Product Guides•stable•Updated 2026-05-15

Guardrails — Budget

Review global budget state and edit the daily budget only.

What this page is for

The Budget tab shows the workspace budget posture and provides one focused control: editing the daily budget. It deliberately redirects deeper governance work to Budget Owners and Caps.

Who uses it

  • Finance users
  • Workspace admins
  • Platform owners

What you see

  • Global budget status from usage status: ok, at-risk, over, or no budget.
  • Daily budget from dailyBudgetCents.
  • Monthly budget from monthlyBudgetCents, shown as a derived value.
  • Caps summary with near and reached counts.
  • Governance links to Budget Owners and Caps.

What you can do

  • Edit dailyBudgetUsd.
  • Save the daily budget.
  • Reset local edits.
  • Clear the field to disable the daily budget.
  • Open Budget Owners or Caps while preserving current query parameters.

Permissions and safety

  • Editing is disabled when the page is read-only.
  • Editing is also disabled when canEditBudgets is false.
  • Read-only users can still inspect the budget status and governance links.

Operational notes

  • The tab does not calculate the status; it reads data.usage.status.
  • Valid input accepts empty, integers, one decimal, two decimals, and comma decimals.
  • Invalid values include negative amounts, text, more than two decimals, and leading decimal formats such as .50.
  • Only dailyBudgetCents is sent to the backend.
  • Successful saves invalidate the policies query and refetch fresh data.

What this page is not for

  • Editing monthly budgets.
  • Editing caps.
  • Editing budget owners.
  • Showing detailed consumption charts.
  • Explaining spend drivers.

Recommended workflow

  1. Confirm that you are in the right workspace and environment.
  2. Use filters before changing configuration or interpreting results.
  3. Open the detail drawer when available.
  4. Check related objects such as alerts, approvals, costs, policies, runs, deliveries, or audit entries.
  5. Apply changes only when the impact is clear.
  6. Re-check the page after the backend refreshes.
  7. Export or copy IDs when you need to escalate.

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