A budget will give the ability to your resellers and direct customers to setup a threshold for the consumption of each of their Azure subscriptions. With budgets they can view If the current cost of their Azure subscription is reaching close to the cost budget they defined. This functionality is available only to your customers and resellers via your Storefront.

Define a Budget Alert

Your resellers and your customers will be able to define a budget alert from the details page of their Azure subscription.  This option is available only for active, suspended or pending for cancellation subscriptions.

By selecting the "New Budget Alert" action, the budget alert pop-up will be displayed for your reseller or customer to define the threshold he wants.

• Name: A description for this alert
• Budget Threshold: This field is for your reseller or customer to define the threshold he wants for the specific azure subscription. This field must be a positive number above the current consumption of the subscription.
• Alerts: In this section your customer or reseller can define which notifications will be sent and to whom.  For each alert he should define:
  • Recipient(s): A list of emails. When you create  a new alert, the system pre-fills this field with the recipients of the previous alert.
  • % of Budget and Amount. You can define a value only for one of these two fields, since by setting a value for one of the fields our system will calculate automatically the value for the second field using the budget threshold. 
    • % of Budget: It can an integer between 1 -100. Any value below 1 it will be replaced with 1 and any value above 100 it will be replaced with 100. 
    • Amount: It can be any positive decimal number below the budget threshold.