Cost Allocation Rules - Get

Reference

Service:: Cost Management

API Version:: 2024-08-01

Get a cost allocation rule by rule name and billing account or enterprise enrollment.

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

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description

billingAccountId

path

True

string

BillingAccount ID

ruleName

path

True

string

Cost allocation rule name. The name cannot include spaces or any non alphanumeric characters other than '_' and '-'. The max length is 260 characters.

Regex pattern: [A-Za-z0-9\-_]+

api-version

query

True

string

The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	CostAllocationRuleDefinition	OK. The request has succeeded.
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

CostAllocationRules

Sample request

HTTP

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

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "id": "providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/100/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/costAllocationRules/testRule",
  "name": "testRule",
  "type": "Microsoft.CostManagement/costAllocationRules",
  "properties": {
    "description": "This is a testRule",
    "createdDate": "2020-06-18T22:21:51.1287144Z",
    "updatedDate": "2020-06-18T22:21:51.1287144Z",
    "status": "NotActive",
    "details": {
      "sourceResources": [
        {
          "resourceType": "Dimension",
          "name": "ResourceGroupName",
          "values": [
            "sampleRG"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "targetResources": [
        {
          "resourceType": "Dimension",
          "policyType": "FixedProportion",
          "name": "ResourceGroupName",
          "values": [
            {
              "name": "destinationRG",
              "percentage": 50
            },
            {
              "name": "destinationRG2",
              "percentage": 50
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Definitions

Name	Description
CostAllocationPolicyType	Method to use for allocating cost. FixedProportion indicates that cost will be split based on specified percentage values.
CostAllocationProportion	Target resources and allocation
CostAllocationResourceType	Category of resource to use for allocation.
CostAllocationRuleDefinition	The cost allocation rule model definition
CostAllocationRuleDetails	Resource details of the cost allocation rule
CostAllocationRuleProperties	The properties of a cost allocation rule
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.
RuleStatus	Current status of the rule.
SourceCostAllocationResource	Source resources for cost allocation
TargetCostAllocationResource	Target resources for cost allocation.

CostAllocationPolicyType

Method to use for allocating cost. FixedProportion indicates that cost will be split based on specified percentage values.

Name	Type	Description
FixedProportion	string

CostAllocationProportion

Target resources and allocation

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Target resource for cost allocation
percentage	number	Percentage of source cost to allocate to this resource. This value can be specified to two decimal places and the total percentage of all resources in this rule must sum to 100.00.

CostAllocationResourceType

Category of resource to use for allocation.

Name	Type	Description
Dimension	string	Indicates an Azure dimension such as a subscription id or resource group name is being used for allocation.
Tag	string	Allocates cost based on Azure Tag key value pairs.

CostAllocationRuleDefinition

The cost allocation rule model definition

Name	Type	Description
id	string	Azure Resource Manager Id for the rule. This is a read ony value.
name	string	Name of the rule. This is a read only value.
properties	CostAllocationRuleProperties	Cost allocation rule properties
type	string	Resource type of the rule. This is a read only value of Microsoft.CostManagement/CostAllocationRule.

CostAllocationRuleDetails

Resource details of the cost allocation rule

Name	Type	Description
sourceResources	SourceCostAllocationResource[]	Source resources for cost allocation. At this time, this list can contain no more than one element.
targetResources	TargetCostAllocationResource[]	Target resources for cost allocation. At this time, this list can contain no more than one element.

CostAllocationRuleProperties

The properties of a cost allocation rule

Name	Type	Description
createdDate	string	Time at which the rule was created. Rules that change cost for the same resource are applied in order of creation.
description	string	Description of a cost allocation rule.
details	CostAllocationRuleDetails	Resource information for the cost allocation rule
status	RuleStatus	Status of the rule
updatedDate	string	Time at which the rule was last updated.

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.

RuleStatus

Current status of the rule.

Name	Type	Description
Active	string	Rule is saved and impacting cost allocation.
NotActive	string	Rule is saved but not used to allocate costs.
Processing	string	Rule is saved and cost allocation is being updated. Readonly value that cannot be submitted in a put request.

SourceCostAllocationResource

Source resources for cost allocation

Name	Type	Description
name	string	If resource type is dimension, this must be either ResourceGroupName or SubscriptionId. If resource type is tag, this must be a valid Azure tag
resourceType	CostAllocationResourceType	Type of resources contained in this cost allocation rule
values	string[]	Source Resources for cost allocation. This list cannot contain more than 25 values.

TargetCostAllocationResource

Target resources for cost allocation.

Name	Type	Description
name	string	If resource type is dimension, this must be either ResourceGroupName or SubscriptionId. If resource type is tag, this must be a valid Azure tag
policyType	CostAllocationPolicyType	Method of cost allocation for the rule
resourceType	CostAllocationResourceType	Type of resources contained in this cost allocation rule
values	CostAllocationProportion[]	Target resources for cost allocation. This list cannot contain more than 25 values.