如何以编程方式找出Azure云服务角色实例的开始日期时间（或正常运行时间）？

Question

The old silverlight portal used to show the start datetime of each role instance so I could see when it last cycled.

As far as I can see this information is not surfaced in the HTML5 portal.

Is there a way to programmatically access this information via powershell or the REST API ?

Answer 1

I can't find a way to see each role instance's uptime, but it looks like this will give you the time it's been since a service was last modified (ie with Swap VIPs, Uploading a Package, etc). This and a good old fashioned ping (to make sure it's still alive) should help you know how long your services have been "stable".

[DateTime]::Now - (Get-AzureService | 
    Where-Object { $_.Label -eq 'MyService' } | 
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty DateModified)