How do I schedule an AppPool refresh for an Azure Web-App service?

Question

We have a website running as a web-app service on Azure. Our CM environment stalls and needs restarted periodically.

While we investigate the cause of this, I'd like to set the application pool to refresh overnight. I can't find anything in the portal to indicate how or where this is done. Can anyone help?

Topminnow

Answer 1

The Kudu service allows you to setup auto healing based on rules for memory, requests, or status code. To get to the dashboard navigate to https://[Your Azure App Name].scm.azurewebsites.net and then click on Tools -> Support and then turn on Autoheal, click Update and then optionally add any rules that make sense.

For more details, check out the blog post Auto Heal your Azure Web App.

Guadalquivir

Answer 2

You can assign a webjob to your service where you can upload a zipped .bat file and schedule it to run using a cron job

I THINK something like this should do it

azure webapp restart --resource-group xxx --name xxx

But, don't really want to mess about too much with our live environment.

The Kudu solution looks like the one we are going to go with. But, not until we take a good look at the perfomance/analytics. We definitely have a memory leak on the go somewhere

Topminnow