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Azure monitoring costs

Azure Cost Management

  • Detailed cost analysis
    • Consumption, cost, performance
    • In portal
      • Open scope (e.g. subscription or resource) → Click on code analysis blade
      • Or go to "Cost Management" → "Cost analysis" and change scope on top
  • Resource optimizations
    • Identify underutilized resources
  • Budgets, alerts, action groups
    • Compare costs against budget
  • Cross-cloud
    • Manage Azure, Amazon and Google cloud resources in one tool.
  • In portal can be found
  • 🤗 Replaces Cloudyn that was a third party cost management service which was acquired by Microsoft in 2017 and integrated in Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn is deprecated since 2020 but existing users can still user.

Monitoring costs using portal

  • In Subscription → Cost Analysis
    • Filter, view consumptions per resource/tags etc.
  • Subscription → Invoices
    • Shows invoices
    • ❗ It does not show individual resources.
      • To see them go to: Subscription → Manage and download invoices

Monitoring costs using Consumption APIs

  • Allows programmatic access to cost and usage data
  • Some APIs provided differ based on subscription type such as 1
    • Enterprise Enrollments
    • Web Direct Subscriptions
  • 🤗 Formerly known as Azure Billing APIs categorized as enterprise and non-enterprise APIs