azure-advisor
Expert knowledge for Azure Advisor development including best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when building, debugging, or optimizing Azure Advisor applications. Not for Azure Cost Management (use azure-cost-management), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Policy (use azure-policy), Azure Service Health (use azure-service-health).
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Azure Advisor Skill
This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Advisor. Covers best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
How to Use This Skill
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Category Index
| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Best Practices | L34-L47 | Using Advisor to assess architectures and apply cost, performance, operational excellence, and reliability best practices, including bulk fixes, savings export, and resiliency reviews. |
| Decision Making | L48-L56 | Using Advisor insights to prioritize critical risks, estimate cost impact, plan for service retirements/migrations, and use workbooks to analyze cost and reliability decisions |
| Limits & Quotas | L57-L61 | Advisor feature availability, limits, and differences when running in Azure sovereign clouds (e.g., Azure Government, China), including which recommendations are supported. |
| Security | L62-L67 | Managing who can view or dismiss Azure Advisor recommendations using Azure RBAC, including configuring roles, permissions, and access control for Advisor. |
| Configuration | L68-L77 | Setting up and customizing Azure Advisor: creating alerts (portal, ARM, Bicep), email digests, tag-based filtering, and using workbooks for monitoring and insights. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L78-L82 | Querying Azure Advisor recommendations via Azure Resource Graph, using Kusto queries and sample patterns to filter, analyze, and report on Advisor data at scale |
Best Practices
Decision Making
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Use Azure Advisor Critical Risks for key resources | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-critical-risks |
| Assess cost impact of Azure Advisor recommendations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-how-to-evaluate-cost-implications-of-recommendations |
| Analyze and optimize Azure costs with the Advisor workbook | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-workbook-cost-optimization |
| Evaluate application reliability using the Advisor workbook | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-workbook-reliability |
| Plan migrations for Azure service retirements with Advisor | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-workbook-service-retirement |
Limits & Quotas
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Understand Azure Advisor feature limits in sovereign clouds | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-sovereign-clouds |
Security
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Control who can dismiss Azure Advisor recommendations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-dismiss-postpone |
| Configure Azure Advisor access roles and permissions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/permissions |
Configuration
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Create Azure Advisor alerts with ARM templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-alerts-arm |
| Define Azure Advisor alert rules using Bicep | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-alerts-bicep |
| Configure Azure Advisor alerts in the Azure portal | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-alerts-portal |
| Configure periodic Azure Advisor recommendation digests | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-recommendations-digest |
| Filter Azure Advisor recommendations by resource tags | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-tag-filtering |
| Use Azure Advisor workbook templates for insights | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-workbooks |
Integrations & Coding Patterns
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Query Azure Advisor data with Azure Resource Graph | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-azure-resource-graph |
| Use Resource Graph sample queries for Azure Advisor data | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/resource-graph-samples |