How to lookup subscription usage when it is being paid by Azure sponsorship?

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How to lookup subscription usage when it is being paid by Azure sponsorship?

Wasay 0

Hello everyone,

I’m hoping someone can clarify how to generate a usage and cost report for an entire resource group.

My company is a Microsoft Partner, and our subscription is currently using Azure Sponsorship credits. We have multiple resource groups under this subscription, and for one specific resource group I need to pull a detailed usage report.

However, I’m running into an issue: I can no longer view usage details for the resource group, and the invoice section is also unavailable, which makes sense under sponsorship credits — but I don’t understand why the usage reports themselves are no longer accessible.

What I specifically need is a breakdown of usage and cost for resources such as:

Virtual Machines

Network Security Groups

DNS Zones

Storage Accounts

And other related services

At the moment, I cannot find any place in the portal where the usage data for the resource group is visible.

Has anyone dealt with this under Azure Sponsorship subscriptions? Is there a way to generate a resource-group-level usage or cost report when invoices and standard cost views are disabled?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Suchitra Suregaunkar 16,780 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-06-29T17:24:16.25+00:00

Hello Wasay
Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A platform.

We are looking into your issue and will keep you posted updates.

Thanks,

Suchitra.
Suchitra Suregaunkar 16,780 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-06-30T02:05:37.8866667+00:00

Hello Wasay

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Thanks,

Suchitra.

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Suchitra Suregaunkar 16,780 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-06-29T17:24:16.25+00:00

Hello Wasay
Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A platform.

We are looking into your issue and will keep you posted updates.

Thanks,

Suchitra.
Suchitra Suregaunkar 16,780 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-06-30T02:05:37.8866667+00:00

Hello Wasay

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Suchitra.

Answer 1

Hello Wasay

This is actually expected behavior, not a bug in the portal. Azure Cost Management (Cost analysis, budgets, exports, alerts) is only supported for specific offer types namely Enterprise Agreement (EA), Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), and Web Direct/Pay-As-You-Go. The Azure Sponsorship offers (MS-AZR-0036P and EA Sponsorship MS-AZR-0136P) are explicitly not supported in Cost Management, which is why the subscription appears greyed out with "Cost Management not supported for this account type" and why the invoice section is unavailable.

So, the limitation you're hitting on the resource-group-level cost view in the Azure portal is by design for the sponsorship offer.

Only the Account Owner of the sponsorship can view consumption, and it's done through the dedicated Sponsorship portal not through Cost Management:

Sign in to https://www.microsoftazuresponsorships.com/ with the Account Owner credentials (the same account ID used to provision the sponsorship). Other users (including Resource Group owners) won't see data here.
Select Check Your Balance to see remaining credit / cumulative usage.
Select Usage Details to drill into consumption. From the Balance page you can also download a usage report (CSV) this is the official way the Account Owner gets a detailed breakdown.

Note: The native sponsorship portal view aggregates by service, not by resource group. There is no built-in resource-group-level cost report for sponsorship subscriptions today.

Since native RG-level reporting isn't available for the sponsorship offer, the supported approach is to export the usage CSV and roll it up yourself:

Download the Usage Details CSV from microsoftazuresponsorships.com/balance (Account Owner only).
Each row has a ResourceId / InstanceId in the form /subscriptions/<sub>/resourceGroups/<rg-name>/providers/... Extract the segment after /resourceGroups/ to get the RG name.
In Excel, use a PivotTable on the extracted RG column to sum cost/quantity per resource group, and filter to the resource types you care about (Virtual Machines, NSGs, DNS Zones, Storage Accounts, etc.).
If your sponsorship export doesn't include a Cost column, you can estimate spend by joining the meter IDs against the Azure Retail Prices REST API, which is publicly accessible and doesn't require Cost Management.

Apply resource tags (e.g., RG=<name>, Owner=<team>) on all resources going forward. Tags flow into the usage CSV and make per-RG / per-owner pivots much cleaner.

Once you hit your Usage Cap or End Date, the subscription automatically converts to Pay-As-You-Go (or EA, depending on the offer). At that point the offer type becomes one that Cost Management supports, and you'll regain the native Cost analysis experience in the Azure portal including the resource-group scope, budgets, alerts, and scheduled exports.

References:

Microsoft Azure Sponsorship Offer (MS-AZR-0036P – terms, conversion to PAYG): azure.microsoft.com
Microsoft Azure Sponsorships portal (Balance / Usage Details): microsoftazuresponsorships.com

Hope this helps — please mark as Accepted Answer if it resolves your question.

Thanks,

Suchitra.

Wasay 0 Reputation points

2026-06-30T17:17:33.8866667+00:00

Hello Suchitra,

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I appreciate the clarification on how Azure Sponsorship subscriptions differ from EA, MCA, and PAYG offers, and I understand now why Cost Management features are unavailable in the portal for this subscription type.

I also understand that only the Account Owner can view consumption through the Sponsorship portal and that the usage CSV/JSON is currently the only supported method for getting detailed consumption data. However, this is where I’m still struggling.

Even with the CSV export, it’s difficult to work with the data in a meaningful way. The usage file doesn’t provide a straightforward way to map costs back to resource groups, and the decimal‑based quantities and costs make interpretation challenging. While I see that the ResourceId can be parsed to extract the resource group name, the overall process is still quite manual and time‑consuming; especially when trying to produce a clear cost breakdown for an application.

My concern is that this creates a significant overhead for developers using sponsorship credits. The credits are meant to support experimentation, demos, and POCs, but without accessible cost visibility, it becomes difficult to understand the true operational cost of what we’re building.

I’m not directing this toward you personally; I appreciate your help and the clarity you’ve provided. I simply hope this feedback can be shared with the engineering team. A more streamlined way to view costs, even at a basic resource‑group level, would make the sponsorship experience far more practical for developers.

Thank you again for your assistance.
Suchitra Suregaunkar 16,780 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-07-03T00:29:52.97+00:00

Hello Wasay

Please have a look into private message and revert back.

Thank you.
Zoran Stanojevic 0 Reputation points

2026-09-29T13:59:09.7+00:00

It isn't working because the provided answer doesn't match the actual export data. The export from the Sponsorship platform includes a ResourceGuid column in the format: c80a3636-2edb-4248-bcb1-04ef818a75ac. This ID does not match any ID in the Azure platform. Am I missing something?

These are the real columns from the Azure Sponsorship platform:

SubscriptionName

SubscriptionGuid

Date

ResourceGuid

ServiceName

ServiceType

ServiceRegion

ServiceResource

Quantity

Cost
Zoran Stanojevic 0 Reputation points

2026-09-29T13:59:55.33+00:00

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