Azure made announcement to native advisor with lot of new enhancement on Managing the resources with best practices with free of cost of consuming the advisor services.

Azure Advisor is inbuilt/native tool to view the recommendation on High availability, Security, Performance, Cost and Tips/Tricks. Advisor blade provides lot of advantage over review the resources tips and tricks to move and manage the resources with best practices and make implementation, operations management simple.

Advisor analytics review and provides insights of issue on Azure resources.

Advisor Benefits:

• Inbuilt security, availability, performance and cost advisory which reduces performance additional to insights and provide recommendations.
• Advisor Blade configuration provides ResourceGroup level resources selection for analytics which provides flexibility to select the production resources across multiple subscriptions.
• Single blade to provide you Tips & Tricks on Instance, Backup, Security and Costing
• Help you to configure the rule on cpu threshold level to identify the low performance VMs with recommendation to move to Right Size or Shutdown approaches.
• Advisor provides recommendations to underutilized resources by 14 days of usage pattern.
• Advisor exporting the report in csv and pdf formats to share with managements view easily.
• Reminder support on the recommendations.
• Azure advisor support API functions to do Operations, Recommendations, Suppressions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/

• Advisor provides recommendations for virtual machines, availability sets, application gateways, App Services, SQL servers, SQL databases, and Redis Cache.
• Azure Advisor is free of cost to use.
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

Free primarily inbuilt tool (Azure Advisor) provides cost advisory on low consumption VM based cost savings. It made easy control to cost/budget and operational overhead.

How to enable the Advisor to do Cost Savings

1. Link to login to Azure Advisor Blade: http://aka.ms/AzureAdvisor
2. Select the Configure Options
   
3. Select the Resources to control which resource group want to do analytics with Advisor across subscription to provide recommendations and Apply to save the changes.
   
4. Select the Rules to configure the threshold value to identify the underutilized VMs.
   
5. Edit to configure the Set the recommendation rule and Apply to save the changes.
   

How to review the Advisor Recommendations

1. Select the Advisor Blade and select the overview on recommendation across all services supported by advisor services.
   
2. Select the Cost Recommendation pane to review the underutilized resources details.
   
3. Selecting on impacted instance will provide details of instance information and action recommendation to perform with criticality information.
   

In Overview Advisor provides Tips & tricks recommendation information dashboard. And reports are downloadable in PDF, CSV formats.

Sample Recommendations by Azure Advisor:

On Cost savings:

On High Availability:

Reference:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-advisor-got-better/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/index/?services=advisor

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes?toc=%2Fazure%2Fvirtual-machines%2Fwindows%2Ftoc.json

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/convert-unmanaged-to-managed-disks#convert-vms-in-an-availability-set-to-managed-disks-in-a-managed-availability-set