Pipeline: Detect & correct Compute virtual machines with low utilization

Detect & correct Compute virtual machines with low utilization

Overview

Azure Compute virtual machines with low utilization should be reviewed for either down-sizing or stopping if no longer required in order to reduce running costs.

This pipeline identifies Compute virtual machines with low utilization and either sends notifications or attempts predefined corrective actions.

Getting Started

This control will work out-of-the-box with some sensible defaults (configurable via variables).

You should be able to simply run the following command in your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run detect_and_correct_compute_virtual_machines_with_low_utilization

By default, Flowpipe runs in wizard mode and prompts directly in the terminal for a decision on the action(s) to take for each detected resource.

However, you can run Flowpipe in server mode with external integrations, allowing it to prompt for input via http, slack, teams, etc.

Alternatively, you can choose to configure and run in other modes:

Notify: Provides detections without taking any corrective action.
Automatic: Performs corrective actions automatically without user intervention.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_thrifty.pipeline.detect_and_correct_compute_virtual_machines_with_low_utilization

Use this pipeline

To call this pipeline from your pipeline, use a step:

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
  pipeline = azure_thrifty.pipeline.detect_and_correct_compute_virtual_machines_with_low_utilization  
}

Params

Name	Type	Required	Description	Default
database	connection.steampipe	Yes	Database connection string.	`connection.steampipe.default`
notifier	notifier	Yes	The name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.	`notifier.default`
notification_level	string `info`, `verbose`, `error`	Yes	The verbosity level of notification messages to send.	`info`
approvers	list(notifier)	Yes	List of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.	`notifier.default`
default_action	string `notify`, `skip`, `stop_virtual_machine`, `downgrade_instance_type`	Yes	The default action to use for the detected item, used if no input is provided.	`notify`
enabled_actions	list(string) `skip`, `stop_virtual_machine`, `downgrade_instance_type`	Yes	The list of enabled actions to provide to approvers for selection.	`[ "skip", "stop_virtual_machine", "downgrade_instance_type" ]`

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.