While building CloudAlarm [0] (supports Azure as of now), we found that the usage data on Azure wasn't available for at least a day – in fact, they keep adding

While building CloudAlarm [0] (supports Azure as of now), we found that the usage data on Azure wasn't available for at least a day – in fact, they keep adding the data to it during the next day so technically two days would have passed when the actual usage data is available. I haven't gone deeper in AWS but they also gradually make the data available as per I've read. SO instantly alert we thought cannot be possible with usage and hence we chose a novel route – of 'New Resource' alarm – wherein you can get alerted for all resources created or for anything expensive than the tier you choose. The resources in your Azure subscription are available almost instantly via the API, so this was something a nice workaround we thought. 0: https://cloudalarm.in/ https://cloudalarm.in/