Azure Integration: Costs Metrics

Our goal at ControlUp is to help you manage your Azure cloud costs as efficiently as possible. The following article explains how to read Azure cost metrics within ControlUp and how to configure cost collection.

Cost-Related Metrics Per Service

You can view your costs by Azure component, such as Disk, Network, or Snapshot in the following views:

• Month-to-Date. The actual cost for the current calendar month.

• Last Month. The total cost sum of the last calendar month.

• Forecast. An estimate of your subscription costs based on the data from Azure.

The table below shows the implemented cost metrics in the Real-Time DX Console and the VDI App. For more information on Azure metrics, see Azure Integration: Columns & Grids Overview.

AVD-related cost metrics

Version 8.8 and higher includes month-to-date AVD costs. The following table provides an overview of AVD costs. A detailed overview of AVD integration metrics can be found in the article AVD Integration: Metrics Overview

General Cost Metrics

We defined additional cost metrics that aren't service related, such as forecast costs or the costs for machines that that were in Stopped mode.

• AZ Cost. Includes costs for non-IaaS resources.

• AZ Stopped Machines Cost (Last Month). The aggregated metric shows the costs associated with stopped machines in the past month.

• AZ Forecast Cost. Shows a projection of your Azure subscription's estimated costs.

Costs Views - Actual Costs vs. Amortized Costs

Azure offers customers significant cost saving opportunities. ControlUp allows you to represent costs in one of the following ways across the Real-Time DX Console and the VDI App:

• Actual Costs are the costs of resource consumption without reservations.

• Amortized Costs take upfront reservations into account. If you have reserved instances in your Azure environment, you will likely want to see the daily or monthly quota of this reservation. This cost view splits the reservation quota into a daily billing.

The currently used cost type is shown under the AZ Cost Type column.

How to Change the Cost Type

By default, all Azure costs are shown as Actual Costs. To see amortized costs, follow the steps below:

1. In the Controllers pane of the console, click Registry and select the data collector machine.

2. Under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Smart-X\ControlUp\Agent, create subkey Azure Data Collection. If this subkey already exists, skip to step 3.

   
   

   

3. Create the following value: AzureCostType, type: REG_DWORD, value data: ActualCost or AmortizedCost.

4. Restart the ControlUp Agent on the data collector to see the changes.

5. Connect again to your Azure subscription. After connecting, the cost view changes from ActualCost to AmortizedCost.

   
   

   

Billing Currency

The billing currency shown in AZ Currency column by default is US Dollars (USD). If your subscription is billed in another currency, follow the steps below:

use the following registry settings on the
on the data collector machine:

Registry Key: (create the ExclusionRules key if it does not exist):you need to create a new registry key on the data collector machine.

1. In the Controllers pane of the console, click Registry and select the data collector machine.

2. Under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Smart-X\ControlUp\Agent, create subkey Azure Data Collection. If this subkey already exists, skip to step 3.

3. Create the following value: AzureCurrencyType, type: REG_SZ, value data: CostUSD (default, costs in USD)or Cost (costs in subscription currency).

4. Restart the ControlUp Agent on the data collector to see the changes.