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Managing Groups
- Updated on 04 Sep 2023
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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
- Click the three-dotted icon next to any group in the tree view to create a new one within that group
- Select New Cost Management Group
- Enter a name to the group and click Next
- Choose the necessary subscriptions for which the cost data is to be managed within the group
- Click Save
Scope selection
- Click the three-dotted icon next to the desired group in the tree view
- Select Scope selection
- Choose the required subscriptions. You can also specify a scope at which the subscription data is to be displayed
- Click Proceed
- Click Continue in the confirmation box
Edit a Group
- Click the three-dotted icon next to the desired group in the tree view
- Select the Edit option in the group context menu
- The name and description of the Cost group can be modified
- Click Update
Delete a Group
- Click the three-dotted icon next to the desired group in the tree view
- Select the Delete option in the group context menu
- Type the group name for confirmation
- 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.
- Click the Edit option in the Cost group Dashboard
- Click Add widget
- Enter a distinct name for the widget
- Select the list of subscriptions from the Subscriptions dropdown to visualize the cost data
- Choose an option in the Group by dropdown to group the cost data based on the selected option
- Select Granularity
- Choose one among the list of available chart types
- Select the cost type
- Select a time range to display data only from the selected time frame
- Filters can also be applied to view any specific cost data
- Click Add widget
- Click Update button in the dashboard
Cost Dashboard does not support Area chart when the Granularity is set to None.
Edit a widget
- Click the Edit option in the Cost group Dashboard
- Click Edit in the widget context menu
- Perform the required changes to the widget
- Click Update widget
- Click Update in the Dashboard
Delete a widget
- Click the Edit option in the Cost group Dashboard
- Click Delete in the widget context menu
- Click Update in the Dashboard