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Prompts are how you can interact with Microsoft Copilot in Azure to get help working with your Azure environment. This article shows a list of skills and example prompts that you can try out to see how Copilot in Azure can help with different scenarios and Azure services.
Tip
The tasks and sample prompts listed here show a few of the areas where Microsoft Copilot in Azure can be especially helpful. However, this isn't a complete list of all the things you can do. We encourage you to experiment with your own prompts and see how Microsoft Copilot in Azure can help you manage your Azure resources and environment.
To learn more about the ways that you can use Copilot for Azure, see Capabilities of Microsoft Copilot for Azure. For tips on creating your own prompts, see Write effective prompts for Microsoft Copilot in Azure.
Prompt library
To get started with Copilot for Azure, try a few prompts from this list. Feel free to experiment and make changes, or create your own prompts based on your current tasks and interests.
| Scenario | Outcome | Example prompt to try |
|---|---|---|
| Azure portal | Changes Azure portal theme. | "Change my theme to dark mode." |
| Learn | Explains documentation and purposes of Azure services. | "What are the benefits and applications of Azure API Management?" |
| Learn | Explains how to implement Azure services. | "How can I process real-time events in my application with Azure?" |
| Learn | Outlines steps for performing tasks. | "Outline steps to secure Azure Blob Storage with private endpoints and Azure Private Link." |
| Learn | Generates code from documentation. | "How to upload a storage container with JavaScript." |
| Learn | Creates guides from multiple documentation sources. | "I want to use Azure functions to build an OpenAI application." |
| Azure Resource Graph | Lists the number of critical alerts. | "How many critical alerts do I have?" |
| Azure Resource Graph | Retrieves live resource information. | "Which VMs are running right now? Please restart them." |
| Azure Resource Graph | Identifies states of resources. | "Which resources are non-compliant?" |
| Azure Resource Graph | Lists resources created or modified in the last 24 hours. | "List resources that have been created or modified in the last 24 hours." |
| Cost Management | Compares the current month's cost to the previous month's cost. | "How does our cost this month compare to last month's." |
| Cost Management | Forecasts cost for the next 3 months. | "Forecast my cost for the next 3 months." |
| Cost Management | Shows Azure credits balance. | "What's our Azure credits balance?" |
| Azure CLI | Generates a cheatsheet for managing resources with CLI. | "Generate a cheatsheet for managing VMs with CLI." |
| Azure CLI | Lists all resources of a certain kind using Azure CLI. | "How do I list all my VMs using Azure CLI?" |
| Azure CLI | Creates resources with CLI. | "Create a virtual network with two subnets using the address space of 10.0.0.0/16 using az cli." |
| Azure CLI | Deploys resources with CLI. | "I want to use Azure CLI to deploy and manage AKS using a private service endpoint." |
| PowerShell | Create resources with PowerShell. | "How can I create a new resource group using PowerShell?" |
| PowerShell | Deploy multiple resources with PowerShell. | "Help me write a PS script where after creating VM, deploy an AKS cluster on it." |
| PowerShell | Manage resources with PowerShell. | "How to back up an Azure SQL single database to an Azure storage container using Azure PowerShell?" |
| Interactive deployments | Provides a detailed guide on deploying an AKS cluster on Azure. | "Provide me with a detailed guide on deploying an AKS cluster on Azure." |
| Interactive deployments | Explains steps to create a Linux VM on Azure and SSH into it. | "What are the steps to create a Linux VM on Azure and how do I SSH into it?" |
| Azure Monitor | Detects anomalies in a specific resource. | "Is there any anomaly in my AKS resource?" |
| Azure Monitor | Performs root cause analysis. | "Why is this resource not working properly?" |
| Azure Monitor | Provides charts on platform metrics for a specific resource. | "Give me a chart of OS disk latency statistics for the last week." |
| Azure Monitor | Queries logs using natural language | "Show me container logs that include word 'error' for the last day for namespace 'xyz'." |
| Azure Monitor | Runs an investigation on a specific resource. | "Had an alert in my HCI at 8 am this morning, run an anomaly investigation for me." |
| Azure Monitor | Lists alerts using natural language. | "Show me all alerts triggered during the last 24 hours." |
| Azure Monitor | Provides a summary of alerts, including the number of critical alerts. | "Tell me more about these alerts. How many critical alerts are there?" |
| Azure Networking | Network planning and troubleshooting connectivity issues | "Why can't my VM connect to the internet?" |
| Azure App Service | Analyzes performance issues with an app. | "Troubleshoot performance issues with my app." |
| Azure App Service | Diagnoses high CPU usage issues. | "It seems like there's a high CPU issue with my web app." |
| Azure App Service | Enables auto-heal for web apps. | "Enable auto heal on my web app." |
| Azure App Service | Explains an error related to deployed web apps. | "What does this error mean for my Azure web app?" |
| Azure App Service | Provides assistance with slow-running app code. | "Why is my web app slow?" |
| Azure App Service | Summarizes diagnostics. | "Give me a summary of these diagnostics." |
| Azure App Service | Takes a memory dump of the app. | "Take a memory dump." |
| Azure App Service | Tracks uptime and downtime of a web app. | "Can I track uptime and downtime of my web app over a specific time period?" |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Adds the user's IP address to the allowlist. | "Add my IP address to the allowlist of my AKS cluster's network policies." |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Configures AKS backups. | "Configure AKS backup." |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Scales the number of replicas of a deployment. | "Scale the number of replicas of my deployment my-deployment to 5." |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Updates the authorized IP ranges. | "Update my AKS cluster's authorized IP ranges." |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Shows existing backups. | "I want to view the backups on my AKS cluster." |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Manages the backup extension. | "Manage backup extension on my AKS cluster." |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Upgrades the AKS pricing tier. | "Upgrade AKS cluster pricing tier to Standard." |
| Azure SQL Databases | Use natural language to manage Azure SQL Databases | "I want to automate Azure SQL Database scaling based on performance metrics using Azure Functions." |
| Azure Storage | Checks if a storage account follows security best practices. | "Does this storage account follow security best practices?" |
| Azure Storage | Provides recommendations to make a storage account more secure. | "How can I make this storage account more secure?" |
| Azure Storage | Checks for vulnerabilities in a storage account. | "Is this storage account vulnerable?" |
| Azure Storage | Prevents deletion of a storage account. | "How can I prevent this storage account from being deleted?" |
| Azure Storage | Protects data from loss or theft. | "How do I protect this storage account's data from data loss or theft?" |
| Azure Virtual Machines | Creates a cost-efficient virtual machine configuration. | "Help me create a cost-efficient virtual machine." |
| Execute commands | Restarts VMs with the tag 'env' | "Restart my VMs that have the tag 'env'" |
| Service health | Checks for any outage impacting the user. | "Is there any outage impacting me?" |
Next steps
- Learn more about things you can do with Copilot in Azure.
- Get tips on writing effective prompts for Copilot in Azure.
- Review our Responsible AI FAQ for Microsoft Copilot in Azure.