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March 2024

4 Mar

Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Initiate a self-serve experience of Assessments and manage their recommendations on Azure Advisor

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services
  • Management

January 2024

22 Jan

Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace

NOW AVAILABLE

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources.   We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their  Azure  resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure.  We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way. 

  • Log Analytics
  • Azure Advisor
  • Compliance
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

November 2023

6 Nov

General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures without causing disruptions to your application. To learn more, visit Reliability recommendations - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
  • Features

August 2023

24 Aug

General Availability: Improve VM resiliency with Azure Advisor's Availability Zone recommendation.

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Avoid downtime and business interruptions by migrating your virtual machines to availability zones

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

July 2023

31 Jul

Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

June 2023

13 Jun

Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Review upcoming service and feature retirements and their impact on your workloads using the new Service Retirement workbook template which is available in Azure Advisor.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

May 2023

16 May

Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Evaluate the reliability posture of your workloads, assess risks and plan improvements using the new Reliability workbook template which is now available in Azure Advisor.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
10 May

Azure Advisor data in Azure Resource Graph is now available in Azure China and US Government clouds

NOW AVAILABLE

Advisor recommendations are now available in Azure Resource Graph in Azure China and US Government clouds.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

April 2023

26 Apr

Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

November 2022

9 Nov

General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

NOW AVAILABLE

You can use new cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets for optimisation.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

October 2022

12 Oct

Generally available: Azure Advisor score across all Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Advisor score enables you to quickly prioritize the Azure Advisor recommendations that will have the greatest impact on your workload health.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Management

July 2022

19 Jul

Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor

NOW AVAILABLE

Tag filtering is now available in Azure Advisor

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

October 2021

25 Oct

General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Management
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

November 2020

11 Nov

New recommendations from Azure Advisor are now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Four new best practice recommendations will help you improve the reliability and performance of your Azure resources

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services

September 2020

30 Sep

New performance recommendations now available in Azure Advisor

NOW AVAILABLE

Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you achieve better performance.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services
30 Sep

New recommendations for operational excellence are now available in Azure Advisor

NOW AVAILABLE

Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you improve your cloud operations.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services
22 Sep

Azure Advisor Score is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Measure, track, and improve your Azure optimization posture with prioritized Advisor best practice recommendations so you can get the most out of your Azure investments

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services

August 2020

19 Aug

Cost optimisation enhancements now available in Azure Advisor

NOW AVAILABLE

New Advisor cost optimisation enhancements help you optimise and reduce your overall Azure spend.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services
5 Aug

Azure Advisor Quick Fix is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Remediate Advisor recommendations at scale more quickly and easily using Advisors new Quick Fix feature.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services

May 2020

27 May

Azure Advisor recommendation digests now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Receive a periodic, customisable notification of your available Advisor recommendations to help you stay current on Azure best practices.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services

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