Stopping and deallocating (Customer Initiated) - Customer did not initiated.

Question

My VM keeps deallocating, in the health center I see the following message:

Stopping and deallocating (Customer Initiated)
At Thursday, June 3, 2021, 10:04:38 PM GMT+3, the Azure monitoring system received the following information regarding your Virtual machine:
This virtual machine is stopped and deallocated as requested by an authorized user or process.

I didn't initiate this, so I assume it is the "authorized process" responsible.

Where should I look for possible processes that may stop my VM? are there deallocation rules operational by default? (I'm not using SPOT machines, and I didn't approve any "idle" shutdowns.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Do you have any limits on your subscription, is it a free trial, MSDN or other sponsored subscription? This would usually happen when you have run out of credit for the month.

Answer 2

@Dvir Ginzburg Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, Thank you for posting your here!!

User-initiated reboot or shutdown actions can happen due to multiple reasons

1)If you perform the action from the VM's operating system, you can find the events in the system logs for the root cause.

2)Other scenarios that usually cause the VM to reboot include multiple configuration-change actions. You'll ordinarily see a warning message indicating that executing a particular action will result in a reboot of the VM. Examples include any VM resize operations, changing the password of the administrative account, and setting a static IP address, Windows Updates etc.

Hope this helps!
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Answer 3

For some unknown reason, my VM's are auto-configured to shut down at 7 PM.
I disabled that and it stopped happening.
Thanks:)