How much of my bandwidth will AzureWatch consume?

Question

It sounds like you will be polling my application once per minute for all sorts of diagnostics data.  Microsoft will charge me for outbound traffic.  How much will that be?

Answer 1

It depends on the size of your deployment and the amount of indicators that AzureWatch is tracking for your application.

Each indicator (metric) value is approximately 1kb in size. Thus, for example if your application consists of two Azure roles with 5 instances each (thus 10 total), and AzureWatch is tracking 5 indicators per instance,, AzureWatch will consume 2.7GB of bandwidth per month.  This translates to approximatey $0.41 in fees from Microsoft.  Undoubtedly there may be some extra overhead so plan for twice as much data to be transferred, just in case