Azure Forecast in reports
As a customer, I would like to be able to see an estimated consumption for the current month.
Microsoft Cost Management (see examples attached) shows Azure Consumption forecast from current date until the end date of current month. We experience that particularly larger customers with a large azure consumption are using this Microsoft forecast to track their costs and for accounting practices.
Please enable for the Microsoft Azure Consumption Forecast to be shown in Azure Report as well.
Additionally, color indicators for e.g. different resources aids to quickly identify changes in cost distribution.
(Note: This was originally raised as a request to Atea Cloud Portal for the Azure Usage Report, but I was informed it is much more aligned with the idea of Cloud Insights, as ACP reports are more based on history and current status)
Patrick Pilgaard Thornvig Jensen
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Hi, thank you for your question.
Actually starting as of early July this year we have released a completely new feature within Cloud Insights and that is Cost Forecast. So the Cost Forecast functionality as of now is available in Cloud Insights and if the customer is using Cloud Insights. Here in the down below screenshot you can also see that it is possible to filter the forecast data per Subscriptions, per Resource Groups, per Service, per Service Family and per Tags (and per Tag value). But how the forecast feature within Cloud Insights works is that the forecast data currently is not available for the currently running month. Rather at the moment the forecast data is available for the next calendar month. But obviously if there is a lot of customer demands that would like to have the forecast data available for the currently running month then we can potentially add this improvement and build it as well.
PS. Please also see the attached Cost Forecast feature description documentation
