Managing Groups

Introduction

Cost Management Groups can be created to organize the Azure Subscriptions and perform Cost Analysis, Cost Monitoring, and Cost optimization on them.

A Cost Management Group can contain multiple sub-groups.

Group Overview

The Overview section of a group holds a set of widgets that consists of details related to Cost Monitoring, Cost Optimization Schedules, Cost charts based on Resource/Resource Group/Location, and logs on the recent activities of Optimization and Monitoring alerts.

The data points of the cost charts can be clicked to expand the cost based on different categories.

Add a Group

1. Click the three-dotted icon next to any group in the tree view to create a new one within that group
2. Select New Cost Management Group
3. Enter a name to the group and click Next
4. Choose the necessary subscriptions for which the cost data is to be managed within the group
5. Click Save

Scope selection

1. Click the three-dotted icon next to the desired group in the tree view
2. Select Scope selection
3. Choose the required subscriptions. You can also specify a scope at which the subscription data is to be displayed
4. Click Proceed
5. Click Continue in the confirmation box

Edit a Group

1. Click the three-dotted icon next to the desired group in the tree view
2. Select the Edit option in the group context menu
3. The name and description of the Cost group can be modified
4. Click Update

Delete a Group

1. Click the three-dotted icon next to the desired group in the tree view
2. Select the Delete option in the group context menu
3. Type the group name for confirmation
4. Click Delete

Cost Dashboard

A predefined set of cost charts based on Resource Group, Resource, and Location are readily available in the Overview section when a Cost group is created.

Add a widget

In addition to the existing widgets, new ones can be added to the Cost Dashboard.

1. Click the Edit option in the Cost group Dashboard
2. Click Add widget
3. Enter a distinct name for the widget
4. Select the list of subscriptions from the Subscriptions dropdown to visualize the cost data
5. Choose an option in the Group by dropdown to group the cost data based on the selected option
6. Select Granularity
7. Choose one among the list of available chart types
8. Select the cost type
9. Select a time range to display data only from the selected time frame
10. Filters can also be applied to view any specific cost data
11. Click Add widget
12. Click Update button in the dashboard

Edit a widget

1. Click the Edit option in the Cost group Dashboard
2. Click Edit in the widget context menu
3. Perform the required changes to the widget
4. Click Update widget
5. Click Update in the Dashboard

Delete a widget

1. Click the Edit option in the Cost group Dashboard
2. Click Delete in the widget context menu
3. Click Update in the Dashboard

Health indicator

The health status of a Cost group in the tree view is based on the Group budget monitoring alert incidents for the current date. Closing all open incidents from the present date will update the Cost group status to healthy.

Below is an illustration showing the health status of a cost group changing to healthy after manually closing all active Group budget incidents from the present date: