Billing month in Azure Budget not shown/available in the Options

Question

I would like to effectively monitor some of my MSDN or Visual Studio subscription within Azure and create a budget to receive alerts when my credit approaches the threshold. I recall previously, that I have configured this setup and set the reset period aligned to the billing month. But I am currently unable to locate this option. Could there have been a recent change or am I overlooking something?

Configured with reset period set to Billingmonth:

Regards,

Answer 1

Hello @Jim Milagrosa Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A platform. Sorry for the delayed response!

Based on the information supplied in the original post, I understand that you want to monitor your MSDN and Visual Studio subscriptions to keep a tab on the spendings by creating budget alerts. However, Billing month in Azure Budget not shown/available in the Options.

You can use the REST API to create budget with BillingMonth grain. 

API doc https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/consumption/budgets/create-or-update?view=rest-consumption-2023-05-01&tabs=HTTP#timegraintype 

Example request body:

{

    "name": "test123",

    "eTag": null,

    "properties": {

        "category": "Cost",

        "amount": 100,

        "timeGrain": "BillingMonth",

        "timePeriod": {

            "startDate": "Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT",

            "endDate": "Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT"

        },

        "notifications": {

            "Actual_GreaterThan_10_Percent": {

                "enabled": true,

                "operator": "GreaterThan",

                "threshold": 10,

                "contactEmails": [

                    "test@contoso.com"

                ],

                "contactRoles": [],

                "contactGroups": [],

                "thresholdType": "Actual",

                "locale": null

            }

        },

        "filter": {}

    }

}

Hope this helps. Please write back to us if you need further assistance.

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