Azure Advisor Basics
Tags: azure, webdev, beginners, certification
Published: 2021-08-21 11:51:38

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> Azure Advisor collects recommendations from all of the services within your subscription and display them in a single page. Example you can see recommendation like Cost, Security, Performance etc. In this short article I will summaries Azure Advisor.

## Introduction 👨‍🏫

![](https://imgur.com/Q3l5JUe.png)

- Azure Adviser is an `Azure service`.
- Helps you to follow best practices to **optimize** Azure **deployments**.
- Deallocate/delete/downgrade resource based on its usages and reduce cost.

Azure Advisor has recommendations and monitoring.

## Azure Adviser on Azure Portal

![](https://imgur.com/M9yDXBE.gif)

![](https://imgur.com/2sFY9nb.png)

- Go to all services
- Select advisor
- Under **settings/configuration** select all of the **resources** that you want get advise. You can also drill down up to resource group level. ![](https://imgur.com/gXgI8Mn.png)

## Overview

![](https://imgur.com/IgCObNA.png)In overview you get advisory/recommendations for below stuffs:

- **Cost**
- **Security** : Also available in Azure Security Center
- **Reliability** : Like enable soft delete to protect your blob storage
- **Operational Excellence**
- **Performance**
- **All recommendations**

## Cost Recommendations

- Optimize VM **costs** by **resizing** or **shutting down** underutilized instances.
- Downgrade or reduce size of DB engines like Maria DB, MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Buy **reserved capacities** for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage Account etc. Because reserved capacity resources are cheaper.
- Delete **unused public IP** addresses.

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