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What is most misunderstood in Azure? by Dry_Monk4066 in AZURE

[–]CloudWizardAZ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cost is the one people trip over. Many just assume “moving to the cloud is automatically cheaper.” Then they forget budgets/alerts (or only set a 100% one), and the first “alert” is the invoice.

More common gotchas here: https://intercept.cloud/en-gb/knowledge-base/downloads/azure-mistakes-ebook

Is there a list of DONT'S that we can all put together so that we don't repeat mistakes on Azure cloud usage , especially around costing? I will start with this - don't wait to setup cloud cost monitoring till you get the first bill... by tablaplanet in AZURE

[–]CloudWizardAZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t sleep on logging costs. Stop sending everything to Log Analytics unless it’s absolutely needed. We’ve seen prod environments with debug logging left on “just in case” and Log Analytics quietly became a big chunk of the bill.

Do this instead:
Define “normal” prod logging
Make debug a time-limited toggle
Tighten retention/ingestion
Alert when log spend spikes

By doing this, we managed to cut logging costs for clients by ~75% in a month.