Azure Snapshot storage types that fall under Other service category.

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

Azure Snapshot storage type such as Standard HDD Managed Disks are falling under 'Other' service category instead of the 'Disks' service category. 

Cause

The Standard HDD managed disks under Other are part of 
Microsoft.Compute/restorePointCollections, those do not typically have a 
dedicated meterid (meter_guid) associated with the restore point 
collection resource itself. Restore point collections act as containers 
for VM restore points, which are essentially snapshots of managed disks 
at a specific point in time.

Billing for Azure managed disks, including Standard HDD, is generally 
tracked at the disk resource level, not at the restore point collection 
level. The restore points themselves represent snapshots and may incur 
storage charges, but these are billed under snapshot or backup meters, 
not as separate Standard HDD managed disk meters within the 
restorePointCollections resource.

As a result, there will not be a meterid specifically for 
Standard HDD managed disks under 
Microsoft.Compute/restorePointCollections in the billing data. Instead,
 any costs related to the storage of restore points (snapshots) are 
reflected under the relevant snapshot or backup meter, not as a direct 
meterid for the managed disk itself within the restore point collection.

Resolution

Our platform only maps directly attached disks costs for Compute-Disk at the moment to the 'Disks' service category, but there is no mapping for RestorePointCollections hence why they are falling under 'Other' Service Category.