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How to fix "Provisioning of VM extension vmssCSE has timed out"

Bob 0 Reputation points
2026-01-05T11:32:06.8733333+00:00

While scaling up. I get the following error. The exact same setup has worked for months, but suddenly fails with this error. What can I do?

Provisioning of VM extension vmssCSE has timed out. Extension provisioning has taken too long to complete. The extension last reported "Plugin enabled". More information on troubleshooting is available at https://aka.ms/VMExtensionCSELinuxTroubleshoot

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Azure compute resources that are used to create and manage groups of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines.

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