In this tutorial you will learn how to control your costs while exploring Azure services by creating Budgets in Cost Management and monitor any costs associated with your usage.

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1: Login to Azure portal and enter into Subscriptions service

2: On the Subscriptions blade click your subscription name. In this tutorial its Pay-As-You-Go

3: On the left side menu click Budgets under Cost Management

4: Click + Add button

5: On Create a budget tab under Budget Details

• provide a Name for your budget
• Reset Period = Monthly
• leave date period as default
• under Budget Amount enter desired value, here I have set my budget to $20

6: Click Next button

7: On Set alerts tab under Alert conditions enter the percentage (%) at which an alert has to be sent. In this tutorial I have set alerts at three stage 25%, 50% and 75% respectively

• enter your email-id at Alert recipients section

8: Click Create. Now your budget is ready

If you see a warning message as mentioned below don't worry, just provide a email-id at Alert recipients and the warning will disappear.

You can monitor by clicking the Budget name you just created.

Once you reach the threshold you will receive an alert via email