Azure series : Setup an alert for billing in Azure

Introduction

I am working with and trying some tooling in Azure, for instance the Azure Data Factory V1 and V2,  Azure SQL DW, Automation, the Azure Blob Storage. Sometimes it can be cumbersome to keep up with the costs of usage of the different services in Azure.

I found an useful tool to monitor the costs of Azure in the Azure billing portal: Alerts. It is in preview. You can do that at : https://account.azure.com.

Alert

Choose for subscriptions in the Billing portal.

Click on the right subscription to set the alert.

Next step is to choose for ALERTS.

And now set the alert properties

Conclusion

Alerts can be very useful for monitoring your Azure costs.

Hennie