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Carbon Optimization

Query: Carbon emissions

This Azure Resource Graph (ARG) query identifies resources within your Azure environment that have recommendations for reducing carbon emissions, based on Azure Advisor recommendations.

Description

This query surfaces Azure resources with recommendations from Azure Advisor for optimizing carbon emissions. It highlights potential carbon savings and provides insights into how these recommendations can be implemented to reduce the carbon footprint of your cloud infrastructure.

Query

advisorresources
| where tolower(type) == "microsoft.advisor/recommendations"
| extend RecommendationTypeId = tostring(properties.recommendationTypeId)
| where RecommendationTypeId in ("94aea435-ef39-493f-a547-8408092c22a7", "e10b1381-5f0a-47ff-8c7b-37bd13d7c974")
| extend properties = parse_json(properties)
| project
    subscriptionId,
    resourceGroup,
    ResourceId = properties.resourceMetadata.resourceId,
    ResourceType = tostring(properties.impactedField),
    shortDescription = properties.shortDescription.problem,
    recommendationType = properties.extendedProperties.recommendationType,
    recommendationMessage = properties.extendedProperties.recommendationMessage,
    PotentialMonthlyCarbonEmissions = properties.extendedProperties.PotentialMonthlyCarbonEmissions,
    PotentialMonthlyCarbonSavings = toreal(properties.extendedProperties.PotentialMonthlyCarbonSavings),
    properties

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