonnet weekly cap
and 4 more: separate controls over shared charges, each charge counted once in workspace spend.
Spent
$8,863
of $15,000
Remaining
$6,136
14 days left
Used
59.1%
57% of period gone
Forecast
104%
$15,657 at period end
Spend
Forecast, 80% range
Even pace
Alert raised (faded once resolved)
Alerts in October 2026
Why this is warning
Observed. $8,863.79 metered through the 14:22 UTC sync: 59.1% of the limit with 57% of the period gone (+4% ahead of even pace).
Versus last period. $6,430 at the same point of September 2026, so this period is +38%.
Velocity. $546.31/day over the last 7 days vs $429.70/day in the 28 days before (+27%, accelerating).
Forecast. $8,863 so far + $6,793 expected over 13 more days = $15,657 (80% range $14,486–$16,828). Expected to pass the limit on Oct 30, possibly as early as Oct 28.
Forecast method: the last 14 days' average with each weekday's share of the last 28 days removed ($511.64 per average day), multiplied back by each remaining day's weekday factor. The 80% range adds ±1.28 standard deviations of the 14-day residuals. A demonstration model, not a billing promise.
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Alert center
Alerts come from the evaluation engine, never from fixed badges. Investigate the condition and the spend behind it, then acknowledge it. Acknowledging records an owner; it does not resolve the condition.
7 active, unacknowledged alerts
Warning
Active
Spend reaches 80% ($96)
Nightly summaries daily
Nightly summaries
· Oct 18 (daily)
Still active: $106 spent, at or above $96. It clears if the limit or threshold changes so spend is below it, or when Oct 18 ends at Oct 19, 00:00 UTC. Alerts are monitoring only; no request was blocked.
Triggered
Oct 18, 12:59 UTC
Threshold
$96
80% of $120
Spend at trigger
$96
Spend now
$106
89% of limit
What drove spend on Oct 18
$106 in this scope that day (through the sync), against $101 on an average Sunday of the previous four weeks (+5%). The largest increase was Claude Sonnet 4.5 (+$3). This shows where spend rose, not why.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
$73 / $69
GPT-4o
$24 / $22
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$5 / $5
DeepSeek V3
$3 / $4
Bar: trigger day · line: typical Sunday
Notifications
Routing as configured at trigger time
In-app
Shown in the alert center.
Shown in app
Would be sent immediately. Not sent in this demo.
Would send · not sent
Preview
Slack
Not selected for this budget.
Not routed
Webhook
Channel turned off.
Not routed
Previews use this alert’s real values. No email, Slack message or webhook leaves this demo.
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Risk insights
Conditions worth a decision, each from an explicit rule. Observed facts and suggested actions are kept apart, and no cause is claimed that the data cannot show.
4 act now
4 watch
1 context
Act now
Support copilot is forecast to pass its limit on Oct 26
Observed
Projected $5,619 against $4,500; 80% range $4,552–$6,687.
Even the low end of the range is above the limit.
Suggested
Review what is driving the run rate before the crossing date, or set expectations with the budget owner.
Rule: Expected period-end spend (weekday-adjusted run rate) ≥ limit.
Act now
Code review agent is over its limit
Observed
$3,558 of $3,400 (105%) in October 2026.
$158 over, with 14 days left in the period.
Suggested
Decide whether the overrun is expected. Raise the limit with a note, or investigate the cost drivers. Volurynt does not block requests.
Rule: Spend in the current period ≥ limit.
Act now
Development keys is forecast to pass its limit on Oct 21
Observed
Projected $238 against $160; 80% range $226–$250.
Even the low end of the range is above the limit.
Suggested
Review what is driving the run rate before the crossing date, or set expectations with the budget owner.
Rule: Expected period-end spend (weekday-adjusted run rate) ≥ limit.
Act now
New critical alert on Sonnet weekly cap
Observed
Spend reaches 90% ($2,880) at Oct 18, 06:44 UTC.
Suggested
Acknowledge it so the team knows someone is on it. Acknowledging does not resolve the condition.
Rule: Critical or exceeded alert in the last 24 hours, not acknowledged.
Watch
Workspace monthly is forecast to pass its limit on Oct 30
Observed
Projected $15,657 against $15,000; 80% range $14,486–$16,828.
The low end of the range stays under the limit, so this is likely but not certain.
Suggested
Review what is driving the run rate before the crossing date, or set expectations with the budget owner.
Rule: Expected period-end spend (weekday-adjusted run rate) ≥ limit.
Watch
Support copilot spend is accelerating
Observed
$220/day over the last 7 days vs $139/day before (+57%).
Suggested
Check the cost drivers for a new workload, a longer prompt or a model change.
Rule: Last 7 days' daily average ≥ 1.2 × the 28 days before.
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Coverage
Which budgets measure each slice of this month’s spend. Budgets overlap by design; every charge still counts once in workspace spend.
Workspace spend, October 2026
$8,863.79
Every charge counted once
Monitored by at least one budget
100.0%
$8,863 of $8,863
Not monitored
$0
Paused budgets add nothing
Sum of monthly budget spend
$17,093
193% of real spend: overlaps are measured more than once, so budget totals are never added up
Highlight a budget:
Claude Sonnet 4.5
GPT-4o
Gemini 2.5 Flash
DeepSeek V3
Project
Support copilot
$3,168
Code review agent
$3,558
Search and retrieval
$862
Nightly summaries
$1,274
Model
$7,030
$1,368
$253
$211
$8,863
Select a cell to see its environment split and every budget that measures it. Paused budgets are not counted as coverage. Simulated charges are excluded from this map.
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Notifications
Where alerts go and at which severity. In-app alerts appear on this page; email, Slack and webhook deliveries are previewed and never sent in this template.
In-app
Always available
Alerts appear on this page and in the alert center for workspace members.
Budget channels
Budget
In-app
Slack
Webhook
Workspace monthly
Support copilot
Code review agent
Sonnet weekly cap
OpenAI provider
Development keys
Nightly summaries daily
Search and retrieval
A channel that is off delivers nothing, whatever a budget selects. Changes are recorded in each budget’s history.
Last 7 days through this routing · 14 alerts
In-app
14 shown
11 messages
Slack
5 messages
Webhook
0 messages
Counts replay the alerts raised in the last 7 days through each channel, the severity routing and each budget’s channel choice at the time. Email, Slack and webhook deliveries are previews only; nothing is sent.
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History
Every configuration change, alert transition and acknowledgement, derived from the same records as the current state, so the trail never contradicts it.
75 events
Oct 18 12:59
Warning threshold reached: Spend reaches 80% ($96)
Nightly summaries daily
Volurynt
Oct 18 06:44
Critical threshold reached: Spend reaches 90% ($2,880)
Sonnet weekly cap
Volurynt
Oct 18 00:00
Resolved: Spend reaches 80% ($96)
Nightly summaries daily
Volurynt
Oct 17 20:30
Warning threshold reached: Spend reaches 80% ($96)
Nightly summaries daily
Volurynt
Oct 17 18:05
Acknowledged: Spend reaches the $3,400 limit
Code review agent
Jonah Whitfield
Oct 17 08:20
Acknowledged: Spend reaches 75% ($2,400)
Sonnet weekly cap
Jonah Whitfield
Oct 17 05:42
Limit exceeded: Spend reaches the $3,400 limit
Code review agent
Volurynt
Oct 16 20:42
Warning threshold reached: Spend reaches 80% ($128)
Development keys
Volurynt
Oct 16 17:06
Warning threshold reached: Spend reaches 75% ($2,400)
Sonnet weekly cap
Volurynt
Oct 16 11:17
Critical threshold reached: Spend reaches 95% ($3,230)
Code review agent
Volurynt
Oct 16 09:10
Resolved: Spend reaches the $3,000 limit
Code review agent
Volurynt
Oct 16 09:10
Resolved: Spend reaches 95% ($2,850)
Code review agent
Volurynt
Oct 16 09:10
Code review agent limit $3,000 → $3,400
Code review agent
Jonah Whitfield
Oct 16 09:05
Acknowledged: Spend reaches 50% ($7,500)
Workspace monthly
Noor Kapoor