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General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters
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.
November 2020
New recommendations from Azure Advisor are now available
Four new best practice recommendations will help you improve the reliability and performance of your Azure resources
September 2020
New performance recommendations now available in Azure Advisor
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you achieve better performance.
New recommendations for operational excellence are now available in Azure Advisor
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you improve your cloud operations.
Azure Advisor Score is now 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
August 2020
Cost optimization enhancements now available in Azure Advisor
New Advisor cost optimization enhancements help you optimize and reduce your overall Azure spend.
Azure Advisor Quick Fix is now available
Remediate Advisor recommendations at scale more quickly and easily using Advisors new Quick Fix feature.
May 2020
Azure Advisor recommendation digests now available
Receive a periodic, customizable notification of your available Advisor recommendations to help you stay current on Azure best practices.
April 2020
Azure Advisor data in Azure Resource Graph is now available
This release enables many at-scale scenarios for consuming the Azure Advisor best practice recommendations, including querying Advisor recommendations for all your subscriptions and building your own custom views of Advisor recommendation data.
November 2019
New Azure Advisor recommendation category: operational excellence
Azure Advisor is launching a new category of recommendations called operational excellence. This new category will help you follow best practices for process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment.
Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance to accelerate your cloud adoption journey. It’s a collection of tools, guidance, and best practices to help shape your cloud strategy and achieve the desired business goals.
October 2019
Azure Advisor cost recommendation enhancements
Advisor has made enhancements to its popular cost recommendation to resize or shut down under-utilized virtual machines. Although certain scenarios result in low utilization by design, you can often save money by managing the size and number of your virtual machines.
September 2019
Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview
Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.
June 2019
Enhanced experience for Azure Advisor security recommendations
Manage your Security Center recommendations through Advisor UI, API, CLI, or PowerShell. Remediate recommendations quickly with bulk actions. Follow more than 20 new best practice recommendations for availability, performance, and cost.
October 2018
September 2018
Azure Advisor: New recommendations and tighter integrations
Additional recommendations are now available in Azure Advisor, your personalized guide to Azure best practices. Advisor is a free service that helps you optimize your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security, and improve reliability.
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