{"id":1774,"date":"2016-01-26T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T11:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2016-01-26T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T11:34:31","slug":"azure-setting-up-the-azure-billing-alert-preview-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/2016\/01\/azure-setting-up-the-azure-billing-alert-preview-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"[Azure] Setting up the Azure billing alert preview feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who might follow me on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsiegmund\" target=\"_blank\">@jsiegmund<\/a>) might have seen this tweet about my Azure credits running out fast:<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-lang=\"en\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-partner=\"jetpack\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaaaaaaand there gone. Be careful provisioning the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Azure?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Azure<\/a> remote monitoring sample to your tenant! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IoT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IoT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b9LMvGC56E\">pic.twitter.com\/b9LMvGC56E<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jasper Siegmund (@jsiegmund) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsiegmund\/status\/687530854185332736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote><br \/>\nThis was caused by the Azure IoT suite remote monitoring sample, which eats up your credits very fast when you leave it running. Now wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if there were some way to get alerted when your credits begin running low, before you run out completely? Well turns out Azure has such a feature in preview. It&#8217;s called &#8220;billing alert service&#8221; and you can find instructions on how to activate it <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/documentation\/articles\/azure-billing-set-up-alerts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>I received the confirmation e-mail quite fast, but had to wait longer before the option actually started working in the portal. It took a couple of days before the &#8220;ALERTS&#8221; option appeared, so be patient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/billingportal.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1778\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/billingportal-300x197.png\" alt=\"billingportal\" width=\"408\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/billingportal-300x197.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/billingportal-624x411.png 624w, http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/billingportal.png 687w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great feature for folks like me who regularly try out all kinds of features and might not keep daily track of how much credits they&#8217;re spending!<\/p>\n<p>One option I am missing though is to set an alert based on your spending cap. For instance, I currently have\u00a0a spending cap of 130 euro&#8217;s and would like an alert as soon as 75% of those credits have been used. Of course I can set an alert on 97.50 instead, but in my opinion it would be cleaner if you could also enter a percentage. When you agree, you can vote on this feature requests here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feedback.azure.com\/forums\/34192--general-feedback\/suggestions\/11586345-set-billing-alerts-based-on-spending-cap\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/feedback.azure.com\/forums\/34192&#8211;general-feedback\/suggestions\/11586345-set-billing-alerts-based-on-spending-cap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who might follow me on Twitter (@jsiegmund) might have seen this tweet about my Azure credits running out fast: This was caused by the Azure IoT suite remote monitoring sample, which eats up your credits very fast when you leave it running. Now wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if there were some way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34],"tags":[78,157,39],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3KFR1-sC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}