Pause Data 360 Credit Consumption with Flow
Summary
Managing Data 360 credit consumption can be challenging, especially for smaller projects with tight budgets. By using Salesforce Flows combined with Connect APIs, admins can set threshold alerts and automate pausing or reducing consumption in processes like data streams and calculated insights. The article shows practical ways to configure Flows and Apex to adjust process schedules dynamically based on usage alerts, helping teams proactively control costs. Additionally, permission set removal via Flow offers a last-resort method to prevent new consumption. This multi-layered approach empowers Salesforce professionals to build automated controls to keep Data 360 credit usage within limits.
Takeaways
- Configure Digital Wallet threshold alerts to notify admins before credit limits are hit.
- Use Flow and Connect API calls to pause or reduce Data 360 process schedules dynamically.
- Adjust publish schedules for calculated insights to stop or lower consumption frequency.
- Leverage Apex classes to bulk pause calculated insights via Connect API calls.
- Remove permission sets via Flow as a reactive way to restrict consumption-driving actions.
Customers often ask how to better control their consumption. This comes up especially in smaller POC projects, where teams are extra cautious about going over budget and want stronger levers to pause or manage usage. Digital Wallet provides threshold alerts, an out-of-the-box Flow that can be configured to notify an org’s admin when credit usage approaches a set level. With Flow and Connect APIs, you can even pause processes like data streams or calculated insights when an alert is triggered, ensuring that your credit consumption stays within your comfort zone. Digital Wallet Threshold Alerts Digital Wallet’s Consumption Threshold Alerts is a ready-to-use Flow that sends a notification when usage on a consumption card hits a limit that you define. You can set percentage-based limits across all of your consumption cards, or for specific cards. Your threshold alerts are sent in-app and via email, but you can also opt to send them to Slack or your computer desktop.