We are excited to announce that customers can now take advantage of new Copilot in Azure (Public Preview) capabilities for Storage services. Copilot in Azure is an intelligent assistant designed to help you design, operate, optimize and troubleshoot your Azure environment. With the new Storage capabilities, Copilot in Azure can analyze your storage services metadata and logs to streamline and enhance tasks such as building cloud solutions, managing, operating, supporting, and troubleshooting cloud applications in Azure Storage.  

Troubleshooting Disk Performance with Copilot in Azure 

Available now in Public Preview 

Azure offers a rich variety of Disk metrics, providing insights into the performance of your Virtual Machine (VM) and Disk. These metrics help you diagnose performance issues when your application requires higher performance than what you have configured for the VM and Disks. Whether you are looking to set up and validate a new environment in Azure, or are facing issues with your existing set-up, Copilot further enhances your experience by analyzing these metrics to troubleshoot performance issues on-behalf of you, along with providing guided recommendations for optimizing the VM and disks performance to improve the experience for your application. 

To troubleshoot performance issues with Copilot in Azure, navigate to Copilot in the Azure Portal and enter a prompt related to VM-Disk performance, such as “Why is my Disk slow?”. Copilot will then ask you to specify the VM and Disk(s) experiencing performance issues, along with the relevant time period. Using this information, you can use Copilot to analyze your current VM-Disk configuration and performance metrics to identify whether your application is experiencing slowness due to reaching the configured performance limits for the VM or Disk. It will then provide a summary of the analysis and a set of recommended actions to resolve your performance issue, which you can apply directly in the Portal through Copilot’s guided recommendations. By leveraging the power of Copilot, you can efficiently diagnose and address performance issues within your Azure Disks environment.    

For more information on the Disk Performance Copilot capability, refer to the Public Documentation.

Managing Storage Lifecycle Management with Copilot in Azure 

Available now in Public Preview 

With Copilot in Azure, we're providing a more efficient way to manage and optimize your storage costs. Copilot in Azure allows you to save on costs by tiering blobs that haven't been accessed or modified for a while. In some cases, you might even decide to delete those blobs. With Copilot in Azure, you can simply automate lifecycle management (LCM) rule authoring, enabling you to perform bulk actions on Storage accounts through a natural language interface. This means no more manual rule creation or risk of misconfiguration! 

To use this capability, simply enter a prompt related to cost management, such as “Help me reduce my storage account costs” or “I want to lower my storage costs.” Copilot will then guide you through authoring an LCM rule to help you achieve your goals. 

For more information on the Storage Lifecycle Management Copilot capability, refer to the Public Documentation.

Troubleshoot File Sync errors with Copilot in Azure 

Available now in Public Preview 

With Copilot in Azure, you can now quickly troubleshoot and resolve common Azure File Sync issues, such as network misconfiguration, incorrect RBAC permissions, or accidental file share deletions. Copilot in Azure detects errors and misconfigurations, provides exact steps to fix them, and can act on your behalf to resolve common errors.  

To use this capability, simply enter a prompt related to File Sync such as “Why are my files not syncing?” or “Help me troubleshoot error 0x80C83096.”  

With the File Sync errors troubleshooting skill, Copilot in Azure acts as your intelligent assistant to keep your File Sync environment running smoothly. This capability not only saves you time by cutting down on troubleshooting efforts but also empowers you to resolve issues confidently and independently.  

For more information on the Files Sync Copilot capability, refer to the Public Documentation.