Estimating your Azure Monitor Logs costs – a hands-on example

Imagine that you are responsible for defining the monitoring requirements for a new application that is going to be deployed in Azure. You need to provide an estimation of cost to your supervisor before the deployment is approved.

Microsoft provides the Azure Pricing Calculator (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/) as a reference tool to estimate the cost of your infrastructure on Azure. As shown in the following screenshot, you can search for any of the available Azure services and include them in your estimation.

If you look for Azure Monitor and add it to your estimation, a similar wizard to the one shown in the following screenshot will appear. As you can see, there are multiple options to introduce the details of the features in use to get your total estimate. The following example uses this calculator to estimate costs.

Figure 11.6 – Partial details of...