Azure Budget Alerts in Microsoft Teams

What it is

This Azure template deploys and configures budget alerts at the subscription level and notifies the user in Microsoft Teams via an adaptive card when a budget threshold is met.

Note : Cost and usage data is typically available within 8-24 hours and budgets are evaluated against these costs every 24 hours. Check Create and manage Azure budgets if you need more details on budgets and alerts configuration for Azure.

Solution overview

High Level Design

• The solution enables 2 Azure Budget alerts at the Azure subscription level

  • Alert #1 is triggered when actual costs reach 80% of the total monthly budget threshold
  • Alert #2 is triggered when forecasted costs reach 100% of the total monthly threshold

• The budget alert triggers an action groups that in turns triggers an HTTP Azure Logic App

• The Azure Logic App then in turns creates an adaptive cards and pushes the notification to the user into Microsoft Teams

Here is what the adaptive cards in Microsoft Teams look like

Azure Budget Alert (actual costs) - Teams Adaptive Card

Azure Budget Alert (forecasted costs) - Teams Adaptive Card

Note : the Azure ARM template deploys resource at the subscription and resource group level - This is why you'll be asked to enter the resource group name and location twice in the Azure Portal wizard. Make sure you enter the same values.

How to deploy the solution

Input parameters :

Parameter	Description
rgName	Azure resource group name
rgLocation	Azure resource group location
resourcePrefix	Prefix to your Azure resourcecs names
azureBudget	Your Azure monthly budget (in USD)
recipient	e-mail address (UPN) of the user that will receive the notification in Microsoft Teams
startDay	First day of the current month (format : YYYY/MM/01)

Option 1 - via the Azure portal

Option 2 - via PowerShell

$RGname="RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME"
$region="AZURE_REGION"
$params = @{
    rgName = $RGname
    rgLocation = $region
    recipient = "USER_EMAIL_ADDRESS_IN_TEAMS"
    resourcePrefix = "AZURE_RESOURCE_PREFIX"
}
$deployName=("deploy-" + (Get-date -Format "yymmdd-hhmmss"))

New-AzResourceGroup -Name $RGName -Location $region
New-AzDeployment -Name $deployName -Location $region -TemplateFile ./azuredeploy.json -TemplateParameterObject $params

Note : you can find this script in this repository under ./deployment/deploy.ps1

Once the deployment is over.... authorize your Teams connection

• Connect to the Azure portal
• Go to the "API Connection" deployed in your resourge group
• Select "Edit API connection"
• Click on "Authorize" and provide your Azure AD credential
• Click on "Save"

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