The nuts and bolts of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint
In my last post I showed how to get started with Azure OpenAI, the service which is effectively "Microsoft-hosted ChatGPT" but also includes other OpenAI models. In particular I showed how to integrate ChatGPT with the Power Platform via a custom connector that talks to your instance in Azure. If you're doing anything with Azure OpenAI it's a good idea to monitor costs, particularly if the service will be open to a few consumers - it's not the cheapest Azure service, and costs could accumulate quickly in so
What you can do of course, is use Azure Cost Management to implement a Budget which will notify you when costs are passing defined thresholds. This can alert an operations team that consumption is higher than expected, at which point some investigation and/or intervention action can occur. With many Azure services this is better than shutting down production use, which would leave teams scrambling to work out why a critical process is not working.