Spending trackers in the account console, under Usage > Budgets, that follow monthly cost either account-wide or filtered by workspace and custom tag, emailing warnings at as many as four levels. They only alert: no compute is ever stopped.
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Terms in this definition
- total_tokens
The usage field that sums prompt_tokens and completion_tokens, for example 37 + 86 = 123. Billing applies to both kinds of token.
- Budgets
In Cost Management, spending limits you can scope and filter by tag, which raise alerts when actual or forecast spend nears or passes them.
- Workspace
Teams in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric collaborate in this folder-style container, which groups items such as reports, semantic models and lakehouses, controls who can access them and is assigned a capacity.
- Tag
Key-value label on compute (for cost tracking) or on a Unity Catalog securable or column, applied with
SET TAGorSET TAGSand requiringAPPLY TAG. Governed tags restrict allowed keys, values and assigners across the account.