Azure Advisor
An Azure personalized recommendation engine that helps users follow best practices to optimize Azure deployments.
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Advisor alert not providing clear information
Hello, each day we are receiving an alert from Azure Advisor. The alert rule we created contains the following condition: From the alert, we receive an email (action group) with the following information (extract). The Channel is…
asked 2023-08-23T06:41:39.37+00:00
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Quattrocchi, Calogero
170
Reputation points
accepted 2023-08-23T10:08:35.2266667+00:00
Quattrocchi, Calogero
170
Reputation points
3 answers
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How to see the permission of a user A and copy the same permission for user B in Azure AD
I have a user A in Azure AD portal. I have been asked to assign same permission to B and C as user A has. How can I see the role and resource permission of user A and grant to B and C. We are using PIM groups so user A may have ID level permission or…
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1 answer
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Azure Advisor Recommendations - List API: Question regarding properties.shortDescription
The Azure Advisor Recommendations - List API call will return a properties object with the rest of the data, in specific I'm interested in the results possible in the properties.shortDescription field. I've been asked to fetch all possible values for…
asked 2023-07-04T19:36:50.4466667+00:00
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Ivan Zeljkovic
20
Reputation points
edited the question 2023-08-08T13:19:31.46+00:00
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MuthuKumaranMurugaachari-MSFT
22,151
Reputation points
1 answer
Seeking clarification on Azure Advisor score
Hello, Do you have any insights how Azure Advisor score is changed ? Two days back it was 90+ and now it's down to 80. Can I see the raw data based on which this score was changed? Applicate your Response. Thank you!!
asked 2023-07-05T10:25:23.82+00:00
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anil kumar
1,641
Reputation points
answered 2023-08-07T18:47:33.41+00:00
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Tech-Hyd-1989
5,746
Reputation points
1 answer
How to calculate exact cost for storage account type (Cold and Archive)
Hello, I am working on cost savings and under Advisor Recommendations (subscription level). It suggested to consider using reserved instances for cold and archive storage. However, I'm having trouble identifying the current cost charged for specific…
asked 2023-07-18T07:17:14.2966667+00:00
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Awangku Faiz
0
Reputation points
commented 2023-08-02T14:46:36.9733333+00:00
Sumarigo-MSFT
43,801
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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What Rule name do I need to setup Advisor Alerts?
Hello, I'm looking to add alerts to my Azure project but I don't know the language to write the code? From, Anthony Vermeulen
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2 answers
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Unclear of azure advisor recommendation for cosmos db
I am getting below recommendation for cosmos db optimization. Configure manual throughput instead of autoscale on your Azure Cosmos DB database or container. Database name - xxxx Container name - xxx Estimated percent savings - 32.5% Current autoscale…
asked 2023-07-05T11:37:22.4666667+00:00
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Yang Chow Mun
101
Reputation points
answered 2023-07-06T05:25:20.5166667+00:00
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ShaktiSingh-MSFT
13,516
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers
Multiple Azure Advisor recommendation e-mail alerts
I'm getting multiple Azure Advisor recommendation e-mail alerts, even though the recommendation was completed and I did deselect all subscriptions in the Advisor I still get email alerts every 10 minutes. How can I disable this? There are no alert or…
asked 2023-07-04T17:30:26.8766667+00:00
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Gustavo Campos
0
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commented 2023-07-04T18:11:38.72+00:00
Gustavo Campos
0
Reputation points
1 answer
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90 days look back period in Azure Advisor
Hello, Following blog post talks about update in Azure Advisor to allow changing look back period to 7, 30, 60 or 90 days. I have checked in my subscription but I can see only 7, 30 and 60 days in the look back period drop down list. 90 days is just not…
asked 2023-06-28T05:40:07.61+00:00
anil kumar
1,641
Reputation points
commented 2023-07-04T10:38:23.9833333+00:00
anil kumar
1,641
Reputation points
2 answers
how to fix an error while data was synchronizing between on-premises active directory and Azura Directory
Trying to figure out how to fix the below sync error: Azure AD Connect Sync errors detected You’re receiving this email because we have detected 1 critical alert on your Azure AD Connect service for errors that occurred while data was while…
asked 2023-06-02T16:18:40.9466667+00:00
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Terri-Lynn Levesque
0
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answered 2023-06-28T09:09:04.0266667+00:00
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Givary-MSFT
28,321
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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Requesting clarification on Azure Advisor
Hello, Could you please help me in finding answers for following questions ? Does Azure advisor consider all workload to be running 247 for generating recommendations? If there is a workload on Azure VMs which is heavily used 125 (12 hours each…
asked 2023-06-19T14:22:35.0266667+00:00
anil kumar
1,641
Reputation points
commented 2023-06-20T06:46:38.44+00:00
anil kumar
1,641
Reputation points
2 answers
How to calculate the network percentage of virtual machines with its utilization metrics ? there will be different sizes of vms with different capacities so any formula to calculate it ?
So i am trying to calculate the network % of virtual machines as it is shown in advisory but could not able to crack the formula for it. Virtual machine are of different sizes and contains different metrics . So we need proper formula to get the network…
asked 2023-06-07T09:45:12.7133333+00:00
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Shiva Karthik Rallabandi
5
Reputation points
commented 2023-06-12T02:29:30.47+00:00
Shiva Karthik Rallabandi
5
Reputation points
0 answers
For each resource the platform should store the previous and new value (when not a secret)
Hi Team, How we can store the previous and new value which is not a secret on the Platform. Also Please share the Suggestion which configuration should be enable on the resources to store the values over the platform. Also share the Platform names where…
asked 2023-05-24T07:20:33.27+00:00
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Prateek Rana
60
Reputation points
edited the question 2023-05-30T07:37:53.7433333+00:00
Sumarigo-MSFT
43,801
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers
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Alerting is based on vendor or generic best practices security recommendations for the relevant service or product
Alerting should be based on vendor or generic what is the best practices security recommendations for the azure services and product.
asked 2023-05-17T10:20:11.12+00:00
Prateek Rana
60
Reputation points
edited a comment 2023-05-29T08:12:12.4266667+00:00
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AnuragSingh-MSFT
20,106
Reputation points
0 answers
Azure Advisor API - receiving 404
Hi, I'm trying to create an Azure Advisor Recommendation digest using the API by following this process: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/configurations/create-in-subscription?tabs=HTTP I'm using Powershell and Azure modules to…
asked 2023-05-23T16:02:08.1366667+00:00
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Dan
0
Reputation points
commented 2023-05-24T10:04:06.4466667+00:00
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SwathiDhanwada-MSFT
17,726
Reputation points
1 answer
Action required emails recipients and how to add more people
From where it is configured to receive default Microsoft AZURE notification emails, such as action required, retirement of services etc., that Microsoft sends as the updates on Azure Subscriptions and the underlying resources? Who are the default…
asked 2023-04-18T05:12:35.9533333+00:00
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AzureUser-9588
141
Reputation points
edited the question 2023-04-27T10:04:47.6133333+00:00
Givary-MSFT
28,321
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers
We're unable to get Advisor score for your subscriptions. Try again in a few minutes. Refresh Advisor score
We're unable to get Advisor score for your subscriptions. Try again in a few minutes. Refresh Advisor score How do you solve this error?
asked 2023-02-07T09:46:51.16+00:00
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John Ngugi Waithira
5
Reputation points
commented 2023-03-30T20:29:10.5133333+00:00
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Siddiq Husain
0
Reputation points
1 answer
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Is there way to make custom Azure Advisor rule for recommendation?
We manage lots of customers as managed service provider. Now, Across all customers we provide some common operational policies and automation like patching, tagging, backup, anti-virus and cost related stuffs. Now, to unify these I need these to be…
asked 2023-02-23T12:29:37.34+00:00
Rajesh Swarnkar
851
Reputation points
commented 2023-03-09T16:49:43.0733333+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT
38,081
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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should Advisor recommendations include unattached disks created by active ASR replication activity?
I see recommendations that include disks that are unattached to a VM, but they are "ASRReplica" disks used by ASR. If these are actively used by ASR, why do they show up in the Advisor Cost recommendations? The disks in questions show up with…
asked 2023-02-16T16:11:17.2966667+00:00
Matthew Blessing
46
Reputation points
accepted 2023-03-01T15:48:48.92+00:00
Matthew Blessing
46
Reputation points
1 answer
Where is the best place to get help with Azure capacity planning?
I want to extrapolate my current usage to get some high level budget figures in advance of a big expansion project.
asked 2023-02-20T10:25:50.2866667+00:00
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Paul Costelloe
0
Reputation points
commented 2023-02-28T18:53:19.4366667+00:00
Prrudram-MSFT
22,381
Reputation points