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title: Account level budgets
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/new-relic-one-pricing-billing/compute-budgets/account-level
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For organizations with multiple New Relic accounts, each with distinct CCU requirements, Compute Budgets provides per-account monitoring, visibility, and alerts to ensure accounts stay within their defined usage limits.

## Budget types by customer structure

The type of budgets you can create depends on your customer structure:

### For single-tenant customers

You can create **account level budgets** for individual accounts or groups of up to 5 accounts within your organization.

### For multi-tenant customers

**Managing organizations** can create two types of budgets:

-   **Organization level budgets**: Budgets for individual managed organizations
    -   One budget per organization
    -   One organization per budget
    -   Create multiple organization level budgets as needed

-   **Account level budgets**: Budgets for accounts within the managing organization (same functionality as single-tenant customers)

**Managed organizations** can't create budgets.

> #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
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> If you are part of a managing organization, you can create budgets for any managed organization under your customer hierarchy. Use the organization selector to choose the organization when creating an organization budget.

## Set up account level budgets

### Open Compute Budgets

1.  Go to **[one.newrelic.com](https://one.newrelic.com/)**.
2.  In the [user menu](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/general-account-settings/intro-account-settings), select **Administration** > **Compute Budgets**.

### Create a budget

In the **Functional budgets** section, select **Add a budget**.

> #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
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> **For multi-tenant customers**, this section displays:
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> -   **Organization level budgets** for managed organizations
> -   **Account level budgets** for the managing organization
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>     Managed organizations can't create account level budgets.

### Assign your budget

1.  Enter a name for your budget.

2.  Select the accounts or organization for your budget:

    **For single-tenant or managing organization account level budgets**: From the dropdown list, select and assign up to 5 accounts to this budget.

    **For multi-tenant organization level budgets**: Select one organization from the dropdown. Each organization level budget can contain only one organization.

    > #### 💡 TIP
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    > When creating organization level budgets, use the organization selector to view and select the managed organization for your budget.

3.  Select **Next**.

### Set monthly budget limits

1.  To set spending thresholds for your selected account, in the **Set monthly budget limits** section, assign the limits for the compute SKUs you've purchased to establish your account budget.
2.  Select **Next**.

    ![Screenshot displaying the Set monthly budget limits page with advanced and core CCU limits highlighted](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/set-monthly-account-budget.webp "Screenshot displaying the Set monthly budget limits page with advanced and core CCU limits highlighted")

### Set up notifications

1.  To prevent overages and manage costs effectively, in the **Set up notifications** page, set the threshold percentage and choose the destination for notifications.
2.  To receive a warning when you've used a certain percentage of the CCU assigned to a budget for a specific month, in the **Thresholds** tab, select **+ Add a threshold** and enter the percentage at which you want to receive notifications.
3.  To ensure notifications are sent when the budget exceeds the threshold, in the **Destinations** tab, add at least one person to be notified. You can choose from the following options:
    -   **Email**: Enter the email addresses of New Relic users to notify them about the budget.
    -   **Webhook**: Enter the webhook URL to send notifications to a specific endpoint.
4.  Select **Finish**.

### Review budget details

After you create the budget, view the details specific to the Compute SKUs on the **Compute budgets** page, as applicable and available to your order and account provisioning:
Field name

Description



Budget name

Budget name.


Status

Current budget status.


Advanced CCU usage

Percentage of advanced CCU used.


Advanced CCU allocation

Advanced CCU assigned to this budget.


Core CCU usage

Percentage of core CCU used.


Core CCU allocation

Core CCU allocated to this budget.


CCU usage

Percentage of CCU used.


CCU limits

CCU allocated to this budget.





### View usage breakdown

To view the **Usage breakdown**, select the three-dots menu. You can access the following information as available:

-   A detailed day-over-day breakdown of your CCU usage graph, tailored to the Compute SKUs you have.
-   CCU usage categorized by **Users**, **Accounts**, and **Capabilities**.
-   Details about the CCU, including the **Budget name**, associated accounts, and information such as **Budget time range**, **Product**, and **Notification** settings.

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