Enable User Cost Attribution

This feature is only available in the Nerdio Manager Premium edition.

Nerdio Manager allows you to capture and report on per-individual-user costs based on the allocation of the total cost of your AVD deployment (compute, storage, network, PaaS, SaaS, etc.) to individuals based on the duration of their usage of AVD desktops during the selected time frame. The report can be exported from Nerdio Manager in a CSV file or consumed in Power BI.

You must enable user cost attribution in order to perform the AVD cost analytics.

Notes:

This feature may only be enabled for subscriptions that support Azure Cost Management.
You must have Tenant-Level roles Global Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Application Administrator and the subscription-level roles Owner or User Access Administrator in order to enable this feature.
This feature is not supported when Nerdio Manager was install using the Split Identity method. See Advanced Installation: Split Identity for details.
Customized deployment of User Cost Attribution resources is supported. You need to first create resources in the Azure portal.

Enable User Cost Attribution

Follow this procedure to enable User Cost Attribution.

To enable user cost attribution:

Navigate to Settings > Integrations.
In the User cost attribution tile, select Disabled.
Enter the following information:
- Customize resources: Expand this to specify the customized resources.
  - App Service: From the drop-down list, select the app service or create a new one.
  - Key Vault: From the drop-down list, select the key vault or create a new one.
  - Storage Account: From the drop-down list, select the storage account or create a new one.
  - Application Insights: From the drop-down list, select the application insights or create a new one.
  - Log Analytics Workspace: From the drop-down list, select the LAW or create a new one.
  - App Registration ID: Type or paste the app registration ID.
  - App Registration Secret: Type or paste the app registration secret.
- Customize resource names: Expand this to specify the customized resource names that you previously created in the Azure portal.
  - App Service:Type the app service name.
  - App Registration:Type the app registration name.
  - Key Vault:Type the Key Vault name.
  - Storage Account:Type the storage account name.
  - App Insights:Type the app insights name.
  - Workspace:Type the workspace name.
- Customize resources tags: Expand this to enter customized resource tags.
Once you have entered the desired information, select Enable.

All the necessary resources are created automatically. You can see the task's progress in the Settings Tasks.

Tip: Select the tooltip next to Enabled to display the status of the user cost attribution.

Disable User Cost Attribution

Follow this procedure to disable User Cost Attribution.

To disable user cost attribution:

Navigate to Settings > Integrations.
In the User cost attribution tile, select Enabled.
Select the any of following components you wish to delete:
- Storage account
- Log Analytics Workspace
- App Registration and Service Principal
Delete the specified configurations one by one.
Once you have selected the components to delete and deleted all the specified configurations, select Disable.