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Azure Carbon Skimmer

Professional PowerShell script that harvests carbon emissions data from Azure subscriptions like a sustainability chef gathering the finest ingredients. Generate CSV reports optimized for dashboard consumption.

⏱️ Prep Time:Perfect soufflé timing
🧩 Difficulty:Intermediate

🔍 What It Does

  • 🌍 Multi-subscription carbon data collection across your entire Azure estate
  • 📊 Five report types: from detailed line items to executive summaries
  • 🔐 Enterprise authentication: Service Principal, Azure CLI, and PowerShell contexts
  • ⚡ Intelligent rate limiting and concurrent processing with API respect
  • 📈 CSV export optimized for Power BI, Tableau, and custom dashboards
  • 🛡️ Comprehensive error handling with detailed troubleshooting guidance
  • 📅 Flexible date ranges with automatic data availability validation
  • 🔄 Pagination support for complete dataset retrieval in large environments

⚙️ Requirements Checklist

  • ✅ PowerShell 5.1+ (Windows PowerShell or PowerShell Core)
  • ✅ Azure authentication: CLI, PowerShell module, or Service Principal
  • ✅ Carbon Optimization Reader role on target Azure subscriptions
  • ✅ Internet connectivity to Azure Management API endpoints
  • ✅ Understanding that carbon data has 19+ day processing delay

📌 Talk Nerdy Tip:

Start with a single subscription and OverallSummaryReport to test authentication and service availability before scaling to enterprise-wide carbon data collection. Like testing a new recipe with a small portion first. 👨‍🍳

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