Put your AI under economic control.
See where you stand without sending your telemetry to Metergrade.
Where the check runs
- Azure API ManagementYour gateway, unchanged. Metergrade never enters the request path.
- Log AnalyticsDiagnostics your platform team already collects.
- Metergrade Economic Control CheckA workbook and queries you can read, running in your own workspace.
- Results remain in AzureThe output is a workbook in your tenant. Nothing is transmitted to Metergrade.
- No account
- Nothing to sign up for, and no Metergrade credential to issue.
- No SaaS telemetry upload
- The check has no upload step. There is no path for your telemetry to take.
- No hidden transfer
- The kit is plain text you can read before you run it, and it makes no outbound call to Metergrade.
What you run
An Azure workbook and six KQL queries. Import the workbook, pick your workspace and a time range, and work down the page. Every query is published in full on the setup page and also runs unchanged when pasted straight into Log Analytics — read it before you run it. Hand it to the AI assistant you already use, or follow the steps yourself; every one of them is human-followable.
No installer, no daemon, no agent runtime, and no credential. Read access to the workspace is enough. The first query is a preflight that reports whether the diagnostic data the check needs is present — including the LLM logs category, which is enabled separately from gateway logging and is the one most often missing.
What the check can surface
- UNATTRIBUTED
- Observed AI spend with no accountable workload behind it.
- FAILURE WASTE
- Measured consumption spent on requests that did not succeed, and the throttling that drives retries.
- VALIDATION REQUIRED
- An economic candidate worth testing before anything changes.
Want to keep the baseline and know what to resolve next?
Saving a baseline is a different mode from the check on this page. The check stays inside your Azure environment; a saved baseline requires you to send a supported evidence export to Metergrade, and that transfer is reviewed before it happens. See exactly what is transferred.
Metergrade Free saves the analysis to your organization, tracks what remains unresolved, and tells you the next thing worth resolving. You upload the export yourself, after signing in — that is the difference between this path and that one, and it is the only difference that matters.