Finance requires showback for multi-agent usage across business units, with quotas and alerts before overage. What monitoring and management approach should you design?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
B covers cost monitoring: usage, quotas, allocations, and chargebacks. Multi-agent platforms burn tokens unevenly across teams; without tags, quotas, and alerts, finance only sees surprise invoices. A shared keys kill attribution. C annual invoice review is too late. D opaque fees block optimization incentives. Instrument per-agent and per-team usage in Foundry/Azure cost tooling and alert proactively.
Full Explanation
Correct Answer — B
Cost monitoring and management for multi-agent solutions includes usage tracking, quotas, allocations, and chargebacks/showback with proactive alerting before overages.
Why A is wrong: Shared untagged keys prevent fair attribution.
Why C is wrong: Annual-only review cannot prevent mid-period overruns.
Why D is wrong: Opaque fees remove cost signals needed for optimization.
Exam tip: Quotas + allocation tags turn multi-agent cost into a managed system.