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title: Account level budgets
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/manage-data/data-ingest-budgets/account-level
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For organizations with multiple New Relic accounts, each with distinct data ingestion requirements, data ingest budgets provide 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 **account level budgets** for accounts within the managing organization (same functionality as single-tenant customers).

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

## Set up account-level budgets

### Open Data 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** > **Data Management** > **Data Budgets**.

### Create a budget

In the **Functional budgets** section, select **+ Add functional 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.  From the dropdown list, select and assign up to 5 accounts to this budget.

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    > Accounts that already have budgets assigned will appear disabled in the selection list.

3.  Select **Next**.

### Set monthly budget limits

1.  In the **Set monthly budget limits** section, you'll see how many GB are remaining in your organization budget.

2.  Enter the amount of GB you want to allocate to this account-level budget.

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    > You can allocate more than your organization budget. This allows flexible planning but may result in overages.

3.  Select **Next**.

### Set up notifications

1.  To receive a warning when you've used a certain percentage of the GB assigned to this budget for a specific month, in the **Thresholds** section, select **+ Add a threshold** and enter the percentage at which you want to receive notifications (for example, 75%, 90%, or 95%).
2.  To ensure notifications are sent when the budget exceeds the threshold, in the **Destinations** section, add at least one destination to be notified. You can choose from the following options:
    -   **Email**: Enter the email addresses of New Relic users to notify about the budget.
    -   **Webhook**: Enter the webhook URL to send notifications to a specific endpoint.
3.  Select **Finish**.

### Review budget details

After you create the budget, the **Data Budgets** page displays the following information for each budget:

| Field name                 | Description                                           |
| -------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| **Budget name**            | The name you assigned to the budget.                  |
| **Status**                 | Current status of the budget.                         |
| **GB allocation**          | How much data (GB) has been allocated to this budget. |
| **GB utilized**            | How much of the allocated data has been used.         |
| **Utilization percentage** | Percentage of the budget that has been used.          |

## Manage existing budgets

To manage an existing budget:

1.  Locate the budget in the list and select the three-dot menu.
2.  Choose from the following options:
    -   **View details**: See detailed information about the budget, including utilization graphs, thresholds, notification settings, associated accounts, and data sources.
    -   **Edit**: Modify the budget allocation, thresholds, or notification settings.
    -   **Delete**: Remove the budget.

### View budget details

Select a budget name or choose **View details** from the three-dot menu to see:

-   **Total allocation**: The total GB allocated to this budget
-   **Utilization**: Visual graph showing usage over time with day-over-day breakdown
-   **Thresholds**: The notification thresholds you've configured
-   **Notification destinations**: Where alerts are sent when thresholds are exceeded
-   **Associated accounts**: The accounts included in this budget
-   **Data sources**: Information about data sources contributing to budget usage, categorized by source type
-   **Budget time range**: The time period covered by this budget

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