Azure advisor

Skill MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/skills/azure-advisor

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).From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-advisor

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SKILL.md

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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

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 recommendations by resource tags	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-tag-filtering
Use Azure Advisor workbook templates for insights	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-workbooks

Integrations & Coding Patterns

Topic	URL
Integrate Azure Advisor MCP tools with AI clients	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-mcp-tools

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most containers cloud skills give

Counted across 607 of the 705 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

Run as non-root userin 34 of 607, across 27 files
Use multi-stage buildsin 29 of 607
Set resource requests and limitsin 24 of 607, across 20 files
Configure liveness and readiness probesin 18 of 607, across 14 files
Use named volumes for persistent datain 14 of 607, across 9 files
Pin base image versionsin 14 of 607
Set up environment variablesin 14 of 607, across 10 files
Pin provider versionsin 14 of 607
Apply least privilege RBAC permissionsin 10 of 607, across 7 files
Create a dockerignore filein 10 of 607
Use remote state with lockingin 9 of 607
Pin base images by digestin 9 of 607, across 8 files

Said here and by no other author read

Use the Category Index to locate relevant sections
Use read_file on linked reference files
Fetch documentation using network access

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once.