The Price Particulars API is now usually accessible to be used by Enterprise Settlement (EA) and Microsoft Buyer Settlement (MCA) clients. This API gives on-demand obtain of the granular price particulars (previously known as utilization particulars) related along with your Microsoft costs. The API replaces all current Utilization Particulars APIs and gives information for costs in your bill. For purchasers with an MCA settlement this contains Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Energy Platform, and Azure costs. This API is the go-to resolution, together with Exports, for ingesting the uncooked price information wanted to construct any customized reporting resolution. To study extra about how you can name the Price Particulars API, please see our documentation on how you can get small price datasets on demand.
Clients that aren’t utilizing Exports or the Price Particulars API ought to migrate to one in all these options transferring ahead. To study extra about which resolution is finest in your situation, see our choosing a price particulars resolution finest practices.
Advantages of the brand new options
Each the Price Particulars API and Exports present intensive advantages on prime of current options in the present day.
- Safety and stability—New options require Service Principal and/or consumer tokens with a view to entry information. For EA clients, keys used within the EA Reporting APIs are legitimate for six months. Going ahead it is strongly recommended to make use of token-based options by way of Service Principal or Person authentication, in line with Azure REST APIs.
- Scalability—The EA Reporting APIs (accessible just for EA clients) and the Consumption Utilization Particulars (accessible for each EA and MCA clients) aren’t constructed to scale effectively as your Microsoft and Azure prices improve. The variety of Azure price information in your price particulars dataset can get exceedingly massive as you deploy extra sources into the cloud. The brand new options are asynchronous and have intensive infrastructure enhancements behind them to make sure profitable downloads for any measurement dataset.
- Single dataset for all utilization particulars—For EA clients, the prevailing EA Reporting APIs have separate endpoints for Azure utilization costs versus Azure Market costs. These datasets have been merged within the new options. A single dataset reduces the variety of APIs that you’ll want to name to see all of your costs.
- Buy amortization—Clients who buy Reservations can see an amortized view of their prices utilizing the brand new options. You may request for amortized or precise price datasets as a part of report configuration. Study extra about utilizing amortized price particulars datasets.
- Schema consistency—The Price Particulars API and Exports present recordsdata with matching fields. This lets you simply transfer between options based mostly in your situation. Study extra in regards to the fields accessible and perceive price particulars information fields.
- Price allocation integration—EA and MCA clients can use the brand new options to view costs in relation to the associated fee allocation guidelines which have been configured. Study extra about creating and managing Azure price allocation guidelines.
- Go ahead enhancements—The brand new options are being actively developed transferring ahead. They’re going to obtain all new options as they’re launched.
Migrating to the brand new options
The EA Reporting APIs and the Consumption Utilization Particulars API are now not actively being developed. We strongly advocate migrating off these APIs as quickly as potential. A retirement announcement will likely be made sooner or later with formal timelines for when the APIs will likely be turned off. Nevertheless, the APIs will likely be absolutely supported from a reliability standpoint till the formal retirement date is reached.
When assessing the migration off current utilization particulars options, please use the paperwork under as a reference level:
Please observe that pay-as-you-go, MSDN, and Visible Studio clients who will not be part of both an Enterprise Settlement (EA) or Microsoft Buyer Settlement (MCA) ought to proceed utilizing the Consumption Utilization Particulars API.
Subsequent steps
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