Merge pull request #251744 from mabrahms/main

Advisor Get Start Update (3rd try)

Author: American-Dipper

articles/advisor/advisor-get-started.md

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 title: Get started with Azure Advisor
 description: Get started with Azure Advisor.
+author: mabrahms
+ms.author: v-mabrahms
+ms.service: azure
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 02/01/2019
+ms.date: 09/15/2023
 
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 # Get started with Azure Advisor
 
-Learn how to access Advisor through the Azure portal, get recommendations, and implement recommendations.
+Learn how to access Advisor through the Azure portal, get and manage recommendations, and configure Advisor settings.
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> Azure Advisor automatically runs in the background to find newly created resources. It can take up to 24 hours to provide recommendations on those resources.
+> Azure Advisor runs in the background to find newly created resources. It can take up to 24 hours to provide recommendations on those resources.
 
-## Get recommendations
-
-1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com).
-
-1. In the left pane, click **Advisor**.  If you do not see Advisor in the left pane, click **All services**.  In the service menu pane, under **Monitoring and Management**, click **Advisor**. The Advisor dashboard is displayed.
-
-   ![Access Azure Advisor using the Azure portal](./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-portal-menu.png) 
-
-1. The Advisor dashboard will display a summary of your recommendations for all selected subscriptions.  You can choose the subscriptions that you want recommendations to be displayed for using the subscription filter dropdown.
-
-1. To get recommendations for a specific category, click one of the tabs: **Cost**, **Security**, **Reliability**, **Operational Excellence**, or **Performance**. 
-
-   ![Azure Advisor dashboard](./media/advisor-overview/advisor-dashboard.png)
+## Open Advisor
 
-## Get recommendation details and implement a solution
+To access Azure Advisor, sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com) and open [Advisor](https://aka.ms/azureadvisordashboard). The Advisor score page opens by default. 
 
-You can select a recommendation in Advisor to view additional details – such as the recommendation actions and impacted resources – and to implement the solution to the recommendation.  
+You can also use the search bar at the top, or the left navigation pane, to find Advisor.
 
-1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), and then open [Advisor](https://aka.ms/azureadvisordashboard).
+:::image type="content" source="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-score-page.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Azure Advisor opening score page." lightbox="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-score-page.png":::
 
-1. Select a recommendation category to display the list of recommendations within that category, or select the **All** tab to view all your recommendations.
+## Read your score
+See how your system configuration measures against Azure best practices.
 
-1. Click a recommendation that you want to review in detail.
+:::image type="content" source="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-score-page-graphs-detail.png" alt-text="Screenshot detail of Azure Advisor workloads score graphs." lightbox="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-score-page-graphs-detail.png":::
 
-1. Review the information about the recommendation and the resources that the recommendation applies to.
+* The far-left graphic is your overall system Advisor score against Azure best practices. The **Learn more** link opens the [Optimize Azure workloads by using Advisor score](azure-advisor-score.md) page. 
 
-1. Click on the **Recommended Action** to implement the recommendation.
+* The middle graphic depicts the trend of your system Advisor score history. Roll over the graphic to activate a slider to see your trend at different points of time. Use the drop-down menu to pick a trend time frame.
 
-## Filter recommendations
+* The far-right graphic shows a breakdown of your best practices Advisor score per category. Click a category bar to open the recommendations page for that category.
 
-You can filter recommendations to drill down to what is most important to you.  You can filter by subscription, resource type, or recommendation status.  
-
-1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), and then open [Advisor](https://aka.ms/azureadvisordashboard).
-
-1. Use the dropdowns on the Advisor dashboard to filter by subscription, resource type, or recommendation status.
-
-    ![Advisor search-filter criteria](./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-filters.png)
-
-## Postpone or dismiss recommendations
-
-1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), and then open [Advisor](https://aka.ms/azureadvisordashboard).
+## Get recommendations
 
-1. Navigate to the recommendation you want to postpone or dismiss.
+To display a specific list of recommendations, click a category tile. 
 
-1. Click the recommendation.
+The tiles on the Advisor score page show the different categories of recommendations per subscription:  
 
-1. Click **Postpone**. 
+* To get recommendations for a specific category, click one of the tiles. To open a list of all recommendations for all categories, click the **All recommendations** tile. By default, the **Cost** tile is selected. 
 
-1. Specify a postpone time period, or select **Never** to dismiss the recommendation.
+* You can filter the display using the buttons at the top of the page:
+   * **Subscription**: Choose *All* for Advisor recommendations on all subscriptions. Alternatively, select specific subscriptions. Apply changes by clicking outside of the button.
+   * **Recommendation Status**: *Active* (the default, recommendations that you haven't postponed or dismissed), *Postponed* or *Dismissed*. Apply changes by clicking outside of the button.
+   * **Resource Group**: Choose *All* (the default) or specific resource groups. Apply changes by clicking outside of the button.
+   * **Type**: Choose *All* (the default) or specific resources. Apply changes by clicking outside of the button.
+   * **Commitments**: Applicable only to cost recommendations. Adjust your subscription **Cost** recommendations to reflect your committed **Term (years)** and chosen **Look-back period (days)**. Apply changes by clicking **Apply**.
+   * For more advanced filtering, click **Add filter**.
 
-## Exclude subscriptions or resource groups
+* The **Commitments** button lets you adjust your subscription **Cost** recommendations to reflect your committed **Term (years)** and chosen **Look-back period (days)**.
 
-You may have resource groups or subscriptions for which you do not want to receive Advisor recommendations – such as ‘test’ resources.  You can configure Advisor to only generate recommendations for specific subscriptions and resource groups.
+## Get recommendation details and solution options
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> To include or exclude a subscription or resource group from Advisor, you must be a subscription Owner.  If you do not have the required permissions for a subscription or resource group, the option to include or exclude it is disabled in the user interface.
+View recommendation details – such as the recommended actions and impacted resources – and the solution options, including postponing or dismissing a recommendation.
 
-1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), and then open [Advisor](https://aka.ms/azureadvisordashboard).
+1. To review details of a recommendation, including the affected resources, open the recommendation list for a category and then click the **Description** or the **Impacted resources** link for a specific recommendation. The following screenshot shows a **Reliability** recommendation details page.
 
-1. Click **Configure** in the action bar.
+   :::image type="content" source="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-score-reliability-recommendation-page.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Azure Advisor reliability recommendation details example." lightbox="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-score-reliability-recommendation-page.png":::
 
-1. Uncheck any subscriptions or resource groups you do not want to receive Advisor recommendations for.
+1. To see action details, click a **Recommended actions** link. The Azure page where you can act opens. Alternatively, open a page to the affected resources to take the recommended action (the two pages may be the same).
+  
+   Understand the recommendation before you act by clicking the **Learn more** link on the recommended action page, or at the top of the recommendations details page.
 
-    ![Advisor configure resources example](./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-configure-resources.png)
+1.   You can postpone the recommendation.
+   
+   :::image type="content" source="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-recommendation-postpone.png" alt-text="Sreenshot of Azure Advisor recommendation postpone option." lightbox="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-recommendation-postpone.png":::
 
-1. Click the **Apply** button.
+   You can't dismiss the recommendation without certain privileges. For information on permissions, see [Permissions in Azure Advisor](permissions.md).
 
-## Configure low usage VM recommendation
+## Download recommendations
 
-This procedure configures the average CPU utilization rule for the low usage virtual machine recommendation.
+To download your recommendations from the Advisor score or any recommendation details page, click **Download as CSV** or **Download as PDF** on the action bar at the top. The download option respects any filters you have applied to Advisor.  If you select the download option while viewing a specific recommendation category or recommendation, the downloaded summary only includes information for that category or recommendation.
 
-Advisor monitors your virtual machine usage for 7 days by default and then identifies low-utilization virtual machines.
-Virtual machines are considered low-utilization if their CPU utilization is 5% or less and their network utilization is less than 2% or if the current workload can be accommodated by a smaller virtual machine size.
+## Configure recommendations
 
-If you would like to be more aggressive at identifying low usage virtual machines, you can adjust the average CPU utilization rule and the look back period on a per subscription basis.
-The CPU utilization rule can be set to 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, or 100%(Default). In case the trigger is selected as 100%, it will present recommendations for virtual machines with less than 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% of CPU utilization.
-You can select how far back in historical data you want to analyze: 7 days (default), 14, 21, 30, 60, or 90 days.
+You can exclude subscriptions or resources, such as 'test' resources, from Advisor recommendations and configure Advisor to generate recommendations only for specific subscriptions and resource groups.
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> To adjust the average CPU utilization rule for identifying low usage virtual machines, you must be a subscription *Owner*.  If you do not have the required permissions for a subscription or resource group, the option to include or exclude it will be disabled in the user interface. 
-
-1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), and then open [Advisor](https://aka.ms/azureadvisordashboard).
-
-1. Click **Configure** in the action bar.
-
-1. Click the **Rules** tab.
-
-1. Select the subscriptions you’d like to adjust the average CPU utilization rule for, and then click **Edit**.
-
-1. Select the desired average CPU utilization value, and click **Apply**.
-
-1. Click **Refresh recommendations** to update your existing recommendations to use the new average CPU utilization rule. 
+> To change subscriptions or Advisor compute rules, you must be a subscription Owner.  If you do not have the required permissions, the option is disabled in the user interface. For information on permissions, see [Permissions in Azure Advisor](permissions.md). For details on right sizing VMs, see [Reduce service costs by using Azure Advisor](advisor-cost-recommendations.md).
 
-   ![Advisor configure recommendation rules example](./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-configure-rules.png)
+From any Azure Advisor page, click **Configuration** in the left navigation pane. The Advisor Configuration page opens with the **Resources** tab selected, by default. 
 
-## Download recommendations
+:::image type="content" source="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-configure-resources.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Azure Advisor configuration option for resources." lightbox="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-configure-resources.png":::
 
-Advisor enables you to download a summary of your recommendations.  You can download your recommendations as a PDF file or a CSV file.  Downloading your recommendations enables you to easily share with your colleagues or perform your own analysis on top of the recommendation data.
+* **Resources**: Uncheck any subscriptions you don't want to receive Advisor recommendations for, click **Apply**. The page refreshes.
 
-1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), and then open [Advisor](https://aka.ms/azureadvisordashboard).
+* **VM/VMSS right sizing**: You can adjust the average CPU utilization rule and the look back period on a per-subscription basis. Doing virtual machine (VM) right sizing requires specialized knowledge.
 
-1. Click **Download as CSV** or **Download as PDF** on the action bar.
+  1. Select the subscriptions you’d like to adjust the average CPU utilization rule for, and then click **Edit**. Not all subscriptions can be edited for VM/VMSS right sizing and certain privileges are required; for more information on permissions, see [Permissions in Azure Advisor](permissions.md).
+    
+  1. Select the desired average CPU utilization value and click **Apply**. It can take up to 24 hours for the new settings to be reflected in recommendations.
 
-The download option respects any filters you have applied to the Advisor dashboard.  If you select the download option while viewing a specific recommendation category or recommendation, the downloaded summary only includes information for that category or recommendation. 
+  :::image type="content" source="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-configure-rules.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Azure Advisor configuration option for VM/VMSS sizing rules." lightbox="./media/advisor-get-started/advisor-configure-rules.png":::
 
 ## Next steps
 
 To learn more about Advisor, see:
 
 - [Introduction to Azure Advisor](advisor-overview.md)
-- [Advisor Reliability recommendations](advisor-high-availability-recommendations.md)
-- [Advisor Security recommendations](advisor-security-recommendations.md)
-- [Advisor Performance recommendations](advisor-performance-recommendations.md)
 - [Advisor Cost recommendations](advisor-cost-recommendations.md)
+- [Advisor Security recommendations](advisor-security-recommendations.md)
+- [Advisor Reliability recommendations](advisor-high-availability-recommendations.md)
 - [Advisor Operational Excellence recommendations](advisor-operational-excellence-recommendations.md)
+- [Advisor Performance recommendations](advisor-performance-recommendations.md)

articles/advisor/media/advisor-get-started/advisor-configure-resources.png

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 Azure Advisor monitors your virtual machine usage for seven days and then identifies underutilized virtual machines. Virtual machines whose CPU utilization is five percent or less and network usage is seven MB or less for four or more days are considered low-utilization virtual machines.
 
-The 5% or less CPU utilization setting is the default, but you can adjust the settings. For more information about adjusting the setting, see the [Configure the average CPU utilization rule or the low usage virtual machine recommendation](../../advisor/advisor-get-started.md#configure-low-usage-vm-recommendation).
+The 5% or less CPU utilization setting is the default, but you can adjust the settings. For more information about adjusting the setting, see the [Configure the average CPU utilization rule or the low usage virtual machine recommendation](../../advisor/advisor-get-started.md#configure-recommendations).
 
 Although some scenarios can result in low utilization by design, you can often save money by changing the size of your virtual machines to less expensive sizes. Your actual savings might vary if you choose a resize action. Let's walk through an example of resizing a virtual machine.