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

IMPORTANT for Agent: This file may be large. Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections, then use read_file with specific line ranges (e.g., L136-L144) to read the sections needed for the user's question This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content. Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch to retrieve full articles.

• Fallback: Use the built-in WebFetch tool if the Microsoft Learn MCP server is not available.

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

Topic	URL
Run Well-Architected assessments in Azure Advisor	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-assessments
Optimize VM and VMSS costs using Azure Advisor	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-cost-recommendations
Calculate and export Azure Advisor cost savings	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-how-to-calculate-total-cost-savings
Improve high-usage VM performance with Azure Advisor	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-how-to-performance-resize-high-usage-vm-recommendations
Use Quick Fix for bulk remediation of Advisor recommendations	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-quick-fix
Apply Azure Advisor cost recommendations across services	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-reference-cost-recommendations
Use Azure Advisor operational excellence recommendations	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-reference-operational-excellence-recommendations
Leverage Azure Advisor performance recommendations	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-reference-performance-recommendations
Apply Azure Advisor reliability recommendations	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-reference-reliability-recommendations
Use Azure Advisor resiliency reviews to improve reliability	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-resiliency-reviews

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