Does enabling auditing on Azure SQL Server will cost any extra charge?

Question

Auditing charge is not mentioned in the pricing calculator.

we want to enable auditing on microsoft sql server (server level) as recommended by Microsoft defender for cloud.

Does Azure SQL Auditing incurs extra charge? How it is based-on?

Suppose, I need to enable Auditing and send logs to the Log Analytics workspace. How much cost for how much data?

Answer 1

Hi Rajoli Hari Krishna •,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

As I understand, you want to know about cost of enabling Auditing on your SQL DB.

Enabling auditing involves cost as it stores data to Storage, Log Analytics, or Event Hubs.

For actual calculation, you can raise support case for better analysis of your scenario and configuration.

Let me know if you need any help in doing the same.

Thanks

Answer 2

Hello Rajoli,

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

I suggest raising a support ticket to the Billing Team to support your subscription

Click HERE to raise a ticket

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