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title: "Monitor usage and credits"
url: "https://docs.alisx.com/how-to/account/monitor-usage-and-credits/"
---
# Monitor usage and credits

See how many credits your account used each month, who and which projects used them, and set monthly limits. For account admins.

## Prerequisites

- You are an admin of the account. Members see **Account admin access required** on this page.
- The account has members with product access. Until then **Activity** is locked in the pane.

## Read the Activity page

1. Open the account menu and click **Account settings**.
2. Click **Activity**. Beside it in the pane, a chip shows the share of the account's limit used, the prepaid balance, or **No limit**.

The page opens on the current month. **Previous month** and **Next month** step through earlier months.

The top row has up to three cards:

- The month's usage, titled with the month: the credits used, month to date (UTC) for the current month, split into what was billed and what free credits covered, with an estimated amount.
- **Free credits**: the free credits left, while any remain. They are used before anything is billed and don't reset with the month.
- **Monthly usage limit**, for the current month: the share of the limit used, with a progress bar, the date it resets and an **Adjust** button. It reads **No limit set.** when there is none, **Blocked** when the limit is 0, and says the usage limit is reached once the month's usage reaches it. **Stops when the free credits run out.** shows when the account stops there.

Money amounts on this page are estimates at the account's plan credit price, excluding tax. Totals count platform usage only: account fees and credit grants aren't usage.

## Break usage down by activity, user or project

Under **Credit usage breakdown**, a chart shows the month's daily usage. The toggle switches it between **Activity**, **Users** and **Projects**; under **Activity**, the chips filter it by kind of activity.

- **User activity** lists members ranked by the credits they used this month, each with their share of account usage.
- **Project activity** lists projects the same way. **Open project** opens one.

Each list shows its top five; a View all button shows the rest, and the search field narrows them. Select a row to highlight it in the chart.

## Set a member's monthly limit

1. In **User activity**, click **Set user limit** on the member's row. The member's **monthly usage limit** dialog opens with what they have used this month.
2. Enter **Credits a month**, or the amount in your currency. Leave it empty for no limit of their own; the account's limit still applies.
3. Click **Save**.

A member's limit applies to the current calendar month (UTC). If they have already used more than the new limit, the dialog warns that it blocks them now.

## Set the account limit

1. In **Monthly usage limit**, click **Adjust**. The **Monthly usage limit** dialog opens with what the account has used this month.
2. Enter **Credits a month**, or the amount in your currency. Free credits count towards it. Leave it empty for no limit; a limit of 0 blocks all usage.
3. While the account has free credits left, you can also tick **Stop when the free credits run out**.
4. Click **Save**.

A limit is checked before new work starts. Work that is already running always finishes, even if it goes over.

## Check Google Cloud spend

Click **Billing** in the pane. Above the invoices, **Managed Google Cloud Billing** shows the Google Cloud billing account attached to your Build environments with its **Current calendar month spend**, **Last 7 days spend** and **Last 30 days spend**.

## What members see

Members do not see account figures. When a limit stops them, the message they get says whether their own limit or the account's limit was reached, so they know whether to ask an admin.

## Related

- [Set up billing](https://docs.alisx.com/how-to/account/set-up-billing.md)
- [Roles and access](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/console/roles-and-access.md) for the limits that exist.