az find errors out

[mnuman]

Describe the bug

Hi, the az find vm example from the documentation errors out using the following az version:

{
  "azure-cli": "2.87.0",
  "azure-cli-core": "2.87.0",
  "azure-cli-telemetry": "1.1.0",
  "extensions": {
    "containerapp": "1.3.0b4"
  }
}

with the following error message:

Related command

az find vm

Errors

Finding examples...
The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:
HTTPSConnectionPool(host='app.aladdin.microsoft.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1.0/examples?query=vm&clientType=AzureCli&context=%7B%22versionNumber%22%3A+%222.87.0%22%2C+%22correlationId%22%3A+%225f8d09de-5d4b-435b-800d-4192e978adc6%22%2C+%22subscriptionId%22%3A+%22cd7f62d0-abd9-41c6-85e3-12f71ccd233b%22%2C+%22eventId%22%3A+%22ae9b13e9-9d74-4743-b173-61e63396af66%22%7D (Caused by NameResolutionError("HTTPSConnection(host='app.aladdin.microsoft.com', port=443): Failed to resolve 'app.aladdin.microsoft.com' ([Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known)"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 204, in _new_conn
sock = connection.create_connection(
(self._dns_host, self.port),
...<2 lines>...
socket_options=self.socket_options,
)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 60, in create_connection
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.13_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/socket.py", line 977, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 788, in urlopen
response = self._make_request(
conn,
...<10 lines>...
**response_kw,
)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 488, in _make_request
raise new_e
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 464, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1106, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 759, in connect
self.sock = sock = self._new_conn()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 211, in _new_conn
raise NameResolutionError(self.host, self, e) from e
urllib3.exceptions.NameResolutionError: HTTPSConnection(host='app.aladdin.microsoft.com', port=443): Failed to resolve 'app.aladdin.microsoft.com' ([Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 645, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
method=request.method,
...<9 lines>...
chunked=chunked,
)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 842, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
method, url, error=new_e, _pool=self, _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2]
)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 543, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, reason) from reason # type: ignore[arg-type]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='app.aladdin.microsoft.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1.0/examples?query=vm&clientType=AzureCli&context=%7B%22versionNumber%22%3A+%222.87.0%22%2C+%22correlationId%22%3A+%225f8d09de-5d4b-435b-800d-4192e978adc6%22%2C+%22subscriptionId%22%3A+%22cd7f62d0-abd9-41c6-85e3-12f71ccd233b%22%2C+%22eventId%22%3A+%22ae9b13e9-9d74-4743-b173-61e63396af66%22%7D (Caused by NameResolutionError("HTTPSConnection(host='app.aladdin.microsoft.com', port=443): Failed to resolve 'app.aladdin.microsoft.com' ([Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known)"))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/knack/cli.py", line 233, in invoke
cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/init.py", line 677, in execute
raise ex
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/init.py", line 820, in _run_jobs_serially
results.append(self._run_job(expanded_arg, cmd_copy))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/init.py", line 789, in _run_job
result = cmd_copy(params)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/init.py", line 335, in call
return self.handler(*args, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/command_operation.py", line 120, in handler
return op(**command_args)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/find/custom.py", line 35, in process_query
response = call_aladdin_service(cli_term)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/find/custom.py", line 129, in call_aladdin_service
response = requests.get(
api_url,
...<4 lines>...
},
headers=headers)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 73, in get
return request("get", url, params=params, **kwargs)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 59, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 592, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 706, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 678, in send
raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='app.aladdin.microsoft.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1.0/examples?query=vm&clientType=AzureCli&context=%7B%22versionNumber%22%3A+%222.87.0%22%2C+%22correlationId%22%3A+%225f8d09de-5d4b-435b-800d-4192e978adc6%22%2C+%22subscriptionId%22%3A+%22cd7f62d0-abd9-41c6-85e3-12f71ccd233b%22%2C+%22eventId%22%3A+%22ae9b13e9-9d74-4743-b173-61e63396af66%22%7D (Caused by NameResolutionError("HTTPSConnection(host='app.aladdin.microsoft.com', port=443): Failed to resolve 'app.aladdin.microsoft.com' ([Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known)"))

Issue script & Debug output

az find vm

Expected behavior

Just show me the commands for az related to vm, just like the getting starting states

Environment Summary

{
"azure-cli": "2.87.0",
"azure-cli-core": "2.87.0",
"azure-cli-telemetry": "1.1.0",
"extensions": {
"containerapp": "1.3.0b4"
}
}

Additional context

N/A

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[github-actions]

Here are some similar issues that might help you. Please check if they can solve your problem.

• Failing to resolve app.aladdin.microsoft.com #31975
• az find error #15423
• Erro ao tentar usar o az find #23780

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Possible solution (Extracted from existing issue, might be incorrect; please verify carefully)

Solution 1:

Resolved by updating to latest (2.12.1).

Reference:

• az find error #15423 (comment)

Solution 2:

Works again!

Reference:

• Failing to resolve app.aladdin.microsoft.com #31975 (comment)

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[necusjz]

#33491 a new experience is being developed to replace it. In the meantime, please use az <command> --help to explore commands and examples, or visit https://aka.ms/cli_ref for reference documentation.

thanks for your understanding.