PeriodicRestart not working for App Service configs

[arvindsing]

My customer is testing updates to applicationhost.config using XDT trasforms per this documentation: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Xdt-transform-samples

and had some questions as it doesn’t appear to be working as expected. Here is the existing config for their test site:

  <add name="mgb-cps-test1-dev-e2-app" managedRuntimeVersion="v4.0">
    <processModel identityType="ApplicationPoolIdentity" />
    <recycling logEventOnRecycle="Schedule">
      <periodicRestart>
        <schedule>
          <clear />
          <add value="19:04:00" />
        </schedule>
      </periodicRestart>
    </recycling>
  </add>
  <add name="~1mgb-cps-test1-dev-e2-app" managedRuntimeVersion="v4.0" managedPipelineMode="Integrated">
    <processModel identityType="ApplicationPoolIdentity" />
    <recycling logEventOnRecycle="Schedule">
      <periodicRestart>
        <schedule>
          <clear />
          <add value="19:04:00" />
        </schedule>
      </periodicRestart>
    </recycling>
  </add>
</applicationPools>

Questions: Does setting this periodicRestart actually work for App Service configs? How can we confirm? I was expecting to find something in Logfiles\eventlog.xml and there’s nothing.

[jvano]

Hi

If the problem persists and is related to running it on Azure App Service, please open a support incident in Azure: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/supportability/how-to-create-azure-support-request

This way we can better track and assist you on this case

Thanks,

Joaquin Vano Azure App Service