What is Azure Advisor?
Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant. Advisor scans your Azure configuration and provides recommendations to help you optimize deployments, increase security, and save money.
The Advisor dashboard displays personalized recommendations for all your Azure subscriptions. You can apply filters to display recommendations for specific subscriptions and resource types. The recommendations are divided into five categories:
- Cost: Optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending.
- Security: Detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to security breaches.
- Reliability: Ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications.
- Operational excellence: Help you achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment best practices.
- Performance: Improve the speed of your applications.
Advisor provides recommendations for the following resources:
- Application Gateway
- App Services
- Availability sets
- Azure Cache
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Database for MySQL
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Database for MariaDB
- Azure ExpressRoute
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure public IP addresses
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- SQL Servers
- Storage accounts
- Traffic Manager profiles
- Virtual machines
Advisor also includes recommendations from Microsoft Defender for Cloud, which might include recommendations for other resource types.