How to set up different azure sendgrid accounts for different environments? - email

Question

We are using azure for publishing our application and we are having three different web apps for dev, stage and prod.
By referring the below link
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sendgrid-dotnet-how-to-send-email/
We configured the sendgrid account in azure and we are able to send email without any issue in all three environments dev, stag and prod.
Note: We are using same sendgrid account for dev, stage and prod.
Issue:
Now, for tracking and billing purpose we decided to use different sendgrid accounts for dev, stag and prod. i.e.,
Azure SendGrid account 1 - dev
Azure SendGrid account 2 - stag
Azure SendGrid account 3 - prod
But we don't know how to accomplish via azure portal and when we tried it's not allowing.
Please, suggest some steps or links to accomplish this so that we can plan out for release. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

SendGrid supports subusers, so you could have your parent account and two or three subusers depending on if you wanted to send via the parent account as well. You can read about subusers on the SendGrid docs. Let me know if you have any questions.

Answer 2

About halfway down in the article you provided a link for you'll see:
and
You could add more app settings such as:
SENDGRID_DEV_APIKEY, SENDGRID_STAGE_APIKEY, SENDGRID_PROD_APIKEY
Then in your code check what environment the code is running and use the appropriate app setting/api key.
var apiKey = "";
//GetCurrentEnvironment() is a method you would write that contains logic to determine what "environment" is being used.
if (GetCurrentEnvironment() == "dev") {
apiKey = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SENDGRID_DEV_APIKEY");
} else if (GetCurrentEnvironment() == "stage") {
apiKey = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SENDGRID_STAGE_APIKEY");
} else if (GetCurrentEnvironment() == "prod") {
apiKey = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SENDGRID_PROD_APIKEY");
}
var transportWeb = new Web(apiKey);