FinOps alerts

📝 Scenario

As a FinOps practitioner, I need to get notified when there are cost optimization opportunities in order to keep my workloads running efficiently

🚀 Goal

Create a logic app to notify stakeholders when there are cost optimization opportunities.

📋 Tasks

Tasks for initial release

• TODO: Add tasks required for each sub-release
• Convert ARM Template into BICEP
• Simplify Deployment Steps
• Resolve email notification URL bug
• Create docs/_automation/waste-reduction-logic-app/README.md
• Update the changelog
• Discuss the name (FinOps Alert)
• Create additional variable for including / excluding subscriptions
• Insert MI into template
• Update the queries to be tenant level
• Remove table if query is empty and add a message instead

Tasks for future releases

• Test standard Logic App Connection
• Manageability of App
• Automated Test?
• Add standard FTK tags
• Update email approach (summary of numbers and points to workbook)
• Find the useful properties that are viewed in the portal
• Don’t send an email if all query result to nothing
• Associate cost with resources
• Associate number of resources per recommendations

🙋‍♀️ Ask for the community

We'd love to get your feedback! Please leave any questions, comments, or change requests in the release discussions at the bottom of each task list above. We'll try to close each of those out before we finalize the release.