Tag: resource attributes cannot be determined

When working with terraform loops you may encounter the error that is shown below.

The “for_each” value depends on resource attributes that cannot be determined until apply, so Terraform cannot predict how many instances will be created.

I faced this particular issue when I tried to dynamically create a azurerm_monitor_diagnostic_setting resource for multiple web apps.

The for_each code is shown below:

resource "azurerm_monitor_diagnostic_setting" "diag_settings_app" {
  depends_on = [ azurerm_windows_web_app.app_service1,azurerm_windows_web_app.app_service2 ]
  for_each = toset(local.app_service_ids)
  name               = "diag-rule"
  target_resource_id = each.value
  log_analytics_workspace_id = local.log_analytics_workspace_id
  
  dynamic "log" {
    iterator = entry
    for_each = local.log_analytics_log_categories
    content {
        category = entry.value
        enabled  = true

        retention_policy {
      enabled = false
        }
    }
   
  }

  metric {
    category = "AllMetrics"

    retention_policy {
      enabled = false
      days = 30
    }
  }

}

The local.app_service_ids defines the app services IDs.

app_service_ids = [azurerm_windows_web_app.app_service1.id,azurerm_windows_web_app.app_service2.id]

In order to override this issue I used count loop instead.

resource "azurerm_monitor_diagnostic_setting" "diag_settings_app" {
  depends_on = [ azurerm_windows_web_app.app_service1,azurerm_windows_web_app.app_service2 ]
  count = length(local.app_service_ids)
  name               = "diag-rule"
  target_resource_id = local.app_service_ids[count.index]
  log_analytics_workspace_id = local.log_analytics_workspace_id
  
  dynamic "log" {
    iterator = entry
    for_each = local.log_analytics_log_categories
    content {
        category = entry.value
        enabled  = true

        retention_policy {
      enabled = false
        }
    }
   
  }

  metric {
    category = "AllMetrics"

    retention_policy {
      enabled = false
      days = 30
    }
  }

}

terraform apply will then work: