Question

A company runs multiple production subscriptions under a single management group. The finance team wants to be proactively notified when actual or forecasted spending in any subscription exceeds predefined thresholds, and they also want automated email alerts sent to department owners when unusual spending spikes occur. The solution must require minimal custom development and should not depend on writing Kusto queries. What should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Configure Azure Cost Management budgets with action groups for threshold alerts, and enable cost anomaly detection alerts scoped to each subscription.

Answer

Create Azure Monitor metric alerts on the Microsoft.Consumption resource provider and route them through Logic Apps.

Answer

Export cost data to a Log Analytics workspace and build scheduled KQL log alerts that email department owners.

Answer

Apply Azure Policy with a deny effect that blocks resource creation once a subscription reaches its monthly spending limit.