Azure CLI - Query Power state of a virtual machine

I would love to query VMs powerstate with azure cli in bash

Mine goal is to stop a virtual machine, but before that check if the machine was already stopped and vise versa.

So I need to get the powerstate of a specific VM, but I don't see az vm list have that as a parameter. How could that be achieved?

Solution

I tried to reproduce the same in my environment and got the results successfully like below:

To check Power state of the Azure Virtual Machine, please use the below command:

az vm show -g ResourceGroupName -n testvm -d --query powerState

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The command will give the status of the specific Azure VM. And based on that you can Start/Stop the Azure Virtual Machine.