All your Azure subscriptions. One daily cost signal.
StackSpend helps teams that are searching for an Azure billing dashboard, Azure subscription cost monitoring, or Azure Cost Management workflow. It connects through the Cost Management API with a read-only service principal, supports multi-subscription views, and adds daily alerts and forecasting.
Why Azure spend is hard to control
Azure Cost Management is a strong investigation tool but not a monitoring tool. You have to navigate to the portal and select a scope to see subscription costs. There is no daily push signal.
Multi-subscription visibility requires separate scope selections or complex cost management queries. Most teams end up looking at one subscription at a time rather than the full picture.
Azure OpenAI and other AI services blend into the infrastructure bill. There is no automatic separation of AI spend from cloud infrastructure without custom tagging and filtering.
What StackSpend shows for Azure
StackSpend connects via the Cost Management API using a read-only service principal. Multi-subscription supported — all your subscriptions appear in one view.
Daily cost signal in Slack or email. Anomaly detection, budget thresholds, and forecasting. Azure OpenAI costs visible alongside infrastructure.
90 days of history. Unified view across subscriptions and resource groups.
Exactly what we track
Setup guideWhat typically causes Azure costs to spike
A resource group created for a proof-of-concept is never cleaned up and runs for months
Azure OpenAI inference spend grows as a new product feature ships, invisible in the infrastructure bill
Reserved instance coverage lapses across a subscription and on-demand rates apply immediately
Cosmos DB request units are provisioned too high after load testing and never reduced
Why teams move beyond native Azure billing
Azure Cost Management is built for investigation. StackSpend is built for prevention.
Azure Cost Management
- Multi-subscription visibility requires separate views or complex scope configurations
- No push alerts — you have to navigate to the portal to check spend
- Azure OpenAI costs blend into the infrastructure bill without clear separation
- Cost Management is powerful for analysis but not designed for daily monitoring workflows
StackSpend
- Multi-subscription in one unified view without portal navigation
- Daily Slack or email signal — amber or red before month-end
- Azure OpenAI costs visible alongside infrastructure in one dashboard
- Anomaly detection and budget alerts without manual alert rule setup
What you get when you connect Azure
Most teams can connect and validate setup in about 5-10 minutes.
Read-only credentials only. StackSpend does not modify provider resources or billing settings.
Daily Slack or email updates, anomaly alerts, and budget tracking in one workflow.
Historical spend context plus pace-to-forecast so overruns are visible before month-end.
Frequently asked
Can StackSpend monitor Azure cost across multiple subscriptions?
How is this different from Azure Cost Management?
Can I track Azure cost by subscription and resource group?
Connect Azure. See your spend today.
Read-only setup in under 5 minutes. 90 days of Azure cost history loaded automatically. Daily signals from day one.