Monitoring alerts are separate from cost anomaly alerts. Anomaly alerts watch daily spend spikes; monitoring alerts fire after your scheduled waste re-scans when Parsivex finds new findings or confirmed fixes since the previous scan.
Who receives monitoring alerts
Monitoring alerts are available on paid plans with recurring scans. That includes Monthly Monitoring and Team subscribers.
| Channel | Plans |
|---|---|
| Monthly Monitoring, Team | |
| Slack | Team only |
Email is enabled automatically on Monthly Monitoring and Team plans — there is no separate toggle. Slack requires a webhook URL in Integrations → Alert channels; see Setting up Slack alerts.
When alerts are sent
Parsivex sends a monitoring alert when all of these are true:
- Your scan completes successfully
- Your account has recurring scans (a paid monitoring subscription)
- This is a follow-up scan — not your first scan on the plan
Your first successful scan on a monitoring plan sends a one-time scan complete email with your full savings report. Monitoring-style delta alerts begin on the second and subsequent scans, when Parsivex can compare findings to the previous month's check.
If a scan fails, no monitoring alert is sent. Parsivex may email you separately about the failure so you can retry.
What the email contains
Monitoring emails compare this scan to your previous monitoring scan:
New waste
When new findings appear, the subject line highlights the additional monthly waste — for example, $120/month in new AWS waste detected. The body lists up to three top new findings with estimated monthly savings.
Resolved savings
When findings you fixed disappear between scans, Parsivex includes a Fixed since last scan section. Each resolved finding shows its type and monthly savings. The email also references your cumulative realized savings total.
You can receive a resolutions-only email even when no new waste was found — for example, You fixed $85/month of AWS waste ✓.
Clean bill of health
If no new waste was detected and nothing resolved, the email confirms your account looks clean: Your AWS infrastructure looks clean this month.
Every monitoring email includes a View Full Report link to your latest scan report.
Slack monitoring messages
If your workspace has a Slack webhook configured and your account is on the Team plan, Parsivex posts a monitoring message to your channel at the same time as the email.
Slack messages include:
- A headline with new waste amount and finding count (or a clean-bill message when nothing new appeared)
- A resolutions summary when findings were fixed since the last scan
- The top new finding title and savings estimate
- A View Report button linking to your report
Monitoring Slack messages are distinct from daily cost anomaly Slack alerts, which fire on spend spikes rather than waste scan deltas.
No alert floods
Parsivex sends at most one monitoring notification per scan per channel. Email and Slack for the same scan are dispatched together; there is no per-finding email storm.
For daily anomaly alerts, Parsivex batches all spikes for an AWS connection into one email and one Slack message per day. You will not receive duplicate notifications if the same day's data is checked again.
Unsubscribing from email
Monitoring emails include an Unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing stops scan and anomaly emails for that workspace. It does not affect in-app anomaly data on your dashboard.
Slack messages have no unsubscribe link — disconnect the webhook in Integrations → Alert channels to stop Slack delivery.
Related topics
- Cost anomaly alerts — daily spend spike detection and dashboard feed
- Setting up Slack alerts — webhook setup and verification
- How scans work — scan schedule and completion behavior
- Realized savings — how resolved findings are credited