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Vantage integrates with Microsoft Teams so that you can send Report Notifications, Cost Alerts, Cost Anomaly Alerts, and Budget Alerts to your Teams channels. You can adjust notifications to be delivered to a specific public or private channel in Microsoft Teams. The Vantage Microsoft Teams integration makes it easy for teams to stay on top of cloud costs without leaving Microsoft Teams. Your team gets real-time alerts right where you already work. You can configure notifications for things like:
  • Unexpected spending spikes
  • Budgets getting close to or over their limits
  • Regular Cost Report summaries
  • Custom alerts for specific thresholds or conditions
Example Report Notification in an MS Teams message

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Installation

To complete the integration, ensure you have permission to add integrations to your team’s Microsoft Teams account.
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From the top navigation, click Settings.
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On the left navigation, click Integrations.
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Under the Apps section, click Teams.
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Click Connect Teams.
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Log in with your Microsoft 365 account and provide Vantage with authorization to access your account. Vantage will ask for the following permissions on your Teams account:
  • Read names and descriptions of Teams
  • Read names and descriptions of channels
  • Send messages to channels
The Vantage app for Microsoft Teams has been verified by Microsoft. Vantage interacts with Microsoft Office 365 to set the approved permissions for the app in your account and uses the Microsoft Graph API to get and send info to your Microsoft Teams account.

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Next Steps

After installation, you can configure various types of alerts to monitor your cloud costs:
Alert TypeDescriptionDocumentation
Budget AlertsSet up budget alerts for your most critical cost centersBudget Alerts
Cost Anomaly DetectionCreate cost anomaly detection for unexpected spending spikesCost Anomaly Alerts
Report NotificationsConfigure report notifications for regular cost summariesReport Notifications
Cost AlertsSet up custom alerts for specific thresholds or conditionsCost Alerts

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Channel Support by Alert Type

The matrix below shows which Vantage alert types support delivery to Microsoft Teams (and to Slack, Jira, and email for cross-reference).
Alert TypeEmailSlackMicrosoft TeamsJiraConfigured From
Cost Anomaly AlertsYesYesYesYesA Cost Report’s Anomalies tab > Configure Alert
Cost AlertsYesYesYesYesA Cost Report’s … menu > Create Cost Alert, or Notifications > Cost Alerts > Configure Cost Alert
Budget AlertsYesYesYesYesA Budget’s Manage tab > Manage Alerts > Configure Alert
Report Notifications (Cost Reports)YesYesYes—The Notifications page > New Notification > Cost Report Notification, or a Cost Report’s … menu > Create Report Notification
Dashboard NotificationsYes———The Notifications page > New Notification > Dashboard Notification
Slack and Microsoft Teams are mutually exclusive at the integration level: you can connect either Slack or Microsoft Teams, not both. See the Slack and Microsoft Teams integration docs for setup. Jira delivery requires the Jira integration.