Set monthly spend alerts
You can set up email alerts to monitor your organization’s monthly spending. These alerts notify designated recipients when spending reaches specified thresholds. The alerts automatically reset at the start of each monthly billing cycle. To set a spend alert:- Go to Settings > Spend alerts in the Pinecone console
- Click + Add Alert.
- Enter the dollar amount for the spend alert.
- Enter the email addresses to send the alert to. Organization owners are listed by default.
- Click Create.
- In the row of the spend alert you want to edit, click ellipsis (…) menu > Edit.
- Change the dollar amount and/or email addresses for the spend alert.
- Click Update.
Auto-spend spike alert: To protect from unexpected cost increases, Pinecone sends an alert when spending exceeds double your previous month’s invoice amount. While the alert threshold is fixed and the alert cannot be deleted, you can modify which email addresses receive the alert and enable or disable the alert notifications.
List by ID prefix
By using a hierarchical ID schema, you can retrieve records without performing a query. To do so, you can uselist to retrieve records by ID prefix, then use fetch to retrieve the records you need. This can reduce costs, because query consumes more RUs when scanning a larger namespace, while fetch consumes a fixed ratio of RUs to records retrieved.