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Azure automation feature, improvements and bugs
A few improvements I would love to see in Azure Automation are around operability rather than only authoring.
The biggest wins would be stronger job diagnostics, easier module/runtime pinning, clearer Hybrid Runbook Worker health, and first-class dependency handling between runbooks. When automation becomes part of production operations, teams need to answer questions quickly: what changed, which identity ran it, which worker executed it, what module version loaded, and why did this step retry or fail?
I would also like better native integration with managed identity and event-driven patterns, so teams do not need to glue together webhooks, schedules, alerts, and runbooks manually for common workflows. Azure Automation is still very useful, but the day-2 operations story could be smoother.