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Recommendations

Opportunity summary

Groups open Advisor recommendations by Advisor's own High/Medium/Low business-impact rating; segments count recommendations, not projected dollar savings.10 recommendation(s)
Why this matters

Impact severity reflects Advisor's own rating, not cost — a High-impact item isn't necessarily the most expensive one. Cross-check against the estimated run-rate in the table below, or Rightsizing for VM-specific detail.

  • Good impact (3)
  • Warning impact (4)
  • Serious impact (3)
  • Critical impact (1)

Up to ~$140/mo in current VM run-rate across 1 of 2 right-sizing/shutdown recommendation(s) with a matched, ingested resource.

High-impact share

Percentage of currently open Advisor recommendations rated High business impact by Advisor itself; not a dollar-weighted measure.3 of 10
Why this matters

A high share signals a backlog worth triaging soon, not which specific item to fix first — impact rating alone doesn't reflect cost or effort. Sort the table below by estimated run-rate to prioritize by dollar impact instead.

3 of 10 recommendation(s) carry Advisor's own "High" business impact rating.

Recommendations by theme

Groups open recommendations by remediation theme (right-sizing, reserved instances, unused resources, etc.); bar length is a recommendation count, not a savings estimate.6 theme(s)
Why this matters

A theme with many recommendations often reflects one systemic gap (e.g. no autoscale configured anywhere) rather than many unrelated issues — fixing the root cause once may close several recommendations at once.

Recommendation detail Lists Advisor's exact problem, suggested action, impact, resource, and any supportable current run-rate estimate.
Category Theme Impact Impacted resource Problem Suggested action Last updated Est. current run-rate
Cost Storage optimization Low stbhappdata01 Storage account "stbhappdata01" uses GZRS replication, which costs more than locally redundant storage. Review whether geo-redundancy is required for this data, or switch to LRS/ZRS to reduce cost. 2026-10-24 —
HighAvailability Reliability High vm-bh-app-01 Business-critical virtual machine "vm-bh-app-01" has no modeled availability-zone placement. Deploy the workload across availability zones or document an equivalent resilience design. 2026-10-24 ~$140/mo
OperationalExcellence Operational excellence Medium vm-bh-app-01 Business-critical virtual machine "vm-bh-app-01" has no modeled diagnostic-settings evidence. Configure diagnostic settings and route platform logs and metrics to the approved monitoring destination. 2026-10-24 ~$140/mo
Cost Right-sizing / shutdown Medium vm-bh-app-01 Virtual machine "vm-bh-app-01" has averaged 10.26% CPU, below a typical utilization threshold. Right-size to a smaller SKU or shut this virtual machine down during idle periods to reduce cost. 2026-10-24 ~$140/mo
Performance Performance Medium stbhappdata02 Storage account "stbhappdata02" is experiencing request throttling due to exceeding its transaction limit. Increase the account's performance tier or distribute load across multiple accounts. 2026-09-01 —
Performance Performance Low vm-data-worker-03 Virtual machine "vm-data-worker-03" supports accelerated networking but does not have it enabled. Enable accelerated networking on this VM's network interface. 2026-09-01 —
Performance Performance High vm-batch-node-04 Virtual machine "vm-batch-node-04" has averaged 92% CPU utilization, above a typical capacity threshold. Upgrade to a larger VM size to relieve the capacity constraint. 2026-09-01 —
Performance Performance Low redis-session-cache Redis cache "redis-session-cache" is running with a non-recommended eviction policy configuration. Review the cache configuration and tuning settings for this workload. 2026-09-01 —
Security Security High kv-app-secrets Key Vault "kv-app-secrets" does not have soft delete and purge protection fully enabled. Enable soft delete and purge protection to protect against accidental or malicious deletion. 2026-09-01 —
Security Security Medium nsg-app-frontend Network security group "nsg-app-frontend" has a rule allowing unrestricted inbound access. Restrict the inbound rule to only the required source IP ranges. 2026-09-01 —

Run-rate is an estimate at current on-demand retail pricing for the flagged VM's SKU/region (see the Rightsizing page) — not a guaranteed savings figure. Only shown where this recommendation's resource could be matched to ingested VM data.

Savings-realization ledger

A manual record of which recommendation you acted on, when, and the dollar impact you observed — AFP has no reliable way to detect this automatically (a recommendation disappearing from a later scan could mean it was acted on, or that the resource was deleted, or that Advisor re-evaluated differently).0 entry(ies)
Why this matters

Recording entries here builds the real cumulative trend above over time, matching the FinOps Framework's own guidance to track optimization impact against initial estimates.

e.g. "Resized vm-app-01 from D4s_v3 to D2s_v3"

No entries recorded yet. Add one above whenever you act on a recommendation.