You have an Azure subscription. You have 100 Azure virtual machines. You need to quickly identify underutilized virtual machines that can have their…

Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations to optimize Azure resources. One of

its key recommendation categories is "Cost," which includes identifying underutilized virtual

machines and suggesting changes like resizing or shutting them down to save money. This

directly addresses the need to quickly identify VMs for less expensive offerings.

A. Monitor: Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry data, including VM performance,

but it doesn't proactively provide cost optimization recommendations for service tiers in the

same direct way Advisor does.

C. Metrics: Metrics are raw performance data points (e.g., CPU, memory usage) available

within Azure Monitor. While useful for analysis, they don't offer direct, consolidated

recommendations for cost optimization.

D. Customer insights: Azure Customer Insights is a customer data platform (CDP) and is

unrelated to Azure infrastructure optimization or virtual machine cost management.

Microsoft Azure. (n.d.). Introduction to Azure Advisor. Microsoft Learn. Retrieved from

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-overview (Focus on "Cost

optimization" section)

Microsoft Azure. (n.d.). Optimize costs with Azure Advisor. Microsoft Learn. Retrieved from

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-cost-recommendations (Specifically

mentions "Optimize virtual machine (VM) or virtual machine scale set (VMSS) spend by

resizing or shutting down underutilized instances")