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Does Azure Automation support Write-Information?


If you want to write info logs into Azure Automation job logs, I suggest you use write-output. For details, you can refer to this article.

I'm not sure if write-information is supported or not in runbook. I test it at my side, as well as I test the cmdlet write-host which is a wrapper for write-information. But no message output for both of them.

A support ticket is raised for confirmation from MS.

Hope this helps.


Azure Automation does not fully support the Information stream at this point. PowerShell 5 support is not enough: your runbook will not fail, but Automation will not capture and store the Information stream content, and this is why you will not see it in the logs.


I do wish Write-Information was available in Azure Automation.

Using Write-Output in a function that you want to return something else (like a Boolean) is quite problematic.