> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://api-docs.sevalla.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create usage alert config > Create a usage alert config for the company or for a specific project. Each company can have one company-wide config plus one config per project. Configs are evaluated hourly against the current billing period. The highest matching trigger fires once per period and notifies the listed emails. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.sevalla.com/v3/openapi.json post /usage-alerts openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Sevalla API docs version: 1.0.0 servers: - url: https://api.sevalla.com/v3 security: - bearerAuth: [] paths: /usage-alerts: post: tags: - Usage Alerts summary: Create usage alert config description: >- Create a usage alert config for the company or for a specific project. Each company can have one company-wide config plus one config per project. Configs are evaluated hourly against the current billing period. The highest matching trigger fires once per period and notifies the listed emails. operationId: createUsageAlertConfigV3 requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: project_id: description: >- Project to scope the config to. Omit or pass null to create a company-wide config that tracks total spend across all projects. example: null anyOf: - type: string format: uuid pattern: >- ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$ - type: 'null' limit_usd: type: number minimum: 0.01 description: >- Spending limit in USD. Triggers fire as percentages of this value. example: 100 emails: minItems: 1 type: array items: type: string format: email pattern: >- ^(?!\.)(?!.*\.\.)([A-Za-z0-9_'+\-\.]*)[A-Za-z0-9_+-]@([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,}$ description: Email recipients notified when a trigger fires example: - billing@example.com triggers: minItems: 1 maxItems: 10 type: array items: type: object properties: percentage: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 100 description: >- Threshold expressed as a percentage of the spending limit example: 80 required: - percentage description: >- Threshold percentages of the limit. Up to 10 triggers per config. example: - percentage: 50 - percentage: 80 - percentage: 100 required: - limit_usd - emails - triggers additionalProperties: false responses: '201': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: id: type: string format: uuid pattern: >- ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$ description: Unique identifier for the usage alert config example: fb5e5168-4281-4bec-94c5-0d1584e9e657 company_id: type: string minLength: 1 description: Identifier of the company this config belongs to example: fb5e5168-4281-4bec-94c5-0d1584e9e657 project_id: anyOf: - type: string format: uuid pattern: >- ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$ - type: 'null' description: >- Identifier of the project this config is scoped to. When null, the config applies to total company spend across all projects. example: null limit_usd: type: number minimum: 0.01 description: >- Spending limit in USD that triggers fire as percentages of. Must be greater than zero. example: 100 emails: minItems: 1 type: array items: type: string format: email pattern: >- ^(?!\.)(?!.*\.\.)([A-Za-z0-9_'+\-\.]*)[A-Za-z0-9_+-]@([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,}$ description: Email recipients notified when a trigger fires example: - billing@example.com triggers: minItems: 1 maxItems: 10 type: array items: type: object properties: id: type: string format: uuid pattern: >- ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$ description: Unique identifier for the trigger example: fb5e5168-4281-4bec-94c5-0d1584e9e657 percentage: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 100 description: >- Threshold expressed as a percentage of the spending limit. Fires once per billing period. example: 80 last_fired_at: anyOf: - type: string format: date-time pattern: >- ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$ - type: 'null' description: >- Timestamp when this trigger last fired, in ISO 8601 format. Null if it has not fired yet. example: null required: - id - percentage - last_fired_at additionalProperties: false description: >- A threshold percentage that fires a notification when reached description: >- Threshold percentages of the limit. The highest matching trigger fires once per billing period. Up to 10 triggers per config. created_at: type: string format: date-time pattern: >- ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$ description: Timestamp when the config was created, in ISO 8601 format example: '2025-01-30T00:00:00.000Z' updated_at: type: string format: date-time pattern: >- ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$ description: >- Timestamp when the config was last modified, in ISO 8601 format example: '2025-01-30T00:00:00.000Z' required: - id - company_id - project_id - limit_usd - emails - triggers - created_at - updated_at additionalProperties: false '400': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: message: type: string description: Error message example: Bad request status: type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: HTTP status code example: 400 data: type: object properties: code: description: Error tracking code for support reference example: err-abc-123 type: string message: description: Additional error details or instructions example: >- If you need assistance, please contact support and provide this error code. type: string additionalProperties: false required: - message - status additionalProperties: false '401': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: message: type: string description: Error message example: Unauthorized status: type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: HTTP status code example: 401 data: type: object properties: code: description: Error tracking code for support reference example: err-abc-123 type: string message: description: Additional error details or instructions example: >- If you need assistance, please contact support and provide this error code. type: string additionalProperties: false required: - message - status additionalProperties: false '403': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: message: type: string description: Error message example: Forbidden status: type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: HTTP status code example: 403 data: type: object properties: code: description: Error tracking code for support reference example: err-abc-123 type: string message: description: Additional error details or instructions example: >- If you need assistance, please contact support and provide this error code. type: string additionalProperties: false required: - message - status additionalProperties: false '429': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: message: type: string description: Error message example: Too many requests status: type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: HTTP status code example: 429 data: type: object properties: code: description: Error tracking code for support reference example: err-abc-123 type: string message: description: Additional error details or instructions example: >- If you need assistance, please contact support and provide this error code. type: string additionalProperties: false required: - message - status additionalProperties: false '500': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: message: type: string description: Error message example: Internal Server Error status: type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: HTTP status code example: 500 data: type: object properties: code: description: Error tracking code for support reference example: err-abc-123 type: string message: description: Additional error details or instructions example: >- If you need assistance, please contact support and provide this error code. type: string additionalProperties: false required: - message - status additionalProperties: false components: securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- API key authentication. Pass your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. ````