Clear answers for Azure cost monitoring in CostRadar
Read client-facing guidance on connecting Azure, interpreting cost data, managing plans, and knowing when to contact human support.
Account deletion, data retention, and privacy boundaries
What customers should know about deleting a CostRadar account, retained records, and data access boundaries.
Alerts, digests, webhooks, and budget tracking
What CostRadar notifications and budget tracking are intended to do, with careful boundaries around enforcement and timing.
Anomaly detection and CR references
How CostRadar detects billing anomalies and how to use CR-XXXX references in alerts, dashboard cards, and support conversations.
Connecting Azure with read-only access
How CostRadar connects to Azure using a service principal, subscription Reader, and Storage Blob Data Reader for storage exports.
Why Azure cost data can be delayed
How Azure billing data timing affects CostRadar charts, current-month estimates, and anomaly detection.
Billing, cancellation, downgrade, and refund help
Support-level guidance for CostRadar billing questions, cancellations, downgrades, and refund review.
Disconnecting and reconnecting an Azure subscription
How an owner disconnects Azure monitoring, what happens to history, and what to check before reconnecting.
Do Azure budget alerts stop spending?
Azure budgets notify you about reported or forecast costs, but do not cap spending. Learn how to configure useful alerts and understand their limits.
Plans, trial, billing, and limits
Current support-level guidance for CostRadar plans, trial access, monthly billing, and subscription or viewer limits.
Reports, exports, Advisor recommendations, and cost allocation
How CostRadar reports, exports, Azure Advisor recommendations, and allocation views should be used.
Set up Slack webhook notifications
Set up Slack webhooks for CostRadar notifications, test delivery, replace a URL, and understand why GovSlack is not supported.
Team roles, viewer access, and the audit log
How account owners and viewers work in CostRadar, and what the audit log records.
Set up Microsoft Teams webhook notifications
Create a Teams Workflow, copy its full webhook URL into CostRadar Alert Channels, test delivery, and troubleshoot permissions.
Troubleshooting Azure connection and no-data issues
Common fixes for Azure connection errors, cost pull failures, no data, access denied, and expired client secrets.
Using Azure Cost Management Storage Export with CostRadar
How to configure Azure Cost Management exports to a storage account and connect those exported files in CostRadar.
A weekly Azure cost-review checklist for small teams
A repeatable Azure cost review covering data freshness, spending changes, budget alerts, ownership, and follow-up without requiring another tool.
What CostRadar is and what it can do
A plain-language overview of CostRadar's Azure cost monitoring, where it helps, and where it intentionally does not act for you.
When to email human support
Situations where customers should email human support for account, billing, privacy, or ambiguous product issues.
Why did my Azure bill suddenly increase?
A practical checklist for tracing an unexpected Azure cost increase by date, service, resource, and billing basis before changing anything.