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Azure VM High CPU, Upsize Recommendation

The VM is running at its ceiling, so requests queue and latency climbs before anything reports an outright failure.

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Azureprovider
Mediumseverity
Advisorywhere it shows up
Guidedfix, after a review

Azure

Found, explained, fixed.

What we would change and why, with no savings claim and no policy behind it.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Azure, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Increase VM size.

03

Fix

After a guided review, where you confirm the change, ZopNight stops it, resizes it to the recommended tier, and starts it again, then checks the change took.

Applies to
Virtual Machines on Azure
The fix, by hand
  1. Review 14-day CPU + memory metrics in Monitor → Metrics (memory requires the Azure Monitor Agent).
  2. Identify the next larger SKU within the same family, or pivot to a memory-optimized family (Esv5, Edsv5) if the bottleneck is memory.
  3. If a reservation covers the current size, exchange it to the new size first to avoid double-paying.
  4. Stop (deallocate) the resource → Size → pick the target SKU → Resize → Start.
  5. Validate latency, error rate, and resource utilisation for 48 hours.
  6. If the larger size still saturates, escalate to a different VM family rather than continuing to step up sizes.

ZopNight does this for you after a guided review.

Category
Performance. A measured bottleneck worth clearing: throttled operations, undersized tiers, a workload near its limit.
Where it appears
The Advisory tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-262
Full reference

Azure VM High CPU -- Upsize Recommendation

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