Whilst Power BI's Azure
Enterprise Content Pack gives you pre-built dashboards to expose your Azure
Enterprise costs, it may not provide the level of detail required to really
drill-down into the finer detail of resource costs for your Azure
subscriptions.
What if you wanted
to tag
resources to identify those that belong to your enterprises products or
services and report on costs for each. For example, perhaps you'd like to be
able to find out how much was spent on Azure Compute resources (Virtual
Machines) and storage during the first month of an online service that you've
just launched. Your VMs might be spread across Resource Groups, with their
storage being held in storage accounts in multiple regions. In order to easily
differentiate those resources that are dedicated to the new service from
existing resources you could tag those resources as follows:
"service"
: "ournewservice"
Using Microsoft's
Power BI you can then connect to your Azure Enterprise billing data via the
Azure Enterprise (Beta) Data Connection, see here.
The Power BI
approach then enables reports and dashboards to be built that display Azure
Resource costs per service, by grouping and filtering on resource tags. If you
have multiple tag names, then Power BI gives you the ability to split these out
into dedicated columns from which tag-specific reports can be built.
