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Azure customer usage attribution (CUA) - report or validate it is working?
Hi justinroyal - regards Partner Centre reporting, I don't appear to see the items you pointed out:
Partner Center Reporting
- Attribution data flows into Partner Center Analytics (under Customer Usage Attribution reports) within 24–48 hours.
- Navigate to: Partner Center → Insights → Customer Usage Attribution
- Filter by your MPN ID or Tracking GUID.
- Validate that the usage metrics (VM hours, resource consumption) appear.
Any advice?
Thanks
Hi ph_richardson sorry for any confusion.
There is reporting for usage of Marketplace purchased solutions, which can be found in Usage dashboard of Insights workspace in Partner Center. However, this will not include reporting of Azure customer usage attribution.
The original documentation page you referenced has directions on how to verify deployments tracked with a GUID. Microsoft does not share Azure consumption data tracked via Customer Usage Attribution externally with Partners.
I hope that clarifies reporting and that you were able to validate your tracking ID is working as intended.
Hi v-kylecallahan,
Thanks, unfortunately this still doesn't help me.
The original doc referenced does indeed have a section on "Verify deployments tracked with a GUID" specifically for Resource Manager templates - however the same section also states that it "doesn't apply to Resource Manager API or Terraform deployments".
In our case, we are using Resource Manager API's and with Azure PowerShell (per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/marketplace-offers/azure-partner-customer-usage-attribution?source=docs#example-azure-powershell) and there is no information on how to confirm if CUA is working or not.
I am not asking for a report on the actual Azure consumption volumes, revenues, etc.; nor am I even looking for a list of end-customers..... all I'm after is a way to confirm that Microsoft is internally indeed seeing seeing Azure consumption data tracked via Customer Usage Attribution for a specific tracking GUID.
For example, perhaps a simple Green/Red indicator next to each Tracking GUID in our partner portal view that indicates some/any consumption data has been received within the last 3-months would be helpful.
While such an indicator doesn't exist as far as I'm aware of, is there a way for someone in Microsoft to manually check a tracking GUID and give a thumbs up/down as to is there CUA data associated to it in the last 3-months?
v-kylecallahan , justinroyal , or JillArmourMicrosoft - further assistance on this would be most welcome please.
Seems I am not the only one asking for someone, or a way, to at least confirm/validate that the CUA of our tracking GUID's is actually working from a Microsoft internal reporting perspective.
Thanks. Phil.
We're in the same situation. A number of resources were deployed at a customer with our CUA guid (supposedly), but I can't see anything in the portal to tell me that it is actually working. I'm not sure how the Azure Consumption, new customers, etc that are required for the partner specializations work if we can't see the CUA data? what is the point?
