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Copper Contributor

Jun 12, 2018

Adding Alerts to shutdown an Azure Virtual Machine

Hi all, I'm running a lab in Azure for training purposes. Now using a DevTest Lab I could schedule a shutdown period to turn off a VM during off hours but I would like to be more granular and ha...

Copper Contributor

Jul 03, 2018

Hi Eric,

As i understand you don't want to use all your cred's for waiting for the auto shutdown.

With Azure Automation it's possible to do what you want. If i understand you correct.
It's in preview now and her you got a link for it. So if you create rules based on CPU, Memory, Disk or so on. You can possible create some Automation on what you want to do.
I will look in to it my self as well.
Here you got a link for preview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-solution-vm-management

Eric Lacroix

Copper Contributor

Jul 03, 2018

Hi Thomas,

True, I don't want to wait for auto shutdown if I'm not using the VM.. Auto shutdown is a great feature but I still feel I'm wasting money on VM time not being used.

Thank you for your reply and link. This is exactly what I was looking for! :)