Azure Stop a Triggered Web Job

Question

In Azure, Once a Triggered Web Job has begun? What do we need to do - to stop it?

Background:

Our Web Job populates a Service Bus Queue that the

Answer 1

as Kobynet explained above we are using the kudu api and we have the following powershell snippet for stopping the proccess

    $username = $website.PublishingUsername
    $password = $website.PublishingPassword
    $base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username,$password)))
    $ps = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$apiBaseUrl/processes" -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} -Method GET    
    $id = $($ps | where {$_.name -eq $jobname} ).id
    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$apiBaseUrl/processes/$id" -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} -Method DELETE    
    write-host "killed process $id"

Answer 2

I'm not sure when this was added but I managed to kill the jobs via the Kudu Process Explorer.

https://[websitename].scm.azurewebsites.net/ProcessExplorer/

Wait for the process to appear and simply right click and kill process.

Answer 3

The best option we have found is to use KUDU api for getting list of processes, and then kill the desired webjob process.

Answer 4

You can do by clicking on Restart button on the app service that hosts the webjob. it actually clear all jobs and you need to re-deploy.

Note: This button is available on the new portal "portal.azure.com" only but not the old one.

hope this helps.