Alerts & Notifications

Configure where Quper sends cost anomaly alerts, budget notifications, and governance reports.

Quper sends notifications for cost anomalies, budget breaches, governance policy violations, and scheduled reports. You can configure where these alerts go — email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or a custom webhook.

Notification channels

Email

Email notifications are enabled by default for all users. Each user receives alerts for events relevant to their role and team.

To configure email preferences:

1. Go to Settings → Notifications → Email
2. Select which event types you want to receive email notifications for
3. Set the digest frequency — immediate, daily digest, or weekly digest

Slack

Connect Quper to your Slack workspace to receive real-time cost alerts in any channel.

Setup:

1. Go to Settings → Notifications → Slack
2. Click Connect Slack
3. Authorise the Quper Slack app in your workspace
4. Select the default channel for Quper notifications
5. Click Save

You can configure different alert types to route to different channels — for example, Critical anomalies to #incidents and weekly governance reports to #finops.

Microsoft Teams

Connect Quper to Microsoft Teams to receive alerts in any Teams channel.

Setup:

1. Go to Settings → Notifications → Microsoft Teams
2. Click Add Webhook
3. In Microsoft Teams, go to your target channel → Connectors → Incoming Webhook
4. Create a new webhook and copy the webhook URL
5. Paste the URL into Quper and click Save

Custom Webhook

Send Quper notifications to any endpoint that accepts HTTP POST requests — useful for integrating with PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Jira, or your own internal systems.

Setup:

1. Go to Settings → Notifications → Webhooks
2. Click Add Webhook
3. Enter your endpoint URL
4. Select the event types to send to this endpoint
5. Optionally add authentication headers
6. Click Test Webhook to verify the connection, then Save

Quper sends webhook payloads as JSON. The payload schema is documented in the API reference.

Notification event types

Configure which events trigger notifications and at what severity level:

Event	Description
Anomaly detected	A new cost anomaly has been detected (configurable by severity: Critical, High, Medium, Low)
Anomaly resolved	A previously detected anomaly has returned to baseline
Budget threshold reached	Spend has crossed a configured budget alert threshold (e.g. 70%, 90%, 100%)
Budget exceeded	Spend has exceeded the budget cap for the period
Tag policy violation	A new untagged resource was detected that violates a governance policy
Governance report	Weekly governance score and compliance summary
Recommendation available	Vidura AI has surfaced a new high-impact recommendation (configurable by savings threshold)

Alert routing rules

You can route different notification types to different channels. For example:

• Critical and High anomalies → Slack #finops-alerts + PagerDuty webhook
• Budget threshold alerts → Email to budget owners
• Weekly governance report → Slack #finops + email to finance stakeholders
• New recommendations over $1,000/mo savings → Email to FinOps lead

To configure routing rules:

1. Go to Settings → Notifications → Routing Rules
2. Click Create Rule
3. Select the event type and severity filter
4. Choose the destination channel
5. Optionally filter by team, cloud provider, or spend threshold
6. Click Save

Notification limits

• Quper will not send more than 1 notification per anomaly per hour to prevent alert fatigue during active incidents
• Budget threshold alerts are sent once per threshold crossing — you will not receive repeated alerts at the same threshold level until the next budget period
• A maximum of 10 webhook endpoints can be configured per workspace

FAQs

Can I snooze alerts for a specific resource? Yes. From any anomaly alert, click Snooze to suppress notifications for that resource for a defined period (1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours, or 7 days). The anomaly remains visible in the Anomalies feed — only notifications are suppressed.

Can different team members receive different alerts? Yes. Each user can configure their personal notification preferences in Profile → Notifications. Workspace-wide routing rules set by Admins are applied in addition to personal preferences.

How do I notify a specific person when their team's budget is breached? Assign budget owners when creating a budget in Govern → Cost Governance → Budgets. Budget owners receive notifications automatically when their budget thresholds are crossed, regardless of their general notification settings.