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Microsoft Azure Advisor

Microsoft Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry, then recommends solutions to improve the cost effectiveness, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence of your Azure resources.

Microsoft Azure Advisor publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Operations API and Recommendations API. Tagged areas include Advisor, Best Practices, Cost Optimization, Microsoft Azure, and Optimization.

Microsoft Azure Advisor’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, pricing, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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48.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
2 APIs
AdvisorBest PracticesCost OptimizationMicrosoft AzureOptimizationRecommendations

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 48.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Operations API

Operations operations

Microsoft Azure Advisor Recommendations API

Recommendations operations

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Azure Advisor REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Advisor Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Scopes

1 scope · implicit

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Agentic Access

7 operations · 3 acting

7 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 LlmsText
LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: microsoft-azure-advisor
name: Microsoft Azure Advisor
description: Microsoft Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your
  Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry, then recommends solutions to improve the
  cost effectiveness, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence of your Azure resources.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/microsoft-azure-advisor.png
tags:
- Advisor
- Best Practices
- Cost Optimization
- Microsoft Azure
- Optimization
- Recommendations
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-azure-advisor/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-operations-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Operations API
  description: Operations operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/authentication-vs-authorization
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/main/sdk/advisor
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-recommendations-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Recommendations API
  description: Recommendations operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags:
  - Recommendations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-recommendations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/authentication-vs-authorization
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/main/sdk/advisor
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/microsoft-azure-advisor-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/microsoft-azure-advisor-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/microsoft-azure-advisor-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/microsoft-azure-advisor-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: Support
  url: https://support.microsoft.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.azure.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Azure
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://portal.azure.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com