FinOps workbooks are Azure workbooks that provide a series of tools to help engineers perform targeted FinOps tasks, modeled after the Well-Architected Framework guidance.
What's new in January 2026v13
In January, the optimization workbook fixed SQL Managed Instance vCores displaying incorrect values.
Review Azure Advisor cost, security, and reliability recommendations from a central engineering hub.
ðĪ Identify idle resources
Identify idle and unused resources to reduce waste.
ð Maximize commitments
Monitor reservation and savings plan usage across subscriptions.
âïļ Expand Hybrid Benefit
Identify opportunities to use Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows, Linux, and SQL Server.
ð§Ū Review resource inventory
Summarize and review resource inventory across multiple areas.
ðŠĶ Review retired services
Review retired services and impacted resources.
âïļ Monitor policy compliance
Review Azure Policy assignments and compliance status per subscription.
Deploy FinOps workbooks
FinOps workbooks require the Contributor role or a role with both Microsoft.Resources/deployments/validate/action and Microsoft.Resources/deployments/write permissions for ARM template deployments, Workbook Contributor role to save changes, and Reader on all subscriptions you want to monitor.
If you only have Reader access, you can download the workbook JSON files from the finops-workbooks.zip package available in the latest release, and then import them directly into Azure Monitor Workbooks.