Service Retirement workbook
Azure Advisor helps you assess and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications. It's important to be aware of upcoming Azure services and feature retirements to understand their impact on your workloads and plan migration.
Overview of workbook
The Service Retirement workbook provides a single centralized resource level view of service retirements. It helps you assess impact, evaluate options, and plan for migration from retiring services and features. The workbook template is available in Azure Advisor gallery.
Open the Service Retirement workbook
To open the Service Retirement workbook, complete the following actions.
On Advisor | Workbooks | Gallery.
Select All or Public Templates.
Under Azure Advisor, select Service Retirement (Preview).
To directly access the Service Retirement workbook, see Service Retirement workbook.
The workbook shows a list and a map view of service retirements that impact your resources or services. Each service has a planned retirement date, the number of impacted resources, and migration instructions that include the recommended alternative service.
Use filters for subscription. resource group, and location to focus on a specific workload.
Use sorting to find services that are scheduled to retire and have the most impact on your workload.
Use the export feature to share the report with your team to help plan your migration.
Note
The workbook contains information about a subset of services and features in the current retirement lifecycle. The workbook contains information regarding every retirement but it does not provide service level information for every service. The Azure Advisor team continues to add more services to the workbook.
To learn more about the lifecycle status of all Azure services, see Azure Updates.
Contents and capabilities of Service Retirement workbook
The Service Retirement workbook template provides the following views to show the list of your services and resources impacted by retirement of a service.
To learn about how to create a custom view for your workbook, see Edit a workbook.
The view named Impacted Services provides three filters, a map, and two tables to locate resources impacted by scheduled service retirement.
The following drop-down menus filter the Retiring Azure services table.
Subscription
Resource group
Location
The Retiring Azure services table provides data in the column under the following headings.
Service Name is the name of your impacted service.
Retiring Feature
Retirement Date
# Resources
Actions
If you select the check box next to one or more service names in the Retiring Azure services table, the resources associated with the service names are shown in the ... resources affected by the selected service retirement... table.
The ... resources affected by the selected service retirement... table provides data in the column under the following headings.
Subscription
Type
Retiring Feature
Retirement Date
Resource Group
Location
Resource Name is the name of your impacted resource.
Tags
Action
Subscription Id
Share resources and services impacted by retirement
To share with partners or your team the features, resources, and services impacted by retirement of an Azure feature; select the Export to Excel icon or the More icon > Export to Excel.
Note
The exported table is only provided in the .xlsx file format and only includes the current filtered data.
Frequently asked questions (F.A.Q.s)
What is included in the workbook and what isn't included that must be manually checked?
The view named All Services provides details for all of the services that are undergoing Retirement cycle. The column under the Is available under the impacted Services? heading indicates that analysis of impacted resource is available for a specific retirement. A YES value means specific retirement information is available in Impacted Services view, where analysis of impacted resources is available. The resource-level information for other services is currently not available in the workbook.
Is an API available to automate the pull of the workbook data rather than running and exporting the workbook results?
The data in the Retiring Azure services.... table is currently maintained in a JSON format. The retirement JSON data isn't directly consumable.
Direct access isn't available using an API to pull data provided in Retirement workbook. Use Azure Resource Graph query in Service Retirement workbook and access data using supported Azure Resource Graph APIs, PowerShell, and so on.
Is a data source available for direct consumption?
The data is currently maintained in a JSON format. Direct access to the JSON retirement data isn't available.
How do you modify the workbook template to build a personalized view?
To learn how to build a view, see Edit a workbook.
Does the All Services view support resource level impact analysis?
The view named Impacted Services only shows the resource level impact for a subset of services. You must migrate impacted resources that aren't listed in the Impacted Services view. To receive all retirement notifications including reminders, you must configure the alerts at the subscription level.
The view named All Service shows all retirements and indicates if a retirement is available in the Impacted Services view.
Related articles
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