Azure Monitor API cost - Business critical feature

[Vinoth_Azure]

Monitor API calls for querying of metrics data for a single resource every 5 minutes.

Hello team,

According to Microsoft's official documentation, we understand that they charge $0.01 for every 1000 API calls (after the free quota).

How is this API charge calculated? Is it based on each metric data call being one API call or each resource data being one API call?

How does this data transfer affect network bandwidth? Does cross-regional querying affect the pricing?

Microsoft has not provided details on how this charging calculation is performed. 

Note: This is being perfectly handled on GCP cloud, They provide details like how many API calls run by each service principal level. 

Thanks,
Vinoth_Azure

[#2]

This feature is nice to have in Azure also, customers should be aware of how many API calls are made by a service account and how these calls impact the bills.  

I thought @azure team should consider this on their road map. 


@Vinoth_Azure