Unable to View Costs by Tags in Cost Management

Question

Hello,

We have multiple resources in our Azure subscription and have applied tags to them to facilitate cost analysis. However, when accessing Cost Management -> Cost Analysis, the values appear empty, which does not reflect the actual usage costs.

Additionally, we receive a message in the console stating that our subscription type (Startup - Sponsorship) does not have access to Cost Analysis.

We would like to understand:

1. Is there another way to view costs filtered by tags or resource names?
2. If not, is there a way to enable Cost Analysis for our subscription?

Answer 1

Hello Antonio Meireles,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A and thank you for posting your questions here.

I understand that you are unable to view Costs by Tags in Cost Management.

The root cause is that Cost Analysis is not supported for Sponsorship subscriptions, so the Group by tag and native tag-based views in Cost Analysis will remain unavailable while the subscription is still on the Sponsorship offer. - Understand Cost Management data and Quickstart: Start using Cost Analysis gives you more insight.

What to do are the following to view costs:

• Use Azure portal > Cost Management + Billing > Billing / Usage + charges to download detailed usage while the Sponsorship is active. This is the supported workaround for viewing usage by resource name, type, region, and cost during the Startup Sponsorship period.
• If your exported usage file includes the Tags field, analyze that file in Excel or Power BI to filter or group cost by tag outside Cost Analysis. The cost details schema includes a Tags column for usage exports.
• If you need full native Cost Analysis with tag grouping in the Azure portal, you must use a supported offer. For Microsoft for Startups, the existing Sponsorship subscription automatically transitions to Pay‑As‑You‑Go when credits are exhausted, and Pay‑As‑You‑Go is supported in Cost Management.
• If you need Cost Analysis before the Sponsorship ends, create or use a supported subscription and move resources only if their resource types support cross-subscription moves and both subscriptions are in the same Microsoft Entra tenant.
• After moving to a supported offer, apply tags directly on resources and, if needed, enable tag inheritance so subscription and resource-group tags are added to child usage records for the current month.

After the subscription is on a supported offer and cost data refresh completes, Cost Analysis can group and filter by tag normally. New subscriptions or newly supported scopes can take up to 48 hours before all Cost Management features become available.

All the above points are validated via the resource below, you can use the following official Microsoft references for more reading and steps:

• Understand Cost Management data
• Quickstart: Start using Cost Analysis
• Understanding Azure Usage and Billing for Microsoft for Startups
• View and download Azure usage and charges
• Understand cost details fields
• Group and allocate costs using tag inheritance
• Use tags to organize your Azure resources
• Move Azure resources to a new resource group or subscription
• Azure resource types for move operations

I hope this is helpful! Do not hesitate to let me know if you have any other questions, steps or clarifications.

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