**TL;DR:** The resource group is not where the command is looking. Nine times out of ten the CLI is pointed at the wrong subscription; the tenth is a typo or a delete that already happened. Watch for typos: names are case-insensitive in Azure but your script's string must still match. Retry with backoff before concluding failure.

## The fix

1. `az account show --query "{sub:name, id:id}"` - is this the subscription the group lives in? If not, `az account set --subscription [id]`. This is the cause most of the time.

2. `az group list --query "[].name"` - does the group exist in this subscription at all? Watch for typos: names are case-insensitive in Azure but your script's string must still match.

3. `az group show -n [name]` - if list shows it but show fails, you have a read-permission gap (Reader on the subscription but the group listing came from cache, or a deny assignment).

4. Activity log: `az monitor activity-log list --resource-group [name]` - if the group existed and is gone, the log shows who deleted it and when. Groups deleted in the last 14 days are visible here.

5. If a deployment just created it: ARM is eventually consistent. A `get` immediately after `create` in a different process can 404 for a few seconds. Retry with backoff before concluding failure. Automation rule: every script that takes a resource-group parameter should `az group show` (or the SDK equivalent) as its first step and fail fast with the subscription id in the message. The error is cheap to check and expensive to debug downstream.

## When to use this

- This covers exactly what the title says: Azure ResourceGroupNotFound.
- You are setting this up for the first time, or auditing an existing setup.
- You want the key gotchas in one place before you start.

## When not to use this

- You are doing a different workflow with Azure; these steps are specific to the title above.
- You need the full reference docs; this is the short path, not the manual.

## Compatibility

- Not pinned to a specific version; follows current Azure behavior.

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