Dear all, Is there a way to get a script in Azure automation which is trigger when a given Job status change ? That script will call an external Jira API which will then update a status inside a Jira issue Thanks for help regards

Hi, If I understand correctly (correct me if I am wrong) you want to trigger something when a runbook job status is changed. By default, there is no such thing but here are some suggestions: have some custom script/code that runs periodically and checks for changes. There is a job API for Azure Automation jobs. Of course, this requires some custom code to accommodate to the logic for what you are trying to achieve. Automation account has diagnostic logs for jobs . You can send those to Event Hub/Log Analytics/ Storage account. For any of those you will have to do some custom integration to achieve the desired effect. Log Analytics have alerts which trough action groups trigger webhook, some Azure services or built-in notifications. If you can create Log Alert based on Kusto query language that achieve the desired result you can use that. With any of the options you will have to have some custom code in order to interact with the Jira API. Please " Accept the answe r" if the information helped you. This will help us and others in the community as well.

How to trigger an Azure Automation Script when a Job Status change

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Stanislav Zhelyazkov 24,686 Reputation points MVP

2021-08-03T11:00:04.637+00:00
Hi,
If I understand correctly (correct me if I am wrong) you want to trigger something when a runbook job status is changed. By default, there is no such thing but here are some suggestions:

have some custom script/code that runs periodically and checks for changes. There is a job API for Azure Automation jobs. Of course, this requires some custom code to accommodate to the logic for what you are trying to achieve.

Automation account has diagnostic logs for jobs. You can send those to Event Hub/Log Analytics/ Storage account. For any of those you will have to do some custom integration to achieve the desired effect. Log Analytics have alerts which trough action groups trigger webhook, some Azure services or built-in notifications. If you can create Log Alert based on Kusto query language that achieve the desired result you can use that.

With any of the options you will have to have some custom code in order to interact with the Jira API.

Please "Accept the answer" if the information helped you. This will help us and others in the community as well.
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Calderara Serge 46 Reputation points

2021-08-03T12:48:51.807+00:00

Thnaks @Stanislav Zhelyazkov for your reply.

We are actually trying to avoid a pooling base approach.

Based on the Alert we have seen that but once think we cannot find for the Alert and Action Group is that when you define criteria for the Alert we absolutely need to have in the criteria the Job Id.

The reason for that is that we might check for a particular RunBook job to status change.

For exemple a Runbook can be start 2 or 3 times for different environment, but we want to check the status for a particular one with precision and without the JobId we are not able to be sure above the job we monitor.

Any idea or trick to get that Id in the criteria or is it definitely not possible ?

regards

Stanislav Zhelyazkov 24,686 Reputation points MVP

2021-08-03T12:52:03.417+00:00

When the logs are send to Log Analytics job ID is available in column JobId_g. Log Alert v1 will send the results from the query in the webhook. In Log Alert v2 in order for the column to be available in the webhook you will need to add it in dimensions.

Calderara Serge 46 Reputation points

2021-08-03T12:58:08.687+00:00

hello @Stanislav Zhelyazkov ,

I am lost now, do you have a capture of what you are trying to explain or video records somewhere ?

Just to be sure we are on same line. let say I have 2 Job with Id 1 and 2 and I need to monitor when Job 1 is completed.

criteria would be something like JobId=1 and status=Completed Then it will run my script only once

Stanislav Zhelyazkov 24,686 Reputation points MVP

2021-08-03T13:14:17.35+00:00

I am a little bit confused as well. If we talk about the Automation Job logs send to Log Analytics you can have an alert with Kusto query that will create new alert instance for every different job. Every alert instance will fire the action group separately. As I have mentioned the results of a query are in the payload of the alert instance so that will contain the job id. Below is just example query to start with but it will depend on the parameters of the alert and what you want to achieve exactly.

AzureDiagnostics
| where Category == 'JobLogs'
| summarize count() by _ResourceId, JobId_g, ResultType
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