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Azure CSP Customer - How to monitor costs if cost mgmt tool is limited? (No mgmt group , PAYG rate )
I was formerly an EA administrator and we had full access over our tenant. All management groups could be used for a scope on cost management & Billing and it would return accurate pricing. New c...
I'm working for a CSP and faced the same problem for some of our customers.
The regular Cost Management API is only returning PAYG pricing.
At the customer side, there isn't any possibility to return the effective cost for a subscription, nor tenant wide.
At CSP side, the subscriptions are managed through Partner Center.
This as a few downsides for reporting. The data can be fetched with the Partner Center REST API, but only with valid partner credentials. Above that, some of the charges change after they get billed the first time.
Custom reporting can be offered by the Partner to get insight in you billing, but this depends on what the CSP offers.