ARM, Azure Resource Explorer and troubleshooting deployments

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If you've ever hit an issue when deploying an ARM template into Azure there are some good resources out there to help you find the root cause.  There is a detailed troubleshooting guide here which covers the various options available to you.  However, you can also use the awesome Azure Resource Explorer: https://resources.azure.com which have added support for ARM deployment operations.

Here you can see an ARM deployment failure:

ARM issue

If we drill down into the operation on the storage resource provider we can see the actual issue:

ARM issue 2

So now, I can fix up my storage name and redeploy - nice little touch added here by Stuart Leeks which clearly shows the current status of the deployment operation:

ARM redeployARM redeploy2

To learn more about Azure Resource Explorer see this great Channel9 video with David Ebbo and Scott Hanselman: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-Resource-Manager-Explorer-with-David-Ebbo.  This project is open source and available on GitHub here: https://github.com/projectkudu/ARMExplorer