Azure-docs: ARM template capability?

[CharmanderJieniJieni]

Can I provision Linux Diagnostic Extension through ARM? I can find the windows one but couldn't find Linux Diagnostic Extension ARM documentation anywhere

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• Version Independent ID: bf8a2d1a-8d9b-228a-6919-16127f315d40
• Content: Azure Compute - Linux Diagnostic Extension
• Content Source: articles/virtual-machines/extensions/diagnostics-linux.md
• Service: virtual-machines-linux
• GitHub Login: @MicahMcKittrick-MSFT
• Microsoft Alias: mimckitt

[Karishma-Tiwari-MSFT]

Thanks for the question. We are currently investigating and will update you shortly.

[jakaruna-MSFT]

We should be able to do.

Regular extension template can be used. Reference is here. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/templates/microsoft.compute/2018-10-01/virtualmachines/extensions

But you need to give lot of parameters in public and protected settings.

[CharmanderJieniJieni]

Thanks, if you take a look at the reference, what to put in "settings" section is what I am looking for, we can't randomly guess what should be put inside, instead there should be some sort of documentation on it

[Karishma-Tiwari-MSFT]

Thanks for the feedback! I have assigned the issue to the content author to investigate further and update the document as appropriate.

[reijoh]

I have an ARM template for VM deployments and I was deploying this extension with that template back in 2019. But then it stopped working. I have tried to make it work from time to time since then but it always fail with the following error (deploying ubuntu 18.04):
{
"status": "Failed",
"error": {
"code": "ResourceDeploymentFailure",
"message": "The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.",
"details": [
{
"code": "VMExtensionProvisioningError",
"message": "VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'LinuxDiagnostic'. Error message: \"Extension operation Enable failed:'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_fluentd_syslog_src_config'\"\r\n\r\nMore information on troubleshooting is available at https://aka.ms/VMExtensionLinuxDiagnosticsTroubleshoot "
}
]
}
}

The extension:
{ "comments": "~~ VM Extension - LinuxDiagnostic ~~", "type": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions", "apiVersion": "2018-10-01", "name": "[concat(variables('vmNamePrefix'), padLeft(copyindex('extDiagLinuxLoop', 1), 2, '0'), '/LinuxDiagnostic')]", "condition": "[not(variables('isWindowsOS'))]", "tags": "[variables('tagResources')]", "copy": { "name": "extDiagLinuxLoop", "count": "[parameters('numberOfInstances')]" }, "location": "[variables('rgLocation')]", "dependsOn": [ "[resourceId('Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines', concat(variables('vmNamePrefix'), padLeft(copyindex('extDiagLinuxLoop', 1), 2, '0')))]", "[resourceId('Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions', concat(variables('vmNamePrefix'), padLeft(copyindex('extDiagLinuxLoop', 1), 2, '0')), 'MicrosoftMonitoringAgent')]" ], "properties": { "publisher": "Microsoft.Azure.Diagnostics", "type": "LinuxDiagnostic", "typeHandlerVersion": "3.0", "autoUpgradeMinorVersion": true, "settings": { "ladCfg": { "diagnosticMonitorConfiguration": { "syslogEvents": { "syslogEventConfiguration": { "LOG_AUTH": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_AUTHPRIV": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_CRON": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_DAEMON": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_FTP": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_KERN": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL0": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL1": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL2": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL3": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL4": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL5": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL6": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LOCAL7": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_LPR": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_MAIL": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_NEWS": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_SYSLOG": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_USER": "LOG_DEBUG", "LOG_UUCP": "LOG_DEBUG" } }, "sampleRateInSeconds": 15, "eventVolume": "Medium", "metrics": { "resourceId": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines', concat(variables('vmNamePrefix'), padLeft(copyindex('extDiagLinuxLoop', 1), 2, '0')))]", "metricAggregation": [ { "scheduledTransferPeriod": "PT1H" }, { "scheduledTransferPeriod": "PT1M" } ] }, "performanceCounters": { "performanceCounterConfiguration": [ { "annotation": [ { "displayName": "Filesystem % free space", "locale": "en-us" } ], "class": "filesystem", "condition": "IsAggregate=TRUE", "counter": "percentfreespace", "counterSpecifier": "/builtin/filesystem/percentfreespace", "type": "builtin", "unit": "Percent" }, { "annotation": [ { "displayName": "Filesystem % used space", "locale": "en-us" } ], "class": "filesystem", "condition": "IsAggregate=TRUE", "counter": "percentusedspace", "counterSpecifier": "/builtin/filesystem/percentusedspace", "type": "builtin", "unit": "Percent" }, { "annotation": [ { "displayName": "Filesystem used space", "locale": "en-us" } ], "class": "filesystem", "condition": "IsAggregate=TRUE", "counter": "usedspace", "counterSpecifier": "/builtin/filesystem/usedspace", "type": "builtin", "unit": "Bytes" }, { "annotation": [ { "displayName": "Filesystem read bytes/sec", "locale": "en-us" } ], "class": "filesystem", "condition": "IsAggregate=TRUE", "counter": "bytesreadpersecond", "counterSpecifier": "/builtin/filesystem/bytesreadpersecond", "type": "builtin", "unit": "CountPerSecond" }, { "annotation": [ { "displayName": "Filesystem free space", "locale": "en-us" } ], "class": "filesystem", "condition": "IsAggregate=TRUE", "counter": "freespace", "counterSpecifier": "/builtin/filesystem/freespace", "type": "builtin", "unit": "Bytes" }, { "annotation": [ { "displayName": "Filesystem % free inodes", "locale": "en-us" } ], "class": "filesystem", "condition": "IsAggregate=TRUE", "counter": "percentfreeinodes", "counterSpecifier": "/builtin/filesystem/percentfreeinodes", "type": "builtin", "unit": "Percent" } ] } } }, "StorageAccount": "[variables('vmDiagStorageAccountName')]" }, "protectedSettings": { "storageAccountName": "[variables('vmDiagStorageAccountName')]", "storageAccountSasToken": "[listAccountSas(variables('vmDiagStorageAccountName'), '2019-06-01', variables('accountSasProperties'))]", "storageAccountEndPoint": "https://core.windows.net/" } } }

[paulehr]

I ran into the same issue and i have an SR open on it right now. If you delete the extension after the VM is deployed and re-install via azure cli/powershell it works after that. I am hoping support can assist with this as we shouldn't have to do that

[jenalimor]

Hello - Has this issue been fixed? I am running into it as well. I understand that we can enable in other ways but we would like to deploy via ARM template

[jenalimor]

I was able to get this working by moving the listAccountSas function to the parameters as a securestring parameter section and passing in a single variable for the protectedSettings.StorageAccountSasToken - I would guess the python script running the diagnostics part on the VM cant properly assemble the accountSasProperties for some reason

[mimckitt]

We are currently cleaning up old issues and closing out items that are greater than 90 days old. If an issue is still present, please open a new feedback item on the document so we can prioritize correctly.

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