Pay as you go, seeing and changing the spending limit

Question

Where can I find the value of the spending limit on an Azure MSDN Dev/Test Pay-As-You-Go subscription and where can I alter that value.
On the "Summary for MSDN Dev/Test Pay-As-You-Go" page there is no "Alerts" option, there is only has "Overview" and "Billing history". On the Overview page there are seven items from "Change
payment method" to "Cancel Subscription", none of these show the current limit. The only options seem to be to remove the limit entirely or to cancel it. Nothing to actually modify the limiting value.
Regards
Adrian

Answer 1

Hi Adrian,
Spending limit : To protect you from accidentally incurring charges for usage beyond the included offer amount, Spending Limit feature was introduced.
New Users of azure that sign up for the trial offer or one of the member offers like MSDN offer will now, by default, have a Spending Limit of
₹0.
When the usage exhausts monthly amounts included in your offer, azure will disable the service for the remainder of that billing month, which includes removing any hosted services that you may have deployed. The data in your storage accounts
and databases will be accessible in a read-only manner. At the beginning of the next billing month, your subscription will be re-enabled and you can re-deploy your hosted service(s) and have full access to your storage accounts and databases.
You will receive notifications once you hit the spending limit for your offer. When you log in to the Azure website and click Accounts, you can click Subscriptions and you will see notifications about subscriptions that have reached the Spending Limit.
You can remove the Spending Limit at any time. However, once removed, the Spending Limit feature cannot be re-enabled. You should remove this Spending Limit on any subscription that has applications that you cannot afford to go offline.
The following is how you can remove your Spending Limit:
Log in to the Azure Account Center
Click Accounts
Click Subscriptions
Select a subscription e.g. Subscription 1
If the subscription has been disabled due to the Spending Limit being reached, click this notification: "Subscription reached the Spending Limit and has been disabled to prevent charges." Otherwise, click "Remove spending limit" in the
Tasks area.
When you create a Microsoft Azure subscription through a member offer-- the MSDN benefit or the Microsoft Partner Network Cloud Essentials program, for example--a
spending limit of 0 is turned on automatically. The spending limit helps ensure you don’t get charged when the credits on your subscription run out. The spending limit feature isn’t available for other subscription types such as the Free Trial offer,
pay-as-you-go subscriptions, and commitment plans.
With the spending limit turned on, when your credits are used up, Azure de-provisions subscription resources so you don’t get charged--for example, cloud services that you deployed are removed from production and your Azure virtual machines are stopped and
de-allocated. Wherever possible, data and settings are maintained, and administrators have read-only access to data in storage and databases so they can redeploy services when the subscription is re-activated. However, services and resources may lose important
settings like virtual IP addresses (VIPs) when they are de-provisioned.
Because some settings tied to the physical instances of your services may be lost, if you run important or essential services through your subscription, remove the spending limit to help ensure service and data continuity.
If you remove the spending limit, Azure begins charging for services at the pay-as-you-go rate when your credits are used up. Charges continue until credits become available for use at the next billing cycle, or until you turn on the spending limit again.
Changing the spending limit : If your subscription has a spending limit, a yellow banner appears under its listing in the Subscriptions area of the
Account Center. To view subscription information here, you must be the Account Administrator. If there’s no yellow banner, the subscription isn’t eligible for a spending limit.
Click the text in the banner to change how the spending limit is applied. You can’t change the amount of the spending limit. It’s always 0.
If you remove the spending limit, the earliest you can turn it back on is at the start of the next billing cycle.
Regards,
Shirisha Paderu