Error in Azure WebJobs

Question

I have created a console app and managed to upload it to the cloud, and I have scheduled it to run every 15 minutes. The console app runs for the first time with success as

Answer 1

To clarify a couple of possible gotchas (adding to the accepted answer):

Set these values by going to

App Services -> Your Web App -> Settings / "All Settings" -> Application Settings -> (In page under header) Connection strings

There you'll find Name, Value, and a Type drop down.

Name: Do NOT put your storage account name here! Rather, this is where you put AzureWebJobsDashboard for one connection string and on the next AzureWebJobsStorage. The value for these should look like:

DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=<mysupercoolblobstorageaccountname>;AccountKey=<blahblah==>

-- Old Portal -- I've had problems with this before where it was fixed in the old portal, so for that sake:

Old Portal: Your website -> Configure tab -> under 'connection strings', enter two new values: a) dropdown type CUSTOM, for NAME do NOT enter the name of your storage account! rather Name is: 'AzureWebJobsDashboard' or for the other (enter two entries): 'AzureWebJobsStorage'.

Answer 2

Web Job is not able to figure out the connectionString value in appsettings.json file. There could be two scenario:

1. If you are using an emulator, try adding this in your appsettings.json file

{
   "ConnectionStrings": {
      "AzureWebJobsDashboard": "UseDevelopmentStorage=true",
      "AzureWebJobsStorage": "UseDevelopmentStorage=true"
    }
}

2. If you are trying to connect directly to your Azure portal

{
   "ConnectionStrings": {
       "AzureWebJobsDashboard": "url",
       "AzureWebJobsStorage": "url"
    }
 }

Answer 3

You need to set AzureJobsRuntime as a connection string (for an Azure storage account), you can do that on the Azure portal under: Websites --> Your Website --> CONFIGURE tab --> connection strings.