What Azure Advisor recommends across its categories and how it fits alongside Service Health and Azure Monitor.
From Ultra Transcenders AZ-900 by Tony Rough (publishing soon)
Once resources are deployed, Azure can tell you how to run them better. Azure Advisor is the service that turns best practice into personalised recommendations.
Azure Advisor is a digital cloud assistant that helps you follow best practices to optimise Azure deployments. It analyses your resource configuration and usage telemetry, then recommends solutions to improve cost effectiveness, performance, reliability and security.
The Advisor dashboard shows recommendations for all your subscriptions, divided into five categories:
| Category | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Reliability | Ensure and improve the continuity of business-critical applications |
| Security | Detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to security breaches |
| Performance | Improve the speed of applications |
| Cost | Optimise and reduce overall Azure spending |
| Operational excellence | Process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability and deployment best practices |
Key facts:
Common trap: Azure Advisor reports Azure outages and planned maintenance - that is Azure Service Health. Advisor gives best-practice recommendations about how your own resources are configured and used, across reliability, security, performance, cost and operational excellence.
This note is one section of Ultra Transcenders AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, an independent study guide that explains every topic the exam covers by technology, with comparison tables, diagrams and the common traps, plus a glossary linked to Microsoft Learn.
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