Finance requires chargebacks for a shared multi-agent platform used by three business units. Today all Foundry usage lands under one subscription with no attribution. What cost-management design should the platform team implement?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Correct answer: A. Shared platforms need attribution. Tag resources and emit per-agent or per-workload IDs in telemetry, set quotas and budgets with alerts, and produce chargeback reports that map tokens and tool calls to business units. Turning off diagnostics (B) blinds you and does not create fair allocation. Blanket Owner rights (C) is a security anti-pattern and not a chargeback design. Personal spreadsheets (D) do not scale or audit. Make cost a first-class monitoring concern alongside quality and reliability.
Full Explanation
Cost monitoring for multi-agent solutions includes usage, quotas, allocations, and chargebacks. Option A implements the required control plane: tags, workload identity in telemetry, budgets/alerts, and mapped reporting. Option B reduces visibility and fails finance requirements. Option C violates least privilege and does not produce systematic attribution. Option D lacks standardization, auditability, and automation. Combine Azure cost management constructs with application-level token metrics so expensive agents and tools are visible to owning teams before overruns occur.