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 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Operations API, Recommendations API, Advisor Score Entities API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Advisor, Best Practices, Cost Optimization, Microsoft Azure, and Optimization.

The Microsoft Azure Advisor catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Microsoft Azure Advisor’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, CLI, changelog, engineering blog, authentication, developer portal, documentation, and 32 more developer resources.

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64.7/100 strong ▲ 20.6 Agent 30/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 published contract

Advisor Best Practices Cost Optimization Microsoft Azure Optimization Recommendations

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 64.7/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 10.7 / 15

Access Clarity 7.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 7.4 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 6.2 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 56.5 — up to +10.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 47.4 — up to +10.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 22.0 — up to +9.4 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/microsoft-azure-advisor/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-azure-advisor to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 8

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

Microsoft Azure Advisor Advisor Score Entities API

The AdvisorScoreEntities API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 2 operation(s) for advisorscoreentities.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Metadata Entities API

The MetadataEntities API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 2 operation(s) for metadataentities.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Resiliency Reviews API

The ResiliencyReviews API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 2 operation(s) for resiliencyreviews.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Resource Recommendation Bases API

The ResourceRecommendationBases API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 3 operation(s) for resourcerecommendationbases.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 8 operation(s) for subscriptions.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Suppression Contracts API

The SuppressionContracts API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 1 operation(s) for suppressioncontracts.

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Open Collections 3

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

Azure Advisor REST Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure Advisor REST Operations Recommendations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure Advisor REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Microsoft Azure Advisor API pricing

Rate limits

Subscription reads: Subscription reads 250 25
Subscription deletes: Subscription deletes 200 10
Subscription writes: Subscription writes 200 10

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Microsoft Azure Advisor Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Context

5 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Microsoft Azure Advisor API Rules

43 rules · 40 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

OperationList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Resource

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 4

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

Microsoft Azure Advisor Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Advisor Trust Center

GDPR

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

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

SecurityTxt

Security

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Support

StatusPage

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Leadership

Leadership

Source (apis.yml)

aid: microsoft-azure-advisor
name: Microsoft Azure Advisor
x-parent: microsoft-azure
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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/adaptive-cards/sdk/rendering-cards/android/getting-started
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/microsoft-azure-advisor-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/microsoft-azure-advisor-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/microsoft-azure-advisor-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/microsoft-azure-advisor-data-model.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/microsoft-azure-advisor-cli.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/microsoft-azure-advisor-conventions.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trust-center
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/microsoft-azure-advisor-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/microsoft-azure-advisor-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/microsoft-azure-advisor-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/microsoft-azure-advisor-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/microsoft-azure-advisor-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/microsoft-azure-advisor-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/microsoft-azure-advisor-vendors.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/microsoft-azure-advisor-packages.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/security
- type: Leadership
  url: https://news.microsoft.com/leadership
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/changelog
- type: Blog
  url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/azure/blog/azuredevcommunityblog
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/microsoft-azure-advisor-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/microsoft-azure-advisor-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/microsoft-azure-advisor-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/microsoft-azure-advisor-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/microsoft-azure-advisor-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://microsoft.com
- 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
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: []
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-advisor-operation-list-schema.json
- 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
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-advisor-resource-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-advisor-resource-list-schema.json
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-advisorscoreentities-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Advisor Score Entities API
  description: The AdvisorScoreEntities API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 2 operation(s) for advisorscoreentities.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - AdvisorScoreEntities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-advisorscoreentities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-metadataentities-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Metadata Entities API
  description: The MetadataEntities API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 2 operation(s) for metadataentities.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - MetadataEntities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-metadataentities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-resiliencyreviews-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Resiliency Reviews API
  description: The ResiliencyReviews API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 2 operation(s) for resiliencyreviews.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - ResiliencyReviews
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-resiliencyreviews-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-resourcerecommendationbases-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Resource Recommendation Bases API
  description: The ResourceRecommendationBases API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 3 operation(s) for resourcerecommendationbases.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - ResourceRecommendationBases
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-resourcerecommendationbases-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-subscriptions-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Subscriptions API
  description: The Subscriptions API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 8 operation(s) for subscriptions.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Subscription
  tags_raw:
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-suppressioncontracts-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Suppression Contracts API
  description: The SuppressionContracts API from Microsoft Azure Advisor — 1 operation(s) for suppressioncontracts.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - SuppressionContracts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-suppressioncontracts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: local-v6

Microsoft Azure Advisor API — frequently asked questions

Does Microsoft Azure Advisor have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Microsoft Azure Advisor, including Microsoft Azure Advisor Operations API, Microsoft Azure Advisor Recommendations API and Microsoft Azure Advisor Advisor Score Entities API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Microsoft Azure Advisor API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Microsoft Azure Advisor, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Microsoft Azure Advisor API?

Microsoft Azure Advisor uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Microsoft Azure Advisor Authentication.

Is the Microsoft Azure Advisor API ready for AI agents?

Microsoft Azure Advisor has a Kin Score of 64.7 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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