Error! Logic App Standard Zip Deploy Creates Duplicate local.settings.json

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Error! Logic App Standard Zip Deploy Creates Duplicate local.settings.json

Michael Liben 241

This began yesterday, 01-Apr-2025. When we zip deploy our logic app standard workflows the Logic App stops working and we see Error in the Runtime version on the overview page. We tried restarting but error persisted. Not seeing anything obvious, we download the app content, opened up the zip file and immediately noticed two files named local.setting.json. One had the timestamp comparable to the other files and the other was four hours in the future, obviously using GMT which is currently four hours in the future.

Since we had both files in out downloaded zip and knew we could deploy, we went to the storage account hosting the web site and deleted the local.settings.json file. We restarted the Logic App and voila, it began working again.
We've been doing zip deploys for months and we first observed this behavior yesterday. We were able to repeat in another environment today with the same 'fix.'

Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-02T19:24:06.17+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,

Thanks for reaching out, could you please follow this approach, before deploying your Logic App to Azure, manually remove the local.settings.json file from the deployment package. This ensures that the file is not included in the deployment and prevents duplication.

Also, if you have any secrets in your configuration, instead of storing secrets directly in the local.settings.json file, use environment variables. This approach helps manage secrets securely and avoids the need to include them in the deployment package.

After doing this could you please share the update so that we will proceed accordingly and if you have any further concerns, please feel free to drop them here.
Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-03T21:39:44.58+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,

Just checking to see if the information provided above helps you understand better. If you have any further concerns, please feel free to reach out to us.
Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-04T22:01:48.4266667+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,
We wanted to follow up on the issue you encountered. Please let us know if it's resolved or if you need further assistance.
Michael Liben 241 Reputation points

2025-04-08T11:09:45.8+00:00

Sorry for slow response. Took a long weekend for holiday.
As I I stated in original problem, we discovered removing local.settings.json once deployed and then restarting was a workaround. Yesterday, before reading your reply, I performed another deploy and it worked without a hitch. However, I will follow your advice for future deploys and remove the local.settings.json from the deployment zip. Fortunately, we did not use the local.settings.json file to store any information.

Thanks for the help!

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Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-02T19:24:06.17+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,

Thanks for reaching out, could you please follow this approach, before deploying your Logic App to Azure, manually remove the local.settings.json file from the deployment package. This ensures that the file is not included in the deployment and prevents duplication.

Also, if you have any secrets in your configuration, instead of storing secrets directly in the local.settings.json file, use environment variables. This approach helps manage secrets securely and avoids the need to include them in the deployment package.

After doing this could you please share the update so that we will proceed accordingly and if you have any further concerns, please feel free to drop them here.
Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-03T21:39:44.58+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,

Just checking to see if the information provided above helps you understand better. If you have any further concerns, please feel free to reach out to us.
Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-04T22:01:48.4266667+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,
We wanted to follow up on the issue you encountered. Please let us know if it's resolved or if you need further assistance.
Michael Liben 241 Reputation points

2025-04-08T11:09:45.8+00:00

Sorry for slow response. Took a long weekend for holiday.
As I I stated in original problem, we discovered removing local.settings.json once deployed and then restarting was a workaround. Yesterday, before reading your reply, I performed another deploy and it worked without a hitch. However, I will follow your advice for future deploys and remove the local.settings.json from the deployment zip. Fortunately, we did not use the local.settings.json file to store any information.

Thanks for the help!

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@Michael Liben ,

I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to accept the answer .

Issue: Error! Logic App Standard Zip Deploy Creates Duplicate local.settings.json

Solution/Work Around Followed:

I appreciate you confirming that removing the local.settings.json file post-deployment and restarting the Logic App worked as a temporary workaround. I'm glad to hear that your most recent deployment went smoothly without any issues.

Moving forward, as discussed, manually excluding the local.settings.json file from the deployment package before performing a zip deploy is a recommended practice. This will help prevent unexpected runtime errors due to file duplication. Additionally, since you're not storing any secrets in the local.settings.json, this makes your deployment process even more streamlined and secure.

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have any further queries.

Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-09T20:44:31.88+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,
This is just a follow-up to check if you had a chance to review the previous message, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to drop them here.
Loknathsatyasaivarma Mahali 1,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-10T21:55:12.95+00:00

Hello Michael Liben,

We wanted to follow up regarding the issue you recently encountered. As we haven't heard back from you, we wanted to ensure that everything is resolved.

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