Azure Recommendations
Recommendations help kickstart your journey with governance. Essentially, Harness runs certain policies behind the scenes to generate recommendations for your governance-enabled Azure subscriptions. These policies not only help to cut costs but also increase the efficiency of your system. On the Governance Overview page, Harness showcases recommendations that will benefit you to save costs on associated resources. You can click on any recommendation to view its details.
Listed below are the custodian policies which are used to generate recommendations that Harness offers for Azure. Along with each policy, you can also find their respective descriptions, the logic behind savings computation and the permissions required to generate or apply these recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-low-utilised-cosmodb
Description: Delete low utilised CosmosDB based on total requests in last 72 hours.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-low-utilised-cosmodb
resource: azure.cosmosdb
description: |
Delete low utilised CosmosDB based on total requests in last 72 hours
filters:
- type: metric
metric: TotalRequests
op: le
aggregation: total
threshold: 1000
timeframe: 72
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-unattached-disk
Description: Delete all unattached disks.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-unattached-disk
resource: azure.disk
description: |
Delete all unattached disks
filters:
- type: value
key: properties.diskState
value: Unattached
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The recommendation identifies a list of resources; to calculate potential savings, the costs of all resources over the last 30 days are summed together and that is shown as the potential savings.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-low-utilised-load-balancers
Description: Delete all low utilised load balancers where packet count is less than 1000 in last 72 hours.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-low-utilised-load-balancers
resource: azure.loadbalancer
description: |
Delete all low utilised load balancers where packet count is less than 1000 in last 72 hours
filters:
- type: metric
metric: PacketCount
op: le
aggregation: total
threshold: 1000
timeframe: 72
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-orphaned-network-interface
Description: Delete network interface which are not attached to virtual machine.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-orphaned-network-interface
resource: azure.networkinterface
description: |
Delete network interface which are not attached to virtual machine
filters:
- type: value
key: properties.virtualMachine
value: null
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: stop-underutilized-vms
Description: Stop underutilised virtual machines with average CPU utilisation less than 5% in last 72 hours.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: stop-underutilized-vms
resource: azure.vm
description: |
Stop underutilised virtual machines with average CPU utilisation less than 5% in last 72 hours
filters:
- type: metric
metric: Percentage CPU
op: le
aggregation: average
threshold: 5
timeframe: 72
actions:
- type: stop
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-low-utilised-keyvaults
Description: Delete KeyVaults with less than 10 API hits in last 72 hours.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-low-utilised-keyvaults
resource: azure.keyvault
description: |
Delete KeyVaults with less than 10 API hits in last 72 hours
filters:
- type: metric
metric: ServiceApiHit
aggregation: total
op: lt
threshold: 10
timeframe: 72
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-low-utilised-sql-server
Description: Delete SQL servers with less than 10% average DTU consumption over last 72 hours.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-low-utilised-sql-server
resource: azure.sqlserver
description: |
Delete SQL servers with less than 10% average DTU consumption over last 72 hours
filters:
- type: metric
metric: dtu_consumption_percent
aggregation: average
op: lt
threshold: 10
timeframe: 72
filter: "DatabaseResourceId eq '*'"
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-unattached-publicip
Description: Delete public ip which are not attached to any network interface.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-unattached-publicip
resource: azure.publicip
description: |
Delete public ip which are not attached to any network interface
filters:
- type: value
key: properties.ipConfiguration
value: null
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-low-utilised-datalake
Description: Delete all Datalake Stores with less than 1000 read requests or 1000 write requests in the last 72 hours.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-low-utilised-datalake
resource: azure.datalake
description: |
Delete all Datalake Stores with less than 1000 read requests or 1000 write requests in the last 72 hours
filters:
- or:
- type: metric
metric: ReadRequests
op: le
aggregation: total
threshold: 1000
timeframe: 72
- type: metric
metric: WriteRequests
op: le
aggregation: total
threshold: 100
timeframe: 72
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Recommendation: delete-unused-postgresql-servers
Description: Delete PostgreSQL Servers that have had zero active connections in the last 72 hours.
Policy Used:
policies:
- name: delete-unused-postgresql-servers
resource: azure.postgresql-server
description: |
Delete PostgreSQL Servers that have had zero active connections in the last 72 hours
filters:
- type: metric
metric: active_connections
op: eq
threshold: 0
timeframe: 72
actions:
- type: delete
Savings Computed: The policy identifies a list of resources on which potential savings are calculated by summing up cost of each resource for last 30 days.
Permissions Required: To execute the action section of the custodian policy, the Contributor Role is required, whereas the Reader Role suffices for generating recommendations.
Custom Policies
- Find SQL Databases with a monthly long term backup retention period more than one year
policies:
- name: long-term-backup-retention
resource: azure.sqldatabase
filters:
- type: long-term-backup-retention
backup-type: monthly
op: gt
retention-period: 1
retention-period-units: year
- Filter to select all virtual machines that are not running:
policies:
- name: stopped-vm
resource: azure.vm
filters:
- type: instance-view
key: statuses[].code
op: not-in
value_type: swap
value: "PowerState/running"
- Removes all empty resource groups from the subscription:
policies:
- name: rg-remove-empty
description: |
Removes any empty resource groups from subscription
resource: azure.resourcegroup
filters:
- type: empty-group
actions:
- type: delete
- Restricts access to storage accounts with specified ip rules to only the ips specified:
policies:
- name: storage-block-public-access
description: |
Blocks public access to storage accounts with defined IP access rules.
resource: azure.storage
filters:
- type: value
key: properties.networkAcls.ipRules
value_type: size
op: ne
value: 0
actions:
- type: set-firewall-rules
default-action: Deny
ip-rules: []
- Find all SQL databases with Premium SKU:
policies:
- name: sqldatabase-with-premium-sku
resource: azure.sqldatabase
filters:
- type: value
key: sku.tier
op: eq
value: Premium