Granular Billing for Azure Data Factory
In this blog, Charlie Zhu walks you through the new granular billing option for Azure Data Factory and helps you better understand pipeline costs. We are bringing clarity and transparency into data pipelines operations with built-in per pipeline billing report so that you will know exactly how much each pipeline costs you.
Microsoft Defender for Servers and Cost Management and Billing
There is currently no way to itemize the total cost of Defender for Servers at the Virtual Machine level. When The Defender for Servers Plan is enabled at the Azure subscription, billing for all servers in the subscription is rolled up to a total amount at the subscription. It is not possible in Cost Management and Billing to see the cost for the Defender for Servers Plan for a particular Virtual Machine resource or resource group.
Live Monitoring Billable Network Out for Current Day
Hi All, Problem Unable to monitor network usage for the current day for a subscription or resource group to identify the number of bytes which are billable. More Info I am looking for a way to query the Network Out for selected resources to identify how much data has gone in and out for the current day. The reason for doing so is to identify if any users on a system are moving huge amounts of data out of a resource in order to prevent/notify large billable data transfers as they are happening. Clarification I am aware that Data Out + Billable Data metrics can be queried for a resource group or subscription after the day has ended, I am looking for a way to do this for the current day. Cheers, Stu
Team Audio Conferencing Toll free billing by cost center
Hello everyone, I have looked online quite extensively for anything to answer my question, or find someone else who found themselves in my position, and what they did. I have a customer who has fully adopted Teams. They use Call in Audio conferencing numbers for their Teams meetings regularly. They want to change these Audio conferencing numbers to a toll free number or numbers. So I could simply add a toll-free conference bridge number, no problem. The problem is this organization is big, and they want to bill the Toll free minutes to different cost centers. So all of the minutes HR uses, go against HR's budget, same for Finance, operations,. etc etc. More challenging, some people may initiate Teams meetings and there for incur cost for different cost centers depending on the meeting. How are other organizations tracking, and allocating Teams Audio conferencing costs? As far as I can tell all we get is one big CSV with all billable calls, and very little detail to properly classify the call, and beyond that, it should not be up to some individual to review every single call per month, ask the person who initiated the meeting which coster center is fell under, and bill it out accordingly to different departments, that's insanely inefficient. One thought I had was use 1 toll free number per cost center, and then just sort the CSV by confeence number, and boom you have your data, but there is no way for the Meeting Initiator to choose which Audio Conference number appears by default on their meeting invite, and that wont stop someone from simply clicking on the list of available numbers and choosing one designated to a different cost center to access the meeting, which would completely eliminate any data integrity. I cant be the only person in this boat, can anyone point me in the right direction?
What is Monetary commitment balance
Hello all We have a "pay-as-you-go" Azure subscription. We get a bill every month based on our usage. We also have Microsoft EA agreement. Recently I came to know that our licensing department receives an email with subject: Microsoft Azure Service Monetary Commitment Balance and Unbilled Overage Summary and it has a table with $ amount in a table like this: Monetary commitment balance Unbilled overage charges This is not a bill. This is a notification of usage. If you would like to view the full usage summary that breaks down these balances by month and service, please log into the Microsoft Azure Enterprise portal. Can anyone please explain what Azure Monetary commitment balance is? And if it is not a bill what is the meaning of that balance?
