Profiling
Profiling is the process we refer to in which CloudDIET analyzes your Azure Subscriptions(s). This occurs when you first add your Azure Subsccription(s) in CloudDIET, and then on a continuous daily basis thereafter.
Profiling Activities
CloudDIET profiling activities are broken down into the following categories:
Billing: CloudDIET reviews your Azure Billing to understand the actual spend of your Azure resources so that costs are inclusive of any discounting, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances.
Usage Metrics: CloudDIET reviews your Azure Monitor Metrics to understand how resources are being utilized. For example, CloudDIET can see that an Azure Storage Account has 4TB of data, but does not have access to the actual data.
Resource Configuration: CloudDIET reviews how Azure resources are configured at the control plane level. For example, CloudDIET can see that an Azure Storage Account is configured to use Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), the primary Azure region is East US, and when it was created, but does not have access to the actual data.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take CloudDIET to produce results?
When a Subscription is first added, it can take CloudDIET anywhere from a few minutes to several hours to start displaying data. The actual duration is dependent on the amount of resources in the Azure Subscription.
Savings Opportunities can take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple weeks to be discovered. Because it's a new Subscription, CloudDIET must build a profile and baseline of configuration, utilization, and cost trends for the resources. While some savings opportunities can be surfaced immediately, many savings opportunities require days or weeks to understand the utilization.
How often does CloudDIET profiling happen?
Profiling occurs on at least a daily basis to understand changes, usage over time, and trends. Savings Opportunities can be discovered and surfaced at any point in time throughout the day.
Does CloudDIET impact my Azure bill?
No, CloudDIET does not incur any costs on your Azure Subscription(s).
Can CloudDIET impact my Azure services?
No, CloudDIET does not interact with the Azure resources themselves. The profiler works at the Azure control plane level and leverages the Azure Resource Manager API's. There is no performance impact or potential of impact associated with CloudDIET.
Examples of what CloudDIET can access
Below are some examples of the types of data CloudDIET can and can not access. This is not to say that CloudDIET views all metrics and resource configurations, but rather that CloudDIET does not have the permissions and ability to to access data plane data.
| Service | Can access | Can NOT access |
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| Azure SQL |
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| Azure Storage |
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