Using the Azure API to see a deployment status using .NET

See the status of your Windows Azure deployments using the Windows Azure Service Management REST API. Since this is REST based you can use any framework or programming language that can make web requests. Python, Java etc here is .NET.

Here is a short bit of C# code that will allow you to call the part of the Windows Azure Service Management REST API that deals with getting the status of your hosted service in Azure.

You can see how the REST API is expected to be used here at Get Hosted Service Properties. This code accesses that API:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var subsctiptionId = "f62e5e87-5c76-4a94-9136-794fae3eff16";
    var hostedService = "colintest";
    //I have another post that details how GetCertificateByThumbprint method works:
    //http://www.britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/01/adding-certificate-to-request-in-net.html
    var certificate = GetCertificateByThumbprint("23A43AE81F15CB000000000000000000000000000");

    var statusApiUrl = string.Format(
       "https://management.core.windows.net/{0}/services/hostedservices/{1}?embed-detail=true",
       subsctiptionId, hostedService);
    var hostedServiceStatus = new Uri(statusApiUrl);
    Console.WriteLine("Hosted service status");
    MakeApiRequest(hostedServiceStatus, certificate);
    
    Console.ReadKey();
}

private static void MakeApiRequest(Uri requestUri, X509Certificate2 certificate)
{
    var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri);
    request.Headers.Add("x-ms-version", "2011-10-01");
    request.Method = "GET";
    request.ContentType = "application/xml";
    request.ClientCertificates.Add(certificate);

    try
    {
        using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Response status code: " + response.StatusCode);

            using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Response output:");
                Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
            }
            Console.WriteLine("");
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
        throw e;
    }
}

Since you have used ?embed-detail=true in the querystring this add extra detail. From here you can get all sorts of useful information such as: Status e.g. Running or DeploymentSlot e.g. Production.

Note: The GetCertificateByThumbprint(string thumbprint) method I used is of course simplifying attaching a certificate to the request for the sake of conciseness. You can have a look at what this method is doing here at attaching a certificate to a WebRequest.