You have an Azure subscription. You have 100 Azure virtual machines. You need to quickly identify underutilized virtual machines that can have their service tier changed to a less expensive offering. Which blade should you use?

Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that provides recommendations to optimize Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry to provide actionable recommendations across several categories, including Cost. The Cost recommendations specifically identify underutilized resources, such as virtual machines with low CPU or network usage, and suggest actions like resizing or shutting them down. This allows for the quick identification of cost-saving opportunities across all 100 VMs, directly addressing the user's requirement.

A. Monitor: Azure Monitor is for collecting and analyzing performance data. It does not provide proactive, consolidated cost-saving recommendations based on resource utilization patterns.
C. Metrics: Metrics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is used for visualizing performance data. It requires manual analysis and does not generate automated recommendations for cost optimization.
D. Customer insights: This service is related to application performance monitoring (Application Insights) or customer data platforms, not for optimizing the cost of Azure infrastructure like virtual machines. ---

1. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Introduction to Azure Advisor.

Section: "What is Azure Advisor?"

Quote/Content: "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 (formerly called high availability)

and security of your Azure resources."

2. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Optimize costs with Azure Advisor.

Section: "Optimize virtual machine (VM) or virtual machine scale set (VMSS) spend by resizing or shutting down underutilized instances"

Quote/Content: "Advisor identifies virtual machines that have low utilization based on their CPU and network usage. It then provides recommendations to either shut down or resize the virtual machines."

3. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Azure Monitor overview.

Section: "What is Azure Monitor?"

Quote/Content: "Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting

analyzing

and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments." This highlights its role in data collection and analysis

not proactive recommendations like Advisor.