Expose billing usage on free tiers
An email was just sent out with the following information:
As a user of the App Services free tier, we have some exciting updates for you. After receiving your feedback, we will be moving to a daily free tier model that provides more clarity and makes it easier for you to track your usage.
In July, you’ll see an updated App Services UI dashboard that reflects this daily free tier usage rather than the current monthly model.
In this new model, the following daily free tier limits will apply:
• 50,000 Requests
• 0.5 GB of Data Transfer
• 25 Hrs of Compute Runtime
• 30,000 Minutes of Sync Runtime
My immediate instinct was to check Atlas to see what my current usage is. However, this is disabled because the free tier is on a shared cluster. I spoke to custom support via live chat who told me that it's not possible, and free tier limits will be handled on an automated basis.
Ultimately, the service that I use is swayed by the cost to me as the user. I asked for my historic usage to see if I am going to hit any of these daily limits - not possible.
We should be able to see what our usage has been/currently is so that we can make informed decisions on the financial decisions that we make.
Thanks