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Microsoft Cost Management APIs

Explore Microsoft Cost Management APIs to gain control over your Azure spending. Understand how to access billing details, analyze raw cost data, and automate budget creation and alerts using API endpoints, improving your organization’s cost tracking and optimization.

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Azure offers us some APIs that help an organization access the data of its resources. It helps organizations view the cloud cost data and enables them to have an entire view in a single dataset.

The three APIs that we’ll be discussing are related to cloud costs. These endpoints help in cost tracking, cost optimization, and setting up alerts for budgets.

These APIs are:

  • Azure Billing API
  • Cost details API
  • Azure Budgets API

Billing Account API

The Azure Billing API allows us to view and manage our billing info programmatically. This endpoint gives us the billing details of our associated subscriptions. This is a Get request, and we only need to replace billingAccountName with our billing Account ID.

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GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}?api-version=2019-10-01-preview

Note: Let’s understand the parameters for the GET request:

  • billingAccountName: This specifies the ID to uniquely identify a billing account.

  • api-version: This specifies the version of the API to be used with the client ...