Workload fleet

Route: /workloads

Purpose

The fleet cockpit provides a portfolio view of active workloads. Use it to identify unknown or low-health workloads, see estate composition, compare environment and criticality, and open a workload for deeper analysis. Workload fleet cockpit showing health and resource composition

When to use it

  • Daily or weekly fleet triage.
  • Finding workloads that have never been analyzed.
  • Prioritizing production/critical workloads with coverage or retirement risks.
  • Starting Autopilot, manual workload creation, merge, grouping, or overlap analysis.

Prerequisites and data sources

Prerequisites and permissions

  • workloads.read to view the fleet and profiles.
  • workloads.write to create, edit, merge, delete, or group workloads.
  • Existing workloads, or a readable Azure connection for discovery.
  • Prior feature scans for meaningful health and risk values.

Tabs and actions

Freshness and scope behavior

Workflow overview

Workflow

  1. Open /workloads.
  2. Review fleet composition, environment-by-criticality distribution, health bands, and risk indicators.
  3. Filter or sort to place critical, production, unknown, or poor-health workloads first.
  4. Open a workload card or row to inspect its detail.
  5. For Not analyzed, run analysis from workload detail rather than assuming failure.
  6. Use Autopilot to discover missing application boundaries.
  7. Open Overlaps when resource ownership is ambiguous, or Groups to compare related environments.
  8. Launch Mission Control for a coordinated multi-system sweep.

Safety and lifecycle

  • Editing membership changes the scope used by downstream analyses.
  • Merge moves source workloads to Trash and has no dedicated undo; review members and downstream links first.
  • Normal delete is soft-delete and can be restored. Purge and empty-trash are permanent.
  • Trashed workloads are detached from groups and excluded by downstream active-workload consumers.
  • Fleet pages read cached profiles and should not be mistaken for a live Azure scan.

Interpretation of results

Interpret fleet health

A workload profile combines available monitoring, telemetry, backup/DR, performance, ownership, policy, and tag signals. The overall score reweights only the signals that are present.

Band Score Meaning
Good 80–100 Available signals are broadly healthy; inspect freshness and any remaining risks
Warning 50–79 Material gaps exist and should be planned for remediation
Poor 0–49 Available signals indicate significant gaps or failures
Not analyzed No score No usable signals have been computed; this is unknown, not zero

Because the score is normalized over present signals, two workloads with different signal coverage are not always directly comparable. Open detail and check freshness and component scores.

Exports, history, scheduling, and integrations

No dedicated export, history, scheduling, or integration controls are documented for this feature page.

Safety and limitations

Troubleshooting

Symptom Resolution
Fleet is empty Run Autopilot or create a workload; verify workloads.read
Workload says Not analyzed Open it and run Analyze
Score changed sharply Compare component freshness and determine which newly available signal changed normalization
Resource count is stale Refresh an Autopilot-origin workload or edit its nodes
A deleted workload vanished from a group Restore it; trashed workloads are intentionally detached
Merge result is unexpected Inspect the merged workload and source entries in Trash before any permanent purge

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