Cost Allocation Rules - Check Name Availability

Reference

Service:: Cost Management

API Version:: 2024-08-01

Checks availability and correctness of a name for a cost allocation rule

POST https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountId}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/costAllocationRules/checkNameAvailability?api-version=2024-08-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
billingAccountId	path	True	string	BillingAccount ID
api-version	query	True	string	The API version to use for this operation.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Rule name
type	string	Resource type. This is expected to be Microsoft.CostManagement/costAllocationRules

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	CostAllocationRuleCheckNameAvailabilityResponse	Response of cost allocation rule name availability.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Error response describing why the operation failed

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

CostAllocationRuleCheckNameAvailability

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/100/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/costAllocationRules/checkNameAvailability?api-version=2024-08-01

{
  "name": "testRule",
  "type": "Microsoft.CostManagement/costAllocationRules"
}

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "nameAvailable": false,
  "reason": "AlreadyExists",
  "message": "A cost allocation rule with name testRule is already present for the billing account 100. Please specify a differnt name."
}

Definitions

Name	Description
CostAllocationRuleCheckNameAvailabilityRequest	The cost allocation rule check name availability request
CostAllocationRuleCheckNameAvailabilityResponse	The cost allocation rule check name availability response
ErrorDetails	The details of the error.
ErrorResponse	Error response indicates that the service is not able to process the incoming request. The reason is provided in the error message. Some Error responses: 429 TooManyRequests - Request is throttled. Retry after waiting for the time specified in the "x-ms-ratelimit-microsoft.consumption-retry-after" header. 503 ServiceUnavailable - Service is temporarily unavailable. Retry after waiting for the time specified in the "Retry-After" header.
Reason	The reason this name is not available.

CostAllocationRuleCheckNameAvailabilityRequest

The cost allocation rule check name availability request

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Rule name
type	string	Resource type. This is expected to be Microsoft.CostManagement/costAllocationRules

CostAllocationRuleCheckNameAvailabilityResponse

The cost allocation rule check name availability response

Name	Type	Description
message	string	Error message if the name is not available
nameAvailable	boolean	Whether this rule name is available
reason	Reason	The reason this name is not available

ErrorDetails

The details of the error.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	Error code.
message	string	Error message indicating why the operation failed.

ErrorResponse

Error response indicates that the service is not able to process the incoming request. The reason is provided in the error message.

Some Error responses:

429 TooManyRequests - Request is throttled. Retry after waiting for the time specified in the "x-ms-ratelimit-microsoft.consumption-retry-after" header.
503 ServiceUnavailable - Service is temporarily unavailable. Retry after waiting for the time specified in the "Retry-After" header.

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetails	The details of the error.

Reason

The reason this name is not available.

Name	Type	Description
AlreadyExists	string
Invalid	string
Valid	string

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