Azure-quickstart-templates: The workspace name is not unique

[INGourav]

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Issue Details

{
"error": {
"code": "Conflict",
"message": "The workspace name 'xxxxxx-oms' is not unique",
"target": "name"
}
}

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[followtushar]

change the name in deployment window.

[stephenmontgomery]

Hi,
Any update on this? I have run into this several times on 2 different resource groups. Using [concat(variables('namespace'), '-Workspace-', uniqueString(resourceGroup().id))] to create unique workspace names. Appears to me that when the resource group gets torn down, Azure sometimes leaves OMS workspace dangling...
Deleting the resource group doesn't sort it either - have to use another RG completely or change the naming of workspace.

[boschcrank]

Same here. Since naming is important to use, we cannot always resort to use new names for given LA workspaces (especially when creating all the Azure resources via Terraform/devops pipeline).

[superfliege]

I would like to create a specific resource and link it to an OMS.

Unfortunately I get the following error message.

However, the resource is unique.

If I take an empty resource group for my template and execute the template, everything will be recreated.

I can not explain that unfortunately.

My template:
Pastebin

Resource Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces 'LogAnalyticsUpdates' failed with message '{ "error": { "code": "Conflict", "message": "The workspace name 'MyWorkspaceName' is not unique", "target": "name" }

[INGourav]

@superfliege Could you please the entire template here, If possible for you.

[superfliege]

@unpredictablegourav Full template example: https://www.danielstechblog.io/deploy-update-management-solution-azure-resource-manager-template/

[tj111]

We ran into the same issue following this tutorial: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/terraform/terraform-create-k8s-cluster-with-tf-and-aks

[bergmeister]

The problem seems to be that the namespace name has to be unique across the whole of Azure, not just the subscription/tenant:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/35143#issuecomment-514179683

[joshschmitter]

Note that deleted workspaces move to a 14 day soft-delete period, which may contribute to this error message. This page shows how to recover or permanently delete soft-deleted workspaces.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/delete-workspace