/azure-advisor

name: azure-advisor
description: Expert knowledge for Azure Advisor development including best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when tuning Advisor alerts, digests, and states, bulk-fixing savings, or querying recommendations via Resource Graph, and other Azure Advisor related development tasks. Not for Cost Management (use azure-cost-management), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Policy (use azure-policy), Azure Security (use azure-security).
compatibility: Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.
metadata:
  generated_at: "2026-08-16"
  generator: "docs2skills/1.0.0"

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**: Use the **Category Index** below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., `L35-L120`), use `read_file` with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., `[security.md](security.md)`), use `read_file` on the linked reference file

> **IMPORTANT for Agent**: If `metadata.generated_at` is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If `mcp_microsoftdocs` tools are not available, suggest the user install it: [Installation Guide](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp/blob/main/README.md)

This skill requires **network access** to fetch documentation content:

• **Preferred**: Use `mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill`. Returns Markdown.
• **Fallback**: Use `fetch_webpage` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown`. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description | |----------|-------|-------------| | Best Practices | L34-L43 | Using Azure Advisor to assess architectures, optimize VM costs/performance, estimate savings, bulk-fix recommendations, and apply reliability best practices. | | Decision Making | L44-L52 | Using Advisor workbooks and critical risk views to assess reliability, plan migrations, and estimate cost impact of Azure Advisor recommendations across key resources | | Limits & Quotas | L53-L57 | Advisor feature availability, limits, and differences when running in Azure sovereign clouds (e.g., Azure Government, China), including which recommendations are supported. | | Security | L58-L62 | Managing Azure Advisor permissions, roles, and RBAC settings so users and apps have appropriate access to Advisor recommendations and data | | Configuration | L63-L73 | Configuring Azure Advisor alerts, digests, and recommendation states via portal, ARM/Bicep, tags, and workbooks to control how and when recommendations are delivered and viewed. | | Integrations & Coding Patterns | L74-L77 | Querying Azure Advisor data via Resource Graph, using sample Kusto queries, and integrating Advisor MCP tools with AI/LLM clients for automated insights |

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 reliability recommendations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-reference-reliability-recommendations |

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 | | Use Advisor Service Retirement workbook for migration planning | 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 | |-------|-----| | Configure Azure Advisor roles and access control | 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 Azure Advisor recommendation state management | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-azure-state-management | | Configure periodic Azure Advisor recommendation digests | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-recommendations-digest | | Filter Azure Advisor recomm