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Hey folks
I see MS updated this page a few months ago: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/data-retention-archive?tabs=portal-3%2Cportal-1%2Cportal-2#pricing-model
This part has been added to the documentation: "Log data that has _IsBillable == false is not subject to retention or archive charges."
I want to be sure I understand this correctly. Does that mean that storing these non-billable logs in interactive tier or archive tier won't incur any charges? If so, is this just an update in the documentation and it worked like this all along, or is this a technical change and these logs are only free to store from this point on?
In the past Microsoft support stated that only ingestion is free for these tables but not the long term (90+ days) storage. So either they were wrong back then, or this change came out without a big announcement.
I agree. This update should have been a bigger announcement. I will ask around. I know in the past, Activity Logs were described as incurring archival costs. This came up on internal forums recently. Good news either way.
Team consensus is a documentation correction rather than a system change. Thanks
So are you saying the doc is wrong and _IsBillable == false data, does still incur costs? Just for clarity ;-)
My impression was, that what Andrew said is that it was a documentation correction and not a technical change. Thus the documentation is correct and _IsBillable == false was free all along. At least I hope this is what he meant :D
hey @Andrew Blumhardt
Could you please confirm that I understand it correctly then:
1: Non-billable tables are free to ingest - true
2: Non-billable tables are free to store in interactive retention tier (up to the max years) - true
3: Non-billable tables are free to archive (up to the max years) - true
4: Non-billable tables are free to search/restore from archive - false