Intelligent Advisor is a cloud architecture governance platform that provides automated inspections and optimization suggestions. Based on the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework methodology and the best practices of Alibaba Cloud technical account managers (TAMs), Intelligent Advisor provides various preset inspection rules to detect risks and provide solutions. In addition, Intelligent Advisor provides specific inspection orchestration in multiple scenarios such as stability, cost optimization, and capacity usage, improving user experience in using Alibaba Cloud services.
Benefits
Compatibility
Intelligent Advisor is compatible with more than 20 common cloud services, supports nearly 300 risk inspection rules, and constantly expands its capabilities, meeting the requirements for integrated risk detection.
In-depth inspection
Intelligent Advisor provides detection for special scenarios, such as stability, cost, and usage, and deeply explores risks to meet the requirements for in-depth optimization in special scenarios.
Support for multiple accounts
Intelligent Advisor allows you to view inspection reports between multiple Alibaba Cloud accounts.
Best Practices
Intelligent Advisor was released based on the best practices of Alibaba Cloud TAMs and continues to improve with customer service experience of Alibaba Cloud.
Features
Feature module | Module description | Feature | Details |
General inspection | Intelligent Advisor provides comprehensive architecture inspection. It scans at-risk resources based on specified inspection rules and generates results and alerts. | Overview | Based on the latest statistics of multidimensional inspection results, Intelligent Advisor provides information such as health scores, risk categories, risk to-do list, and historical overview. This way, you can quickly learn about the latest inspection information and resolve risks in a centralized manner. |
Multidimensional inspection | According to the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework methodology, Intelligent Advisor provides risk inspection from five dimensions including security compliance, performance and efficiency, business stability, cost optimization, and service restrictions for more than 20 types of services, and covering more than 300 rules. | ||
Inspection report | You can export inspection reports for routine O&M and subscribe to reports. This way, you can obtain information about risks in a timely manner. | ||
Risk operations | Intelligent Advisor provides the risk to-do list and inspection whitelist configuration features for you to detect and track risks, facilitating risk operations and management. | ||
Dedicated governance | Intelligent Advisor provides detection for special scenarios, such as stability, cost, and usage, and deeply explores risks to meet the requirements for in-depth optimization in special scenarios. | Stability inspection | Based on Alibaba Cloud stability events, you can perform special risk inspection and analysis in stability scenarios for various services. The inspection results can be displayed on a timeline, facilitating backtracking analysis on historical stability. |
Cost optimization | Intelligent Advisor analyzes whether costs can be optimized based on resource utilization, idle resources, resource billing methods, and number of resource iterations, reducing your costs. | ||
Usage analysis | Intelligent Advisor collects and analyzes the usage of core metrics of various services within a specified time range, and displays load statistics based on thresholds to help refine and evaluate resource usage. This provides usage analysis support for improving resource utilization and stability. | ||
Resources and historical risks | Intelligent Advisor synchronizes and displays resources and displays historical risks. This way, you can view and manage resource information and track historical risks. | My resources | Intelligent Advisor synchronizes and displays resources of the current account. You can view the basic information and status of resources. You can also go to the related console to manage resources in a fine-grained manner. |
Historical risks | Intelligent Advisor allows you to query and export historical inspection records. On this page, you can trace and review historical risks. | ||
Service linkage | Intelligent Advisor provides various service linkage capabilities. You can purchase related services to use more features. | Support plan | You can authorize Alibaba Cloud TAMs to use Intelligent Advisor to obtain further cloud resource solutions and custom optimization suggestions. |
Architecture consulting | You can use Intelligent Advisor and Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework consulting services to obtain complete, comprehensive, and custom architecture consulting suggestions and optimization solutions. |