We belong to bizspark program and have an Azure subscription that has been disabled.
Unfortunately, we don't know why and how to see what percentage of our resources is spent.
Anyone know also when Bizspark subscriptions are reenabled?
Your account has been disabled because you have reached your spending limit.
To get more information:
Go to manage.windowsazure.com
click on your email address in the top right corner
select Account
Log in
Click on your subscription and you can view a summary of charges
If you want your account to be re-enabled for this period, you will have to adjust your spending limit above $0. Be careful though, once you do that, I don't think you can go back.
Try going to https://account.windowsazure.com/Subscriptions (log in if necessary), and once you're there, click on the subscription in question. That should take you to a summary page on the billing for the account.
By default, it shows only the common usage metrics - it's likely you have exceeded one of these, and it should be easy to figure out which component put you over, but if not, try clicking the drop down that says "Show Common Usage" and change that to "Show All Usage".
As to your second question, the disable/re-enable cycle happens monthly, and if you've had your account for more than a month, it should have "snapped" to a period that spans from the first to the last of the month. If not, your period could be different, spanning from the first day you had the account to 30 days after, and "snapping" at that point, or it could be a pro-rated period that is from the first day of your account to the last day of the same month, with usage quotas pro-rated into it.
Regardless, your stuff should be re-enabled on the first day of the next billing period (which could be today, or perhaps September 1st, depending on what put you over).
I did face a similar issue with manage.windowsazure.com portal, but I'm successful in creating apps/site with the same subscription on the new portal (portal.azure.com). Once after creating an App/site in the new portal, this problem is resolved (even I'm able to publish from Visual Studio).
Hope this helps someone.
I had this problem but had definitely not reached my spending limit, I had $100 credit left. Yet I was getting the following message
We were unable to find any Active subscriptions associated with your account. SIGN UP FOR WINDOWS AZURE PRODUCTION PORTAL WINDOWS AZURE HOME PAGE CONTACT SUPPORT
In my case, it was because I had logged in to MSDN at some time with company credentials. So although the URL for my azure indicated my username and account such as:
https://manage.windowsazure.com/#mynamegmail.onmicrosoft.com#Workspaces/All/dashboard
Even though I had already selected sign out on MSDN, Somehow it was mixing the two accounts. I had to sign out of Azure from the Manage Azure screen and sign back in again with my personal Microsoft account.
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Background:
I've been searching for a way to properly monitor and create alerting on Azure cost for a resource group. All current monitoring and alerting seem to be related to budgets. You can set a budget, and can create alerts when you have spent more than x percent of that budget. However, suppose that I configure something wrong and create a resource that costs way too much money, and I burn through my monthly budget within a week. Now I will get an alert after a week, but the damage to my bill will already have been done.
What I am looking for:
I'd like to have some way of alerting if my daily spending shows some abnormal behavior (or I've spent more than x dollar/euro/whatever currency in the last day, of the last x days). This way, I can proactively react to wrong settings, and not only react once I've burned up my budget.
What I already tried:
I looked for a built in way, but there doesn't seem to be one.
I tried to use azure powershell or the API to export by resource group's cost, but the Azure Powershell billing methods seem to be broken (see this thread), and the API's documentation is a mess. There are like a million ways of fetching billing data, but none of them seem to work properly or return any usable data for my situation.
My specific question:
I'm looking for a way to fetch the current billing period's cost overview, either via the API, or azure powershell, so I can import it and create my own alerts. However if somebody can provide an alternative approach to accomplish my goal your answer is also welcome
Note the 1st answer was accurate, but I think you may not have made it to the second tab, Set alerts, where you can choose to set an alert at a percentage of the budget you just set up. See the Set alerts screen below.
I had a similar question, and you might have had the same concern. The resource manager has already set a budget, and I don't want to set a new budget, just an alert. So you can choose to Add a new budget if you wish, but you may also be able to:
Go to Budgets to find existing, primary budget
Select Edit budget (verify this accurately reflects your real/total budget)
Click on Set alerts
Create alerts as a percentage of the budget
I read that Azure allows you to go over budget. This month, my team went over budget, I want to keep the service open and am hoping for cheaper future months. To ensure things don't really get out of control, I've set up new, far-over-budget alerts. So for example, I now have 50, 90, 100, 200, and 300% alerts.
Set alerts tab within Create Budget screen
You can try the steps as below:
1.In azure portal, nav to your resource group.
2.In the left pane -> Cost Management -> Cost alerts(preivew) -> then click the Add button:
3.In the new page, fill in all the fields in 1. Create a budget and 2. Set alerts tab:
Good morning,
The management portal is showing me an orange alert which states that my credit will run out before my billing period. As soon as I saw the alert I went to the billing page and removed the spending limit for this period, however the management portal is still alerting me about the credit running out before time. Will the credit run out and my services stop even though I have removed the spending limit? or will it run out and continue billing me the extra dollars I need to make it through this period?
Thanks in advance
My understanding is that sometimes this change can take a while to be reflected in the portal even though it has been completed. Are there any alerts indicating that it was not successful?
In my Azure environment I am often tinkering around, adding new services, scaling roles up and down, etc. The problem is that I am always unsure as to how I may have affected my monthly bill. I'm also scared of forgetting to kill services after I don't need them (for example, I mistakenly had a Reporting Service running for a few weeks - very expensive!).
I'm looking for an add-on or service which can give be a basic idea of how much money I am consuming in Azure. I don't need something complicated. A graph or two could be great (perhaps a burn down).
I found these but without luck:
Foglight for Azure: This didn't work for me. All my figures showed up as 0.
Active Cloud Monitoring: This has been removed from the Azure add-ons.
Does anyone know of such a solution?
thank you for the question and the feedback. The new Azure portal, which is currently in public preview, does have this feature. You can try out the new portal at https://portal.azure.com/ . Once there, click on Billing tab on the left of the screen, which should bring up a billing summary for all your subscriptions. Click on the subscription that you need to check, and that will show you the billing details for that subscription. Details include subscription status, days left, current charges, burn down, and a breakdown of current charges by resource.
Please try this out and send your feedback using the "Give feedback" link at the top of the new portal page. You will have to click on your account name to see the "Give feedback" option in the drop down.
If you are using "Enterprise Agreement" as a billing option, the Azure portal does not provide sufficient billing information.
You could use Microsoft Power BI to import the data from Azure and use it for reporting. In Power BI you can use the Content pack "Microsoft Azure Enterprise" and connect it to your subscription. You will need the Enrollment number for your Enterprise Agreement and an API key to access the data.
A detailed explanation can be found in this blog entry.
I am hoping to use Windows Azure for an internal application at work. I have signed up, and hoping to take advantage of the FREE 90 day trial to see if it offers what we need.
So my question is, on the dashboard what do I need to select to get the free trial?
I do not want to select something which ends up costing us, while we are just looking into the possibility of using it. Or do I just what services we need and they are taken from the trial allowance?
You do whatever services you need and they are taken from the trial allowance.
If you hit the trial allowance all your services will be deleted, but the data in storage account will be kept. You will not be able to do anything until the next billing cycle begins.
When you create a trial by default it has "SPENDING LIMIT", be sure NOT TO REMOVE IT, if you do not want charges.
In my Windows Azure Management Portal, I still see the "3-Month Free Trial" subscription although it has already expired and been canceled automatically. I've deleted both the hosted service in it and also the database, but it still doesn't disappear.
What can I do to completely remove a subscription?
According to the Azure support it is (currently) not possible to delete canceled subscriptions.
Greetings from Microsoft Azure. I reviewed your request and would
like to mention that there is unfortunately no option to remove the
disabled subscription from the Azure portal. This is by design to
enable customer’s view the subscriptions purchased by them right from
the day the Azure account was created.
I consider this a bad design choice but that probably is just me.
Visit the portal. In the upper-right corner, you should see a link for Billing.
This will take you to a list of your subscriptions.
Select your subscription. Then, on the right side, you'll see a few options, and one toward the bottom should be 'Cancel Subscription.'
I cancelled a subscription a few months ago by calling support, and have had it sitting in the interface ever since. Recently they notified me that they are going to delete it (and its associated storage) soon. I expect it will disappear then. Therefore I think they keep the subscription around for a while in case you ring them up and say "Heh, I didn't really want to cancel that!".
Additionally you also cannot get your account completely deleted either. You can request for subscriptions to be cancelled (as per original question) and Azure Support can action that but they can't/won't remove your actual account/login.
I'm not sure, but according to this page it seems that subscriptions are permanently removed 30 to 90 days after cancellation.
You can remove your subscription via Azure PowerShell.
How to install: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azureps-cmdlets-docs/
How to use: C:\PS> Remove-AzureSubscription "Test"
https://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/dn495109.aspx