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# Budgets

Budgets are a way of establishing spend limits for your clusters or namespaces. They can be created in moments using the Budgets dashboard.
Budgets are a way of establishing spend limits for your clusters, namespaces, or labels. They can be created in moments using the Budgets dashboard.

## Creating a budget

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Provide the following fields:

### Spending cap and cadence

* _Budget name_: The name of your budget
* Budget cap: The allotted amount of your budget per interval

{% hint style="info" %}
The currency of your budget is unchangeable in the Budgets dashboard. To change currency type, go to _Settings >_ Currency. Then, select _Save_ at the bottom of the Settings page to apply changes. Changing currency type will affect cost displays across all of your Kubecost, not just the Budgets dashboard. Kubecost does **not** convert spending costs to other currency types; it will only change the symbol displayed next to cost. For best results, configure your currency to what matches your spend.
{% endhint %}

Determine the length of your budget and reset date using the two dropdowns under the Budget cap text box. Budgets can be either _Weekly_ or _Monthly_, and can reset on any day of the week/month. This means you don't need to recreate your budgets and can align them with your schedules or processes.
Determine the length of your budget and reset date using the two dropdowns under the Budget cap text box. Budgets can be either _Weekly_ or _Monthly_, and can reset on any day of the week/month. This means you don't need to recreate your budgets repeatedly and can align them with your schedules or processes.

### Workloads

From the first dropdown, select whether this budget will apply to a namespace or a cluster. In the second dropdown, choose the individual namespace or cluster.
From the first dropdown, select whether this budget will apply to a namespace, cluster, or a label. In the second dropdown, choose the individual item in that category. When _Namespace_ or _Cluster_ has been selected, the dropdown menu should attempt to autocomplete by searching for all potential items.

{% hint style="info" %}
Labels need to be provided in a key:value format that describes where the object the budget applies to.
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### **Actions**

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Selecting _Details_ in the row of a specific budget will open a window displaying all details for your budget, including current spending, budget remaining, reset date, and any existing Actions.

You can also select _View detailed breakdown_ to display an [Allocations ](https://docs.kubecost.com/using-kubecost/navigating-the-kubecost-ui/cost-allocation)query for your budgeted namespace/cluster, or _Download Budget Report_ to download your budget as a PDF file.
You can also select _View detailed breakdown_ to display an [Allocations](https://docs.kubecost.com/using-kubecost/navigating-the-kubecost-ui/cost-allocation) query for your budgeted item, or _Download Budget Report_ to download your budget as a PDF file.

### Editing a budget

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