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Can a function know if it's running in a slot?

I would like to prevent a function to be executed if in "staging" slot.

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Base on the answer from Bruce (thanks again buddy), I wrote that blog post http://www.frankysnotes.com/2017/09/how-to-know-when-azure-function-is.html

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  • I'm very late to this, but if you're looking to disable a function you can use app settings, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/disable-function. To disable a function in a particular slot, you can make this app setting a slot setting. There's no need to write any code, or check any environment variables, in your function to achieve this. – Chris Jan 24 '21 at 19:51

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Can a function know if it's running in a slot?

Per my understanding, you could check the APPSETTING_WEBSITE_SLOT_NAME environment variable in your code, and the value would be Production when your function is under production while the value would be the slot name when your function is under a slot as follows:

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For C#, you could leverage the following code for retrieving this variable:

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("APPSETTING_WEBSITE_SLOT_NAME", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);

Additionally, for F# you could refer to here, for JavaScript you could refer to here.

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