Billing details

Overview

Billing details is a document type in Azure Documenter that provides a detailed breakdown of costs incurred for each resource, resource group, location, and resource type across your Azure subscriptions for a specified billing period.

The Billing details document is organized per subscription and covers the billing period and currency configured when the document was generated.

Expense tables

For each subscription, the document provides the following expense tables:

• Resource group expenses — total cost incurred per resource group
• Resource expenses — cost incurred per individual resource
• Location expenses — cost incurred per Azure region
• Resource type expenses — cost incurred per Azure resource type
• Tag expenses — cost incurred grouped by resource tags; shown as "Unable to retrieve" if tag data is unavailable in Azure
• Service name expenses — cost incurred per Azure service name (e.g., SQL Database, Azure App Service, Virtual Network)

Each table shows the entity name alongside the Cost Incurred (USD) for the billing period.

Billing information charts

When Include cost charts is enabled, the document also includes a Billing Information section with pie charts visualizing the cost split for the billing period:

• Resource cost split up
• Resource type cost split up
• Location cost split up
• Resource group cost split up
• Tag cost split up
• Service name cost split up

Configuration

Use the following steps to generate a Billing details document. Navigate to Azure Documenter to get started.

1. Click New configuration. The Configure your document wizard opens.
2. In Step 1 — Basics, enter a configuration name. Under Choose document type, select Billing details. Configure the following options:
   • Billing range — the billing period for the report
   • Currency — Default or USD
   • Include cost charts — when enabled, the document includes pie chart visualizations for each cost dimension
3. In Step 2 — Service principal, select the service principal and configure the subscription scope. Click Next.
4. Complete Steps 3–6 (Branding, Publish settings, Schedule, Notifications) as required. Click Next after each step.
5. In Step 7 — Review, confirm your configuration and click Finish.

Once generation is complete, a URL is created for the document, and you can download it using the Download link.