Cannot delete azure ai search service on portal

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Cannot delete azure ai search service on portal

Christian Herzog 20

I want to delete an azurea ai search service, but it fails and continues to incur costs on my sponsored subscription. Copilot and help sites didn't provide any useful solution.

I've just created that for some testing purpose. There is no index, indexer, skillset, datasource in it. I do have all the necessary permissions to delete the service, but it still doesn't work.

What now?

Siva Nair 2,420 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-07T14:23:31.24+00:00
Hi Christian Herzog,

Can you send me the full error message after Error: in above screenshot, that will help us to dip down and find the solution, and meanwhile

Can you run the CLI command and try to delete

az search service delete \ --name srch-skilltest-za4uh \ --resource-group <your-resource-group-name> \ --yes

If That Fails: Use Azure REST API (via CLI)

az rest --method delete \ --url "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/<your-subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<your-resource-group-name>/providers/Microsoft.Search/searchServices/srch-skilltest-za4uh?api-version=2023-11-01"

Please change the subscription ID and your group name

If you have any further assistant, do let me know.
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-07T14:30:44.5133333+00:00

Hi Siva,

Here it is:

(ConflictError) Unable to delete Search Service: '<search-service-name>'. LockedSPLResourceFound: Unable to verify management locks on Resource '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/rg-skilltest/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<app-name>'. If you still want to delete the search service, manually delete the SPL resource first and try again. RequestId: 668d14c8-a1f5-4329-a37c-c636f847416e

Code: ConflictError

Message: Unable to delete Search Service: 'srch-skilltest-za4uh'. LockedSPLResourceFound: Unable to verify management locks on Resource '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/rg-skilltest/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<app-name>'. If you still want to delete the search service, manually delete the SPL resource first and try again. RequestId: 668d14c8-a1f5-4329-a37c-c636f847416e

There is nothing else in this resource group except for the ai search service. The web app mentioned in the error message doesn't exist there. I already tried to delete the web app with

az webapp delete --name <app-name> --resource-group rg-skilltest

That doesn't bring up an error message, but I still can't delete the ai search service after that.

When trying to delete via rest, this is the message I get:
Conflict({"error":{"code":"ConflictError","message":"Unable to delete Search Service: '<search-service-name>'. LockedSPLResourceFound: Unable to verify management locks on Resource '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/rg-skilltest/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<app-name>'. If you still want to delete the search service, manually delete the SPL resource first and try again. RequestId: 28a83b7f-b522-4ea7-a745-d26cc42e6fdf","target":null,"details":null}})
Siva Nair 2,420 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-07T14:47:52.9433333+00:00
Hi Christian Herzog,

Noted, Azure is preventing deletion of your Azure AI Search service (srch-skilltest-za4uh) because it's linked to a resource with a lock

Run this command to list locks:

az lock list --resource-group rg-skilltest --output table

Look for a lock on app-skilltest-za4uh and delete it:

az lock delete \ --name <lock-name> \ --resource-group rg-skilltest \ --resource app-skilltest-za4uh \ --resource-type Microsoft.Web/sites

You can also go to the Azure Portal → App Service → Settings → Locks and remove it there.

Now retry the delete ai search service:

az search service delete \ --name srch-skilltest-za4uh \ --resource-group rg-skilltest \ --yes

Let me know the outcome, if still it issue persist, will help you and investigate deeper.
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-07T14:53:59.23+00:00

Hi Siva,

I ran the command to get the table with the locks. But there is none showing up.
When going to the Azure portal and going to app services, I don't see any web app with the name referenced in the error message
So the service that seems to be locked isn't even there.
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-08T07:51:31.6233333+00:00

Thanks Sampath!

That did it. I don't really understand how that private link came to be, as I didn't add it myself (must have happened sometime automatically). Also the resource it linked to didn't exist again.

But in the end, I was now able to delete the ai search service. Thank you very much for your support!

Regards,

Christian
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-08T08:09:22.1133333+00:00

One more thing though - is this going to be made publicly available? I'm asking because I didn't obfuscate anything in the screenshots, as I thought this is the way support tickets are handled now.
Sampath 3,750 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-08T09:30:33.09+00:00

Hello @Christian Herzog, If you posted this on Microsoft Q&A , then yes, it is public unless you set it to private. If this a private message, then only you and Microsoft moderators can see it. I suggest you to mask the images content of sensitive data and update them.

Thank for conforming it worked. I will post above comment to answer please do click accept and click on yes.

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Siva Nair 2,420 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-07T14:23:31.24+00:00

Hi Christian Herzog,

Can you send me the full error message after Error: in above screenshot, that will help us to dip down and find the solution, and meanwhile

Can you run the CLI command and try to delete

az search service delete \ --name srch-skilltest-za4uh \ --resource-group <your-resource-group-name> \ --yes

If That Fails: Use Azure REST API (via CLI)

az rest --method delete \ --url "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/<your-subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<your-resource-group-name>/providers/Microsoft.Search/searchServices/srch-skilltest-za4uh?api-version=2023-11-01"

Please change the subscription ID and your group name

If you have any further assistant, do let me know.
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-07T14:30:44.5133333+00:00

Hi Siva,

Here it is:

(ConflictError) Unable to delete Search Service: '<search-service-name>'. LockedSPLResourceFound: Unable to verify management locks on Resource '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/rg-skilltest/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<app-name>'. If you still want to delete the search service, manually delete the SPL resource first and try again. RequestId: 668d14c8-a1f5-4329-a37c-c636f847416e

Code: ConflictError

Message: Unable to delete Search Service: 'srch-skilltest-za4uh'. LockedSPLResourceFound: Unable to verify management locks on Resource '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/rg-skilltest/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<app-name>'. If you still want to delete the search service, manually delete the SPL resource first and try again. RequestId: 668d14c8-a1f5-4329-a37c-c636f847416e

There is nothing else in this resource group except for the ai search service. The web app mentioned in the error message doesn't exist there. I already tried to delete the web app with

az webapp delete --name <app-name> --resource-group rg-skilltest

That doesn't bring up an error message, but I still can't delete the ai search service after that.

When trying to delete via rest, this is the message I get:
Conflict({"error":{"code":"ConflictError","message":"Unable to delete Search Service: '<search-service-name>'. LockedSPLResourceFound: Unable to verify management locks on Resource '/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/rg-skilltest/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<app-name>'. If you still want to delete the search service, manually delete the SPL resource first and try again. RequestId: 28a83b7f-b522-4ea7-a745-d26cc42e6fdf","target":null,"details":null}})
Siva Nair 2,420 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-07T14:47:52.9433333+00:00

Hi Christian Herzog,

Noted, Azure is preventing deletion of your Azure AI Search service (srch-skilltest-za4uh) because it's linked to a resource with a lock

Run this command to list locks:

az lock list --resource-group rg-skilltest --output table

Look for a lock on app-skilltest-za4uh and delete it:

az lock delete \ --name <lock-name> \ --resource-group rg-skilltest \ --resource app-skilltest-za4uh \ --resource-type Microsoft.Web/sites

You can also go to the Azure Portal → App Service → Settings → Locks and remove it there.

Now retry the delete ai search service:

az search service delete \ --name srch-skilltest-za4uh \ --resource-group rg-skilltest \ --yes

Let me know the outcome, if still it issue persist, will help you and investigate deeper.
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-07T14:53:59.23+00:00

Hi Siva,

I ran the command to get the table with the locks. But there is none showing up.
When going to the Azure portal and going to app services, I don't see any web app with the name referenced in the error message
So the service that seems to be locked isn't even there.
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-08T07:51:31.6233333+00:00

Thanks Sampath!

That did it. I don't really understand how that private link came to be, as I didn't add it myself (must have happened sometime automatically). Also the resource it linked to didn't exist again.

But in the end, I was now able to delete the ai search service. Thank you very much for your support!

Regards,

Christian
Christian Herzog 20 Reputation points

2025-04-08T08:09:22.1133333+00:00

One more thing though - is this going to be made publicly available? I'm asking because I didn't obfuscate anything in the screenshots, as I thought this is the way support tickets are handled now.
Sampath 3,750 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-08T09:30:33.09+00:00

Hello @Christian Herzog, If you posted this on Microsoft Q&A , then yes, it is public unless you set it to private. If this a private message, then only you and Microsoft moderators can see it. I suggest you to mask the images content of sensitive data and update them.

Thank for conforming it worked. I will post above comment to answer please do click accept and click on yes.

Answer 1

Hello @Christian Herzog,

I encountered the same error when a Shared Private Link was added.

Error Screenshot

To resolve this, navigate to the Networking section of Azure AI Search and locate the Shared Private Link.

Delete the Shared Private Link, then retry deleting the Azure AI Search service.

To delete a Shared Private Link (SPL) resource in Azure AI Search using the Azure CLI, run the following command:


az search shared-private-link-resource delete --name <shared-private-link-name>  --resource-group <resource-group-name> --service-name <search-service-name> --yes

Success Screenshot

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If you have any other questions or still running into more issues, let me know in the "comments" and I would be happy to help you.

Yogendra Londhe 0 Reputation points

2025-05-16T10:57:25.6233333+00:00

I was facing same issue, but resolved now, very helpful, thanks

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