Azure Monitoring Bill

Dante Brown 0 Reputation points
2025-08-07T01:46:54.04+00:00

I am tryig to learn Azure. I configured monitoring in a dev environment 3 days ago and I now have a bill of over $1700! under "actual cost" but i dont have any data or compute hats going on here?

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Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor
An Azure service that is used to collect, analyze, and act on telemetry data from Azure and on-premises environments.
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  1. Clive Watson 7,866 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-08-07T14:11:28.9233333+00:00

    Hello, I'd start by looking in "Costs Analysis" (type that in the search in the azure portal)
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    and then "Visualise your costs" --> "Group by Meter", this will break down your items so you can see what is generating the $1700

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