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John Wildes
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May 09, 2018

Azure Virtual Machine runtime calculation

Hello All, I currently have an azure automation runbook that executes a get-azurermvm command against all the subscriptions in our tenant.  This script compiles a table, that lists the vmSize and St...
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John Wildes
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May 14, 2018

Noa,

 

Thanks for this I'll adjust it for my table.  

 

The 40 hour requirement is a lifetime calculation of the VM runtime.  The customer I'm working with is providing a SaaS app "evaluation" to a customer which they only want to allow them to use it NO more than 40 hours total.  It's likely that they'd reach this in a week, but it's also likely they'd reach it in 40 days if they only use the VMs for an hour a day...Log analytics keeps data for 31 days? so if I calculated off of the data retained there could be a scenario where the usage is 31 hours and never reaches 40.

 

john

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Noa Kuperberg
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May 14, 2018

Hey John,

Retention is up to you. To configure, "Usage and estimated costs" on the Log Analytics workspace menu, and in it "Data volume management":

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    John Wildes
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    May 14, 2018

    Thanks Noa!  Did not know that functionality was added to the portal...greatly appreciated!

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      Noa Kuperberg
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      May 15, 2018

      Great! you can read on changing retention here and make sure you can easily manage your costs without concerns.

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