Azure billing limit exceed

Question

Azure resources billing amount is getting increased on month by month.There is only one instance running and we have not changed any configuration in that.

My VM instance automatically shutdown last week.

How to find the auto shutdown option in azure portal and also how to find out the configuration of CAP cost

Answer 1

Hi @Divya P ,

it looks like there is a "spending limit" defined in your Azure subscription.

More details you will find here: Azure spending limit

When your usage results in charges that exhaust your spending limit, the services that you deployed are disabled for the rest of that billing period. When your usage results in charges that exhaust your spending limit, the services that you deployed are disabled for the rest of that billing period. Source: Reaching a spending limit

The spending limit can be removed. More details you will find here: Remove the spending limit in Azure portal

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Answer 2

@Divya P You can get notified before you reach spending limit using Budget alerts. Budget alerts notify you when spending, based on usage or cost, reaches or exceeds the amount defined in the alert condition of the budget. Cost Management budgets are created using the Azure portal or the Azure Consumption API.

If you have an Enterprise Agreement, you can Create and edit budgets with PowerShell. Customers with a Microsoft Customer Agreement should use the Budgets REST API to create budgets programmatically.

You can use Cost Analysis feature within Azure portal to review the costs occurred for your resource. This helps you identify why you are charged and for what. For more information refer this and this documents.

Also, you can utilize Start Stop VMs V2 feature to automatically shut down and start the vm's on schedule when you think the vm can be shut down during weekends or on national holidays. For more information, refer this article.