<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Microsoft Azure Subscription Cost Sensor

Permissions for the Azure custom role

This sensor requires an Azure custom role with specific permissions. Create an Azure custom role and add permissions for the following actions:

• "Microsoft.Consumption/*/read",
• "Microsoft.Consumption/*/action",
• "Microsoft.CostManagement/query/read",
• "Microsoft.Billing/*/read"

For more information, see the Knowledge Base: How do I obtain credentials and create custom roles for the Microsoft Azure sensors?

Budgets

PRTG creates two default channels, one for the last period cost and one for the current period cost. Select if you want to create additional channels for the budget usage in your Microsoft Azure subscription.

PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.

Cost Forecast

Select if you want to create an additional channel with a cost forecast for your Microsoft Azure subscription.

PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.

Sensor Name

Enter a name to identify the sensor.

Parent Tags

Shows tags that the sensor inherits from its parent device, parent group, and parent probe.

This setting is for your information only. You cannot change it.

Tags

Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.

It is not possible to enter tags with a leading plus (+) or minus (-) sign, nor tags with parentheses (()) or angle brackets (<>).

For performance reasons, it can take some minutes until you can filter for new tags that you added.

The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:

• microsoftazure
• microsoftazuresubscriptioncost
• azure

Priority

Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority () to the highest priority ().

Budgets

Shows if additional channels for the budget usage in your Microsoft Azure subscription are enabled or disabled.

PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.

Cost Forecast

Shows if the additional channel with a cost forecast for your Microsoft Azure subscription is enabled or disabled.

PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.

Most Expensive Service

Select if you want to show the most expensive service of your Microsoft Azure subscription in the sensor message.

Most Expensive Service Category

This field is only visible if you select Most Expensive Service above. Select the category for which you want to show the most expensive service in the sensor message. Choose between:

• Resource group
• Resource type
• Resource ID
• Location
• Service name

Primary Channel

Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.

You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.

Graph Type

Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:

• Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
• Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic.
  You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).

Stack Unit

This setting is only visible if you enable Stack channels on top of each other as Graph Type. Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Result Handling

Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:

• Discard result: Do not store the sensor result.

• Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].log. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval.

This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance.

In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Current Period Cost

The current period cost

Downtime

In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status in percent.

Forecast

The cost forecast

[Budget] Used

The used budget

This channel is the primary channel by default.

[Budget] Used %

The used budget in percent

Previous Period Cost

The previous period cost