Restarting a web-app using Logic Apps

Unfortunately its not straight forward and the help wasnt very helpful. So here are the steps and the pages I had to look up for getting the data.

1. Create a logic app and add whatever trigger you need. (I used a recurrence based trigger, but you could use a HTTP request, etc).
2.  Add a new step and then look for Azure Resource Manager. Once you click on it, search for "Invoke" and pick the "Invoke Resource Operation" action.
   
3. You will need to fill in the following parameters and here is how to find them:
   
4. Subscription: This should be available in the drop-down. Else, its your subscription Id.
5. Resource Group: The resource group in which your web-app resides
6. Resource Provider: Microsoft.Web
   This I figured out from this page: Resource providers for Azure services
   Microsoft.Web because I needed to manage an App Service.
   
7. Short Resource Id: this I figured out by going to the "Properties" section of my App Service and its the in the "ResourceId".
   
   The value will end up being something like "sites/xxxxxxx"
8. Action Name: Lets look at this param before the ClientAPIVersion.
   The function we want to invoke is "Restart" which I found via the REST API documentation pages: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/appservice/webapps
   Restart: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/appservice/webapps/restart
   You can check out all the other parameters that one could provide. In this case, we dont need any additional parameters.
9. Client Api Version: This is date value and you can get it from the Restart API documenation page. Its called "API Version" and can be found at the top of the page. In my case, as of writing of this post the value was "2019-08-01".
10. Final result will look like this:
    
11. Test it out by clicking run.


1. If it ran successfully, you should see a screen that looks like this
   
2. You should also check the activity log of the web-app to see if it did restart.
   

Restarting a redis cache

To restart a redis cache, here are the parameters you need for the Invoke operation:

Subscription: subscription in which the resource resides

Resource Group: resource group in which the resource resides.

Resource Provider: Microsoft.Cache

Short Resource Id: Redis/NameOfCacheInstance (can be found under properties of your cache instance)

Client API Version: 2016-04-01 (as of the writing of this post)

Action Name: forceReboot

Request Body: {"rebootType":"AllNodes"}