AzureSaveMoney Module How-To
In this post I will show how to use the AzureSaveMoney PowerShell module; https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AzureSaveMoney to reduce the cost and clutter of your Azure subscriptions.
The AzureSaveMoney PowerShell module can report on and clean up the following resources:
Network Interfaces
Public IP Addresses
Network Security Groups
Empty Resource Groups
Old Resource Group Deployments
Classic Alerts on resource no longer available
Log Alerts on resource no longer available
Unused Alert Action Groups
Virtual Networks without subnets
Unused Route Tables
Unused Managed Disks
Empty AAD Groups
Disabled Logic Apps
Old disk snapshots
Load balancers with no backend pool
Disabled Traffic Manager profiles
Traffic Manager profiles with no endpoints
Unconnected Virtual Network Gateways
Expired Webhooks
To start using the module and start saving money install the module using the following PowerShell command.
Install-Module -Name AzureSaveMoney
After installing you may need to restart your PowerShell window or run the following to import the module to your current session.
Import-Module AzureSaveMoney
After the module is loaded you can start using the commands to list the resources the module can clean up. In most commands either the subscription or the tenant id is required. An easy way to get that information to copy in the commands is to use the following command to list the current subscription information.
Get-AzureRmSubscription
Note: To query the resources, the module will need permissions to all of the resources being queried. You will receive errors if your account does not have the correct permissions to get the data from Azure.
The quickest way to generate a report on all of the resources that the module can clean up is to run the following command which will run all of the checks and output the results to the window. Some commands have other optional parameters, if none are added the defaults will be used.
Get-AzSMAllResources -Subscription 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -Tenant 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Note: All commands have full PowerShell help support. To view the help for the previous command would be.
Get-Help Get-AzSMAllResources -full
Most of the commands can be piped to remove the resources that are found. To delete all of the unused Network Security Groups by the module use the following command.
Get-AzSMUnusedNSGs -Subscription 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 | Remove-AzureRmNetworkSecurityGroup
For more information on usage of the module see the readme; https://itoleck.visualstudio.com/AzureSaveMoney