This Policy Template leverages the Azure API for Reserved Instance Utilization and Details. It will notify only if utilization of a RI falls below the value specified in the Show Reservations with utilization below this value (%) field. It examines the RI utilization for the prior 7 days or 30 days.
This policy has the following input parameters required when launching the policy.
- Email Addresses - A list of email addresses to notify
- Azure Endpoint - Azure Endpoint to access resources
- Look Back Period - The number of days of past Azure Reservation Utilization data to analyze
- Reservation Utilization (%) - Show Reservations with utilization below this value (%).
The following policy actions are taken on any resources found to be out of compliance.
- Send an email report
This Policy Template uses Credentials for authenticating to datasources -- in order to apply this policy you must have a Credential registered in the system that is compatible with this policy. If there are no Credentials listed when you apply the policy, please contact your Flexera Org Admin and ask them to register a Credential that is compatible with this policy. The information below should be consulted when creating the credential(s).
- Azure Resource Manager Credential (provider=azure_rm) which has the following permissions:
Microsoft.Capacity/reservations/read
The Provider-Specific Credentials page in the docs has detailed instructions for setting up Credentials for the most common providers.
- Azure
This policy template does not incur any cloud costs.