Setup Budget In Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure

Azure is a Microsoft public cloud, which was announced in October 2008 and released in February 2010. This is currently the second largest public cloud, and it’s closing the gap quite quickly. The Azure cloud platform has more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life - to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice.

Setup budget in Microsoft Azure

Getting Started -

• Log in to https://portal.azure.com/
• Enter Username and Password
• Go to All services
• Search for Cost management + Billing

Cost management is central hub for managing anything that is cost related in Azure.

Click on Cost Management:

Then click on Budgets to create a budget that is under Cost Management.

 

Fill in the details like budget Name, Reset period, Creation date, Expiration date, and Amount and click next. In the given screenshot I am putting $1000 for my budget, you can choose according to your subscription.

Now setup an Alert for notification in case usage goes up. I am putting Forecasted 90%, if usage goes 90% then will get an alert notification. Now you can add Alert recipients(email) and choose Language and hit Create.

 

Conclusion

In this article, we have learned how to set up a Budget and setup an alert notification in Microsoft Azure.