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--- title: Example prompts for Azure Copilot description: View example prompts that you can try out with Azure Copilot. ms.date: 11/21/2025 ms.topic: concept-article ms.service: copilot-for-azure ms.author: jenhayes author: JnHs # Customer intent: "As an Azure user, I want to experiment with prompts for Copilot so that I can effectively manage and optimize my Azure environment." --- # Example prompts for Azure Copilot Prompts are how you can interact with Azure Copilot to get help working with your Azure environment. This article shows a list of skills and example prompts that you can try out to see how Azure Copilot can help with different scenarios and Azure services. [!INCLUDE [scenario-note](includes/scenario-note.md)] To learn more about the ways that you can use Azure Copilot, see [Capabilities of Azure Copilot](capabilities.md). For tips on creating your own prompts, see [Write effective prompts for Azure Copilot](write-effective-prompts.md). ## Prompt library To get started with Azure Copilot, try a few prompts from this list. Feel free to experiment and make changes, or create your own prompts based on your current tasks and interests. | Scenario | Outcome | Example prompt to try | |----------|-------------------|-----------------------| | [Azure portal](capabilities.md#manage-portal-settings) | Changes Azure portal theme. | "Change my theme to dark mode." | | [Learn](capabilities.md#get-information) | Explains documentation and purposes of Azure services. | "What are the benefits and applications of Azure API Management?" | | [Learn](capabilities.md#get-information) | Explains how to implement Azure services. | "How can I process real-time events in my application with Azure?" | | [Learn](capabilities.md#get-information) | Outlines steps for performing tasks. | "Outline steps to secure Azure Blob Storage with private endpoints and Azure Private Link." | | [Learn](capabilities.md#get-information) | Generates code from documentation. | "How to upload a storage container with JavaScript." | | [Learn](capabilities.md#get-information) | Creates guides from multiple documentation sources. | "I want to use Azure functions to build an OpenAI application." | | [Azure Resource Graph](get-information-resource-graph.md) | Lists the number of critical alerts. | "How many critical alerts do I have?" | | [Azure Resource Graph](get-information-resource-graph.md) | Retrieves live resource information. | "Which VMs are running right now? Please restart them." | | [Azure Resource Graph](get-information-resource-graph.md) | Identifies states of resources. | "Which resources are noncompliant?" | | [Azure Resource Graph](get-information-resource-graph.md) | Lists resources created or modified in the last 24 hours. | "List resources that have been created or modified in the last 24 hours." | | [Cost Management](analyze-cost-management.md) | Compares the current month's cost to the previous month's cost. | "How does our cost this month compare to last month's." | | [Cost Management](analyze-cost-management.md) | Forecasts cost for the next three months. | "Forecast my cost for the next three months." | | [Cost Management](analyze-cost-management.md) | Shows Azure credits balance. | "What's our Azure credits balance?" | | [Azure CLI](generate-cli-scripts.md) | Generates a cheatsheet for managing resources with CLI. | "Generate a cheatsheet for managing VMs with CLI." | | [Azure CLI](generate-cli-scripts.md) | Lists all resources of a certain kind using Azure CLI. | "How do I list all my VMs using Azure CLI?" | | [Azure CLI](generate-cli-scripts.md) | Creates resources with CLI. | "Create a virtual network with two subnets using the address space of 10.0.0.0/16 using az cli." | | [Azure CLI](generate-cli-scripts.md) | Deploys resources with CLI. | "I want to use Azure CLI to deploy and manage AKS using a private service endpoint." | | [PowerShell](generate-powershell-scripts.md) | Create resources with PowerShell. | "How can I create a new resource group using PowerShell?" | | [PowerShell](generate-powershell-scripts.md) | Deploy multiple resources with PowerShell. | "Help me write a PS script where after creating VM, deploy an AKS cluster on it." | | [PowerShell](generate-powershell-scripts.md) | Manage resources with PowerShell. | "How to back up an Azure SQL single database to an Azure storage container using Azure PowerShell?" | | [Deploy workload templates](deploy-workload-templates.md) | Provides a detailed guide on deploying an AKS cluster on Azure. | "Provide me with a detailed guide on deploying an AKS cluster on Azure." | | [Deploy workload templates](deploy-workload-templates.md) | Explains steps to create a Linux VM on Azure and SSH into it. | "What are the steps to create a Linux VM on Azure and how do I SSH into it?" | | [Azure Monitor](get-monitoring-information.md) | Detects anomalies in a specific resource. | "Is there any anomaly in my AKS resource?" | | [Azure Monitor](get-monitoring-information.md) | Performs root cause analysis. | "Why is this resource not working properly?" | | [Azure Monitor](get-monitoring-information.md) | Provides charts on platform metrics for a specific resource. | "Give me a chart of OS disk latency statistics for the last week." | | [Azure Monitor](get-monitoring-information.md) | Queries logs using natural language | "Show me container logs that include word 'error' for the last day for namespace 'xyz'." | | [Azure Monitor](get-monitoring-information.md) | Runs an investigation on a specific resource. | "Had an alert in my HCI at 8 am this morning, run an anomaly investigation for me." | | [Azure Monitor](get-monitoring-information.md) | Lists alerts using natural language. | "Show me all alerts triggered during the last 24 hours." | | [Azure Monitor](get-monitoring-information.md) | Provides a summary of alerts, including the number of critical alerts. | "Tell me more about these alerts. How many critical alerts are there?" | | [Azure Networking](network-management.md) | Network planning and troubleshooting connectivity issues |"Why can't my VM connect to the internet?" | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Analyzes performance issues with an app. | "Troubleshoot performance issues with my app." | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Diagnoses high CPU usage issues. | "It seems like there's a high CPU issue with my web app." | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Enables auto heal for web apps. | "Enable auto heal on my web app." | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Explains an error related to deployed web apps. | "What does this error mean for my Azure web app?" | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Provides assistance with slow-running app code. | "Why is my web app slow?" | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Summarizes diagnostics. | "Give me a summary of these diagnostics." | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Takes a memory dump of the app. | "Take a memory dump." | | [Azure App Service](troubleshoot-app-service.md) | Tracks uptime and downtime of a web app. | "Can I track uptime and downtime of my web app over a specific time period?" | | [Azure Kubernetes Service](work-aks-clusters.md) | Adds the user's IP address to the allowlist. | "Add my IP address to the allowlist of my AKS cluster's network policies." | | [Azure Kubernetes Service](work-aks-clusters.md) | Configures AKS backups. | "Configure AKS backup." | | [Azure Kubernetes Service](work-aks-clusters.md) | Scales the number of replicas of a deployment. | "Scale the number of replicas of my deployment my-deployment to 5." | | [Azure Kubernetes Service](work-aks-clusters.md) | Updates the authorized IP ranges. | "Update my AKS cluster's authorized IP ranges." | | [Azure Kubernetes Service](work-aks-clusters.md) | Shows existing backups. | "I want to view the backups on my AKS cluster." | | [Azure Kubernetes Service](work-aks-clusters.md) | Manages the backup extension. | "Manage backup extension on my AKS cluster." | | [Azure Kubernetes Service](work-aks-clusters.md) | Upgrades the AKS pricing tier. | "Upgrade AKS cluster pricing tier to Standard." | | [Azure SQL Databases](https://aka.ms/sqlcopilot) | Use natural language to manage Azure SQL Databases | "I want to automate Azure SQL Database scaling based on performance metrics using Azure Functions." | | [Azure Storage](improve-storage-accounts.md) | Checks if a storage account follows security best practices. | "Does this storage account follow security best practices?" | | [Azure Storage](improve-storage-accounts.md) | Provides recommendations to make a storage account more secure. | "How can I make this storage account more secure?" | | [Azure Storage](improve-storage-accounts.md) | Checks for vulnerabilities in a storage account. | "Is this storage account vulnerable?" | | [Azure Storage](improve-storage-accounts.md) | Prevents deletion of a storage account. | "How can I prevent this storage account from being deleted?" | | [Azure Storage](improve-storage-accounts.md) | Protects data from loss or theft. | "How do I protect this storage account's data from data loss or theft?" | | [Azure Virtual Machines](deploy-vms-effectively.md) | Creates a cost-efficient virtual machine configuration. | "Help me create a cost-efficient virtual machine." | | [Execute commands](capabilities.md)| Restarts VMs with the tag 'env' | "Restart my VMs that have the tag 'env'" | | [Service health](understand-service-health.md) | Checks for any outage impacting the user. | "Is there any outage impacting me?" | ## Next steps - Learn more about [things you can do with Azure Copilot](capabilities.md). - Get tips on [writing effective prompts](write-effective-prompts.md) for Azure Copilot. - Review our [Responsible AI FAQ for Azure Copilot](responsible-ai-faq.md).