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Subscription's Usage Records

For a customer / reseller to view the consumption of his Azure subscriptions, he must login in CSP's Storefront and to open the subscription details page from the Billing > Subscriptions menu.

In the details page there is the section Usage Records where the customer can see the usage records for the subscription.
 

The usage records are grouped by the resources groups the customer defined in Azure portal. For each usage record, we display the following information:

• Resource Name (as defined by user in Azure portal) - Name (as defined by Azure)
  The "Name (as defined by Azure)" is not displayed when the Meter Category or Sub Category is Cloud Services, Networking - Basic Application Gateway, Networking - Public IP Addresses and Virtual Machines
• Resource Meter Category
• Resource Meter Subcategory
• Usage for the current billing cycle until the last update
  
• Price for the displayed Usage.
  If the subscription is billed to a customer / reseller that has a discount (check Defining the Azure Product for setting a discount percentage), the price is after applying the discount to Microsoft's suggested retail price. 

How many hours / minutes before these usage records were collected, it is displayed in Updated field. If you want the usage records to be collected sooner, you can change this by following the instruction explained in page Setting how often Azure Usage Records are Collected. 

Understanding Subscription's Estimated Amount

In subscription details page, the customer can see not only the Total Amount,  that is the current cost of the Azure Subsccription, but also the Estimated Amount that is a projection of the current consumption until the end of the current billing cycle.  It is calculated as the sum of:

• The amount of all resources that are NOT currently active/running, but were used from the beginning of the billing cycle till the time of estimation, e.g. a VM that is now Stopped and De allocated/Deleted.
• The amount of all active resources' usage up till the time of estimation e.g. Running VMs.
• The pricing of all currently active resources that are billed per hour, multiplied by the hours remaining to the end of the billing period, which is a prediction for the amount if all active resources remain active till the end of the billing period.
• For the active resources that are not billed per hour we estimate the usage until the end of the month by multiplying the current usage to the percentage of month spent, 
  eg: On the 5th of September, if usage is 12 GB, then the projected usage will be 12 GB x (30 days for September / 5 days spent) = 72 GB