Reserved for the SKILL.SCH open source community — a good project for someone learning real Azure billing patterns.\n\nAPI Management Developer/Basic/Standard/Premium tiers all bill a fixed hourly rate for the gateway instance itself, regardless of API call volume (only the Consumption tier is pay-per-call). An idle APIM instance with a live gateway but near-zero Requests metric traffic is real, recurring waste — similar pattern to idle_signalr.py or idle_managed_grafana.py.\n\nNote: APIM Developer-tier provisioning takes ~30-45 minutes, so budget real time for the verification step in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Reserved for the SKILL.SCH open source community — a good project for someone learning real Azure billing patterns.\n\nAPI Management Developer/Basic/Standard/Premium tiers all bill a fixed hourly rate for the gateway instance itself, regardless of API call volume (only the Consumption tier is pay-per-call). An idle APIM instance with a live gateway but near-zero
Requestsmetric traffic is real, recurring waste — similar pattern toidle_signalr.pyoridle_managed_grafana.py.\n\nNote: APIM Developer-tier provisioning takes ~30-45 minutes, so budget real time for the verification step in CONTRIBUTING.md.