diff --git a/articles/aks/cost-analysis.md b/articles/aks/cost-analysis.md index ec95d0541..6a29c15d1 100644 --- a/articles/aks/cost-analysis.md +++ b/articles/aks/cost-analysis.md @@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ az aks update --resource-group --name --enable-c > [!WARNING] > The AKS cost analysis add-on Memory usage is dependent on the number of containers deployed. You can roughly approximate Memory consumption using *200 MB + 0.5 MB per container*. The current Memory limit is set to *4 GB*, which supports approximately *7000 containers per cluster*. These estimates are subject to change. +> [!NOTE] +> Enabling the cost analysis also creates a [managed identity](/entra/identity/managed-identities-azure-resources/overview) named `cost-analysis-identity` with read access to the cluster's node resource group, and assigns it to the node pools in the cluster. +> This is used to collect the ARM identifiers of cluster assets for reporting. +> +> Since there is already a managed identity for the node pool itself, any commands on the node that use managed identities will need to [specify the identity to use](/entra/identity/managed-identities-azure-resources/managed-identities-faq#what-identity-will-imds-default-to-if-i-dont-specify-the-identity-in-the-request) rather than relying on the default. +> +> For example, `az login --identity --resource-id `. + + ## Disable cost analysis on your AKS cluster Disable cost analysis using the [`az aks update`][az-aks-update] command with the `--disable-cost-analysis` flag.