Remove Change Tracking and Inventory from Automation account

After you enable management of your virtual machines using Azure Automation Change Tracking and Inventory, you may decide to stop using it and remove the configuration from the account and linked Log Analytics workspace. This article tells you how to completely remove Change Tracking and Inventory from the managed VMs, your Automation account, and Log Analytics workspace.

Sign into the Azure portal

Sign in to the Azure portal.

Remove management of VMs

Before removing Change Tracking and Inventory, you need to first stop managing your VMs. See Remove VMs from Change Tracking to unenroll them from the feature.

Remove ChangeTracking solution

Before you can unlink the Automation account from the workspace, you need to follow these steps to completely remove Change Tracking and Inventory. You'll remove the ChangeTracking solution from the workspace.

  1. In the Azure portal, select All services. In the list of resources, type Log Analytics. As you begin typing, the list filters suggestions based on your input. Select Log Analytics.

  2. In your list of Log Analytics workspaces, select the workspace you chose when you enabled Change Tracking and Inventory.

  3. On the left, select Solutions.

  4. In the list of solutions, select ChangeTracking(workspace name). On the Overview page for the solution, select Delete. When prompted to confirm, select Yes.

  1. In the Azure portal, select Automation Accounts.

  2. Open your Automation account and select Linked workspace under Related Resources on the left.

  3. On the Unlink workspace page, select Unlink workspace and respond to prompts.

    Unlink workspace page

While it attempts to unlink the Log Analytics workspace, you can track the progress under Notifications from the menu.

Alternatively, you can unlink your Log Analytics workspace from your Automation account from within the workspace:

  1. In the Azure portal, select Log Analytics.

  2. From the workspace, select Automation Account under Related Resources.

  3. On the Automation Account page, select Unlink account.

While it attempts to unlink the Automation account, you can track the progress under Notifications from the menu.

Next steps

To re-enable this feature, see Enable Change Tracking and Inventory from an Automation account, Enable Change Tracking and Inventory by browsing the Azure portal, Enable Change Tracking and Inventory from a runbook, or Enable Change Tracking and Inventory from an Azure VM.