Azure Cost Management Skill
技能 活跃Unified Azure cost management: query historical costs, forecast future spending, and optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: "Azure costs", "Azure spending", "Azure bill", "cost breakdown", "cost by service", "cost by resource", "how much am I spending", "show my bill", "monthly cost summary", "cost trends", "top cost drivers", "actual cost", "amortized cost", "forecast spending", "projected costs", "estimate bill", "future costs", "budget forecast", "end of month costs", "how much will I spend", "optimize costs", "reduce spending", "find cost savings", "orphaned resources", "rightsize VMs", "cost analysis", "reduce waste", "unused resources", "optimize Redis costs", "cost by tag", "cost by resource group", "AKS cost analysis add-on", "namespace cost", "cost spike", "anomaly", "budget alert", "AKS cost visibility". DO NOT USE FOR: deploying resources, provisioning infrastructure, diagnostics, security audits, or estimating costs for new resources not yet deployed.
To provide a comprehensive and unified solution for managing Azure costs, enabling users to understand their current spending, predict future expenses, and identify opportunities for cost optimization.
功能
- Query historical Azure costs
- Forecast future Azure spending
- Optimize Azure costs and reduce waste
- Analyze costs by service, resource, or tag
- Identify orphaned or unused resources
使用场景
- When needing to understand monthly Azure spending breakdown
- When planning to forecast upcoming Azure bills
- When looking to identify and reduce Azure cost inefficiencies
- When needing to find orphaned or over-provisioned Azure resources
非目标
- Deploying or provisioning Azure resources
- Performing general diagnostics or security audits
- Estimating costs for new, un-deployed resources
- Managing infrastructure beyond cost optimization
实践
- Cost Management
- Cloud Optimization
- Azure Governance
- Billing Analysis
先决条件
- Azure Cost Management Reader role
- Azure Monitoring Reader role
- Reader role on the relevant scope (subscription, resource group, etc.)
- Azure CLI
Practical Utility
- info:Usage examplesWhile the SKILL.md outlines workflows and provides example prompts, it does not include concrete, end-to-end, ready-to-run examples with observable outputs for each major capability.
Documentation
- info:Configuration & parameter referenceThe SKILL.md provides API endpoints and references MCP tools with parameters, but a comprehensive reference for all parameters, defaults, and precedence order is not explicitly detailed.
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionWith 19 open issues and 11 closed in the last 90 days, the closure rate is below 50%, indicating potential slow response times from maintainers.
安装
请先添加 Marketplace
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/skills/plugin install azure-skills@skills质量评分
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