Catch spikes and misconfigurations before they hit the budget.
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Traditional infrastructure has steady-ish baselines; LLM spend can swing with one bad loop or a new release. Alerts on spend and token spikes help you catch regressions and abuse early.
Combine statistical signals (e.g. deviation from recent history) with minimum spend floors so you don’t page on noise. Tune thresholds per environment—staging can be noisier than production.