Insight on container and blob level usage and cost

Question

Is there any service other than Blob inventory to view container level metrics for cost, usage and performance?We have many customers, who store their specific business data in containers provisioned for them specifically. We want to build a charge back model for these customers and for this, need visibility on consumption and usage of each container by the consumer. I want to know, capacity in terms of Gigabytes total and how many files are added to each container, size of each file, if possible file format, how many times files are accessed or new files are added, updated and deleted. Also, what is the monthly cost, if I add Activity log service and Azure monitor service and will this help my case? Please advise, Nams

Answer 1

Hello @Anonymous For allocating costs based on utilization, consider utilizing tags so that you can later break down your Azure costs by tags. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/enable-tag-inheritance and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/allocate-costs Some of the metrics that you're trying to measure is exposed directly by the service and you can look them up here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/monitor-blob-storage-reference. In addition to that, you'll also need to utilize Activity logs to break this information down further. Please do not forget to "Accept the answer” and “up-vote” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members.