It appears that there is no way of achieving what I want through the portals.  So let me elucidate my requirements.

 

I am trying to work out a process of costing various usages of Azure.  Having done that I will work out what resources I need, and purchase enough.  However I know that such costings are always an estimate and what I need to do is to monitor resources allocated against resources used on an ongoing basis.

 

This might result in purchasing more resources or it might result in deciding Azure is not cost effective compared to some other solution.  Note that if my MSDN benefits are insufficient and I purchase more resources I would not be able to go to the MSDN  benefits page you mention.

 

Clearly there is no way of doing this through either the management or customer portals.  So my question to you is whether there are Azure API’s I can use to acquire the resource and usage information and consolidate this info?

 

I would be surprised if any commercial usage of Azure did not require such information.

 

 

Regards

Andy

I remember seeing simialr requests for Azure billing API in the past on this forum and this seems to be not available currently and  I have not heard of any time commitment to make this feature available in future.

I guess, the best thing we could do is to vote for requesting this feature here and bring it to the top of the table.

HTH.

This API must exist for the billing system to exist.

Andy

that kind of API, (if even existing) is not accessible (yet). Dot. But you can get an daily updated overview on the billing portal, shouldn't be to complex parsing the output for further automated processing.

• Marked as answer by Wenchao Zeng Monday, May 09, 2011 3:43 AM

Doesn't help.  Seeing what my current bill is only 0.5 of the requirement.  And anyway bodges like this seem bizarre in the context of the sales pitch for Azure.

Hi andyksmith,

I understand it's a bit frustrating that there is no such public Billing API provided at this moment. We're aware of this request and relevant work is being done. Currently what perpetualKid suggested is the best alternative. You may utilize the following library to quickly build up an application to do automated processing:

http://watin.org/

 

Folks - there are two Azure APIs available for your use - Azure Usage API and Azure RateCard API:

Azure Cloud Cover Episode on Azure Billing APIs	https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode182-Usage-and-RateCard-APIs-with-Moinak-Bandyopadhyay
High-level article describing the IT Financial Management scenario with Azure Billing APIs	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-overview/
ScottGu's blog post describing the Azure Billing APIs	https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-azure-billing-apis-available
Partner Solution 1: Cloudyn	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-partner-solution-cloudyn/
Partner Solution 2: Cloud Cruiser	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-partner-solution-cloudcruiser/
Azure BillingCodeSamples GitHub Repo (C# samples)	https://github.com/Azure/BillingCodeSamples
Usage REST API Reference on MSDN	https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/1ea5b323-54bb-423d-916f-190de96c6a3c
RateCard REST API Reference on MSDN	https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/1ea5b323-54bb-423d-916f-190de96c6a3c
Find your OfferDurableID to call the RateCard API	https://account.windowsazure.com/Subscriptions -> Select subscription -> Bottom right corner
Find all OfferDurable IDs to get rates from RateCard APi	http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-details/   MS-AZR- + OfferNumber from the table.
Powershell Commandlet	get-UsageAggregates   Switch-AzureMode -Name AzureResourceManager Add-AzureAccount Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionId 'YOUR-AZURE-SUB-ID' $aggregate= get-UsageAggregates -ReportedStartTime "6/1/2015" -ReportedEndTime "6/18/2015" $aggregate
Nuget package	https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Commerce.UsageAggregates/
CLI	Once you install CLI, follow these steps:   Azure login 'YOUR-IDENTITY' Azure account set 'YOUR-SUBSCRIPTION-NAME' Azure config mode arm Azure  usage list --reportedStartTime 5/1/2015 --reportedEndTime 5/4/2015 (You can configure your own datetime)