I love Azure Functions

Okay with that out of the way I can explain the following:

Problem:

When you are developing Azure functions locally using the azure function tools and runtime every time you start the functions runtime to test/debug some of your functions the timer triggered functions will run as well - as they should.

However if you are not working on those timer triggered functions it can be a pain that they keep triggering...

Don't disable the function

I saw a lot of solutions on the internet proposing you set disabled:true in your function.json file. That's fine and will work, but when you publish that function will still be disabled and that is not what you want. There is a better solution read on ...

Solution:

Let's say you have 3 functions:

• HttpTriggerFunction1
• MyCustomFunction
• TimerTriggeredFunction ==> this is the function you don't want to trigger

You can specify which functions should trigger in your host.json file which should be in the by adding the following

{
    "functions": [
        "HttpTriggerFunction1",
        "MyCustomFunction"
    ]
}

eh voila the timer triggered function will not run.

More information at: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions