Setting a Budget for Azure subscription

In this demonstration I will be able to show you ways to Setting a budget for Azure subscription. This may assist you prevent form to avoid any unexpected or surprise costs.

Now, I have logged into the portal and we’re in the home screen, you can see the home screen is underneath this hamburger menu here. And I’m going to click on subscriptions and we can see the subscription name.

In here my subscription name is AZ900, but your subscription name can be differ.

Now, you can see that I’ve already incurred $5.53 of costs this month. And that’s not very much, but it is more than zero.

What is this $5.53, where’s it coming from?

Now, if we go into the subscription by clicking it, we can see that information,

With this I can see more details cost analysis against the resources. This is very helpful and easy to understand dashboard.

Now, I am going to create a budget.

So on the left side of the screen, under cost management, it says budgets.

Now, by default I don’t have any budgets.

What I am going to do is create my first budget.

So I go to add. Now I can define what the scope is of this budget.

Now I configure this first budget to affect entire subscription call AZ900.

But if I want to limit the budget scope to only a particular resource group or a particular resource, yes I can do it,

Now I have to give it a name, so call this AZ900budget. And the name cannot contain spaces.

Now I can configure the budget duration

In here I configure my budget as 10USD I really do want to be notified when the spending hits 8USD.

Now it’s important to keep in mind, what’s going to happen when this budget is hit?

The budget doesn’t stop running the resources once it reaches the budget limit, it actually just alerts you.

So I can see, give it a condition that says when 80% of the budget have been spent, which in my case is $8, I can just have it alert me by email.

So I can enter my email address here and it will actually just send me an email when this budget is hit. And I can say create.

And so now at least I get notifications when the budget hits $8 every month.

This is very important to set up because I believe it’s happened to almost everybody who’s worked with Azure, where you accidentally start up a resource.

Yes, its works now. Just now I got this email from the Azure. This is the email notification that I got.

So now I can go to the Azure dashboard and see actually what happened.