Automation for partners

Microsoft Cost Management is natively available for direct partners who onboarded their customers to a Microsoft Customer Agreement and purchased an Azure Plan. Partners and their customers can use Cost Management APIs common tasks. For more information about nonautomation scenarios, see Cost Management for Partners.

Microsoft Cost Management APIs - Direct and indirect providers

Partners with access to billing scopes in a partner tenant can use the following APIs to view invoiced costs.

Partners can call APIs at the subscription scope regardless of the cost policy, as long as they have access to the subscription. Other users with access to the subscription, like the customer or reseller, can call the APIs only after the partner enables the cost policy for the customer tenant.

To get a list of billing accounts

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts?api-version=2019-10-01-preview 

To get a list of customers

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/customers?api-version=2019-10-01-preview 

To get a list of subscriptions

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/billingSubscriptions?api-version=2019-10-01-preview 

To get a list of invoices for a specific period

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/invoices?api-version=2019-10-01-preview&periodStartDate={periodStartDate}&periodEndDate={periodEndDate} 

The API call returns an array of invoices that has elements similar to the following JSON code.

   {      "id": "/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountID}/billingProfiles/{BillingProfileID}/invoices/{InvoiceID}",      "name": "{InvoiceID}",      "properties": {        "amountDue": {          "currency": "USD",          "value": x.xx        },        ...    } 

To query for usage details, use the preceding returned ID field value and replace it in the following example as the scope.

GET https://management.azure.com/{id}/providers/Microsoft.Consumption/UsageDetails?api-version=2019-10-01 

The example returns the usage records associated with the specific invoice.

To get the policy for customers to view costs

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/customers/{customerID}/policies/default?api-version=2019-10-01-preview 

To set the policy for customers to view costs

PUT https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/customers/{customerID}/policies/default?api-version=2019-10-01-preview 

To get Azure service usage for a billing account

We recommend that you configure an Export for these scenarios. For more information, see Retrieve large usage datasets with exports.

To download a customer's Azure service usage

We recommend that you configure an Export for this scenario as well. If you need to download the data on demand, however, you can use the Cost Details API. For more information, see Get small cost datasets on demand.

To get or download the price sheet for consumed Azure services

First, use the following post.

POST https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/BillingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/billingProfiles/{billingProfileID}/pricesheet/default/download?api-version=2019-10-01-preview&format=csv" -verbose 

Then, call the asynchronous operation property value. For example:

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/billingProfiles/{billingProfileID}/pricesheetDownloadOperations/{operation}?sessiontoken=0:11186&api-version=2019-10-01-preview 

The preceding get call returns the download link containing the price sheet.

To get aggregated costs

POST https://management.azure.com/providers/microsoft.billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/providers/microsoft.costmanagement/query?api-version=2019-10-01 

Create a budget for a partner

PUT https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/budgets/partnerworkshopbudget?api-version=2019-10-01 

Create a budget for a customer

PUT https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountName}/customers/{customerID}/providers/Microsoft.Consumption/budgets/{budgetName}?api-version=2019-10-01 

Delete a budget

DELETE https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountId}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/budgets/{budgetName}?api-version=2019-10-01 

Related content

• Learn more about Cost Management automation at Cost Management automation overview. Automation scenarios.
• Get started with Cost Management for partners.
• Retrieve large usage datasets with exports.
• Understand usage details fields.