Azure CLI 2.0 Output Format

Azure CLI 2.0

Azure CLI 2.0 uses JSON as its default output option but provides a way to format the output in any command line.

Types of output

Output Description

json JSON string. This setting is the default.

jsonic Colorized JSON.

table ASCII table with keys as column headings.

tsv Tab-separated values, with no keys

First login to your Azure using this command -

After you're logged in, try the following commands to format your output using cmd.

az resource list --output table

Similarly, you can also try the following using cmd.

az resource list --output json

az resource list --output tsv

These are the various ways by which you can format your output in Azure CLI 2.0. Also, this implies that you can configure the default setting. Here is the command for that.

az configure

By default, it is set to JSON. To change your configuration, press "y" and hit Enter. It will ask you to which format you want to configure.


Make your selection by pressing the keys from 1 to 4 as shown in the above screen. In my case, I have selected 3. It will ask "Would you like to enable logging to file? " Press "yes " and hit Enter.

Now, try to list your Azure Resources without using --output

using cmd: az resource list


Summary

In this way, you can configure your output format of Azure CLI 2.0.