Busy… Starting Role… Repeat

So you deployed a Cloud Service and it’s status is stuck on “Busy (Starting role… Sites were deployed.)” By now you’ve probably checked the SDK assembly versions, checked that your Cloud Service runs in the Azure Emulator and probably everything else that you could think of. So what’s next?

In August 2013 Kevin Williamson published an awesome blog series titled Windows Azure PaaS Compute Diagnostics Data. It contains a wealth of priceless information that ended my 24 hour debug session.