How to get all the services available in a Azure Virtual Machine using REST API?

Question

Using power shell, we can connect to azure virtual machine and execute Get-Service command to list all the services. Is there a way to fetch data using REST API?

Answer 1

You could use this REST API - Virtual Machines Run Commands - Run Command to run Get-Service in the VM, then you could get the services.

Request URL:

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/runCommand?api-version=2019-07-01

Request body:

{
  "commandId": "RunPowerShellScript",
  "script": [
    "Get-Service"
  ]
}

When you call the REST API, you will get a 202 status code, there is no response in the body, you need to call another api in the Location of the header to check the result, check my answer here .

Check the result via call another REST API: