Get the most out of Azure
Quickly and easily optimize your Azure deployments. Azure Advisor analyzes your configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized, actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for high availability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost.
Best practices to optimize your Azure workloads
Simple, step-by-step guidance and quick links
One place to review and act on recommendations from across Azure
Alerts to notify you about new recommendations
Optimize your deployments with personalized recommendations
Advisor provides relevant best practices to help you improve availability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs. Configure Advisor to target specific subscriptions and resource groups, to focus on critical optimizations. Access Advisor through the Azure portal, the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), or the Advisor API. Or configure alerts to notify you automatically about new recommendations.
Learn how to get started
Quickly and easily take action
Advisor is designed to help you save you time on cloud optimization. The recommendation service includes suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss. Recommendations are prioritized according to our best estimate of significance to your environment, and you can share them with your team or stakeholders.
See and act on your Azure Advisor recommendations now
Find all your optimization recommendations in one place
Azure offers many services that provide recommendations, including Azure Security Center, Azure Cost Management, Azure SQL DB Advisor, Azure App Service, and others. Advisor pulls in recommendations from all these services so you can more easily review them and take action from a single place.
Explore cost optimization and other recommendation categoriesAbout Azure security
- Microsoft invests over USD 1 billion annually on cyber security research and development.
- We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are completely focused on securing your data and privacy.
- Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
Azure Advisor is free
Azure Advisor is available at no additional cost. However, note that some recommendations can incur costs upon remediation. For example, enabling virtual machine backup can incur charges for the backups. Advisor aims to help you find cloud cost efficiencies while following Azure best practices.
Get started in three steps
Documentation and learning resources
Documentation
Learn how to get started with Advisor. Explore the four cloud advisor optimization categories: high availability, security, performance, and cost. Find out how to use Advisor programmatically through the Advisor REST API, command line (CLI), and PowerShell.
Videos
Watch our demo from Microsoft Ignite, covering how to optimize your Azure resources using Advisor.
Questions and feedback
Help us build the best cloud optimization experience for you.
Advisor updates, blogs, and announcements
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New Azure Advisor recommendation category: operational excellence
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Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
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Azure Advisor cost recommendation enhancements
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Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview
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August 13, 2019
Your single source for Azure best practices
Saket Gupta, Senior Program Manager, Azure
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July 10, 2019
Two ways to share Azure Advisor recommendations
Kaitlyn Corazao, Program Manager, Azure Advisor
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Enhanced experience for Azure Advisor security recommendations
Frequently asked questions about Azure Advisor
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Advisor is available in all Azure regions.
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As a free service, Azure Advisor has no SLA.
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Sign in to the Azure portal and select Advisor from the navigation menu or from the All services menu. You can also access the service through the Advisor REST API, command line (CLI), and PowerShell.
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You can access Azure Advisor recommendations as an owner, contributor, or reader of a subscription.
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You can configure Advisor to display recommendations for specific subscriptions or resource groups and tune some recommendations. Learn more.
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Advisor for Azure Government offers slightly different recommendations. Learn more.