Azure : How can I disable the translator service

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Azure : How can I disable the translator service

Achraf Lakhdhar 1

Hello,

I have an azure translator service that I would like to disable when certain conditions are met (total number of translated chars...)
I have tested the alert rules, however it seems they are only able to send notifications and the actions to stop VM for example are not supported for the translator service.

Do you have an idea how can I resolve this problem?

Thanks for your help!

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Stanislav Zhelyazkov 28,596 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hi,
Translator service (Cognitive services) does not have the option that you can stop the service. However, if the intention is to stop access to the service you can build your own automation. With Azure Monitor metric alert rules and action groups you can get alerted when certain threshold is reached on specific metric and then execute automation like Azure Automation Runbook, Logic App, Azure Function or third-party service via webhook. Whatever you choose you will have to write your automation workflow. As the Translator service cannot be stopped you could for example disable public network access to it. That can be done in Portal via Networking -> Allow access from: Disabled. On API level this corresponds to setting property publicNetworkAccess to Disabled. Of course when you do that it means that you are not having private endpoints to the service as when Disabled private endpoints can reach the service.

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Achraf Lakhdhar 1 Reputation point

2022-05-31T10:51:04.063+00:00

Hello Stan,

Thank you for your answer. Hower when I access to Networking, I have this message "VNet setting is not supported for current API type or resource location.". Should I configure something or the VNet is not supported for Translator service?
Stanislav Zhelyazkov 28,596 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-05-31T10:59:52.387+00:00

I am not aware of this error. Are you sure you are accessing/setting the option correctly. For example this is how it looks:

Are you sure you have translator service deployed or not some other?
Achraf Lakhdhar 1 Reputation point

2022-05-31T11:08:47.02+00:00

Yes, please see attached image
Stanislav Zhelyazkov 28,596 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-05-31T11:17:15.537+00:00

Is it possible from Overview page click on JSON view and provide the contents of it. You can remove any sensitive data like ID, links, etc.
Achraf Lakhdhar 1 Reputation point

2022-05-31T17:08:27.957+00:00

207177-overview.txt

Please find attached file
Stanislav Zhelyazkov 28,596 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-06-01T06:10:26.117+00:00

ok. Seems when you choose a global region these networking options are not supported. You can try with having the service in specific region but that really depends on your business requirements. Unfortunately the workaround I am proposing works only for non Global translator services. Other option would be to delete the service when you reach that threshold but I do not think that is what you want and it is good approach.
Stanislav Zhelyazkov 28,596 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-06-01T06:50:02.13+00:00

I did a few more tests and even the option is not available in the portal if you set the property "publicNetworkAccess": "Disabled" it is applied. So I would assume that will stop the public access to the service. So try setting the property and test if public network access is blocked. If successful, nothing stops you from automating it.
Achraf Lakhdhar 1 Reputation point

2022-06-01T16:05:04.97+00:00

Thank you! very helpful
Stanislav Zhelyazkov 28,596 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-06-02T07:48:14.603+00:00

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