Cost FinOps Require Monthly

cost-finops-require-monthly

info experience: governanceexperience: data-modeling spec: costs

monthly should be present

The monthly property of each cost should be present.

Rule definition

The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.

cost-finops-require-monthly:
  title: Cost FinOps Require Monthly
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/finops/cost-finops-require-monthly/
  description: The `monthly` property of each cost should be present.
  message: monthly should be present
  severity: info
  given: $.costs[*]
  then:
    field: monthly
    function: truthy
  tags:
    - format:finops
    - spec:costs
    - experience:governance
    - experience:data-modeling
  prompt: "You are editing a FinOps document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'cost-finops-require-monthly' (Cost FinOps Require Monthly).
    Requirement: The `monthly` property of each cost should be present. To fix:
    Ensure `monthly` is present and non-empty at each matching location. This
    rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.costs[*]` — inspect every location it
    matches and correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change
    that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments,
    and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid FinOps. Return only
    the complete corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing a FinOps document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'cost-finops-require-monthly' (Cost FinOps Require Monthly). Requirement: The `monthly` property of each cost should be present. To fix: Ensure `monthly` is present and non-empty at each matching location. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.costs[*]` — inspect every location it matches and correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid FinOps. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary.
ArtifactFinOps
Applies at (given)$.costs[*]
Severityinfo — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce
Referencehttps://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/finops/cost-finops-require-monthly/