Azure Advisor Recommendation Config Builder

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Build Advisor alert configs with category-based alert rules, weekly digest emails, recommendation suppressions, and thresholds.

Azure Advisor Configuration

Build Advisor alert configs with category-based alert rules, weekly digest emails, recommendation suppressions, and threshold settings.

Required Fields

configurationNamescopealertRulesalertRules[0].namealertRules[0].categoryalertRules[0].enabled

{
  "configurationName": "advisor-config-prod",
  "scope": "/subscriptions/a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
  "alertRules": [
    {
      "name": "advisor-alert-high-availability",
      "category": "HighAvailability",
      "impactLevel": ["High", "Medium"],
      "enabled": true,
      "actionGroupId": "/subscriptions/a1b2c3d4/resourceGroups/rg-monitoring/providers/microsoft.insights/actionGroups/ag-platform-team",
      "description": "Alert when new high-availability recommendations are generated."
    },
    {
      "name": "advisor-alert-security",
      "category": "Security",
      "impactLevel": ["High"],
      "enabled": true,
      "actionGroupId": "/subscriptions/a1b2c3d4/resourceGroups/rg-monitoring/providers/microsoft.insights/actionGroups/ag-security-team",
      "description": "Alert on high-impact security recommendations."
    },
    {
      "name": "advisor-alert-cost",
      "category": "Cost",
      "impactLevel": ["High", "Medium"],
      "enabled": true,
      "actionGroupId": "/subscriptions/a1b2c3d4/resourceGroups/rg-monitoring/providers/microsoft.insights/actionGroups/ag-finops-team",
      "description": "Alert on cost optimization opportunities."
    },
    {
      "name": "advisor-alert-performance",
      "category": "Performance",
      "impactLevel": ["High"],
      "enabled": true,
      "actionGroupId": "/subscriptions/a1b2c3d4/resourceGroups/rg-monitoring/providers/microsoft.insights/actionGroups/ag-platform-team"
    }
  ],
  "digestConfiguration": {
    "name": "weekly-advisor-digest",
    "enabled": true,
    "frequency": "Weekly",
    "categories": ["HighAvailability", "Security", "Performance", "Cost", "OperationalExcellence"],
    "language": "en",
    "contactEmails": ["cloud-governance@contoso.com", "engineering-leads@contoso.com"],
    "state": "Active"
  },
  "suppressions": [
    {
      "name": "suppress-dev-vm-rightsizing",
      "recommendationId": "e10b1381-5f0a-47ad-8b52-b3b8c0abcdef",
      "resourceId": "/subscriptions/a1b2c3d4/resourceGroups/rg-dev/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vm-dev-test",
      "ttl": "P90D",
      "reason": "Dev VM intentionally oversized for load testing."
    }
  ],
  "configurationProperties": {
    "lowCpuThreshold": "10",
    "excludeResourceTypes": ["Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines"],
    "excludeResourceGroups": ["rg-sandbox-*"]
  }
}

Generated Output

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How It Helps

Build Advisor alert configs with category-based alert rules, weekly digest emails, recommendation suppressions, and thresholds. This tool helps Azure engineers generate valid configurations quickly without consulting documentation, reducing errors and accelerating infrastructure deployment. All processing runs in your browser with no data sent to external servers.

Things Engineers Ask

Does this tool connect to my Azure account?

No. This tool runs entirely in your browser and generates configuration JSON that you can copy and paste into your infrastructure-as-code templates, CLI commands, or cloud console. It never connects to any cloud account or sends data externally.

Are the generated configurations production-ready?

The tool produces syntactically valid configurations based on current Azure service specifications. Always review generated configs against your organization security policies and test in a non-production environment before deploying.

Practical Applications

1Generating azure advisor recommendation configurations for new infrastructure deployments.
2Validating existing configurations against best practices before applying changes.
3Learning Azure service configuration patterns through interactive examples.
4Accelerating infrastructure-as-code development by producing correct JSON/YAML starting points.

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