diff --git a/Makefile-az.mk b/Makefile-az.mk
index 8ba0d0972..ab6f60464 100755
--- a/Makefile-az.mk
+++ b/Makefile-az.mk
@@ -263,12 +263,6 @@ az-klogs: ## Karpenter logs
 az-kevents: ## Karpenter events
 	kubectl get events -A --field-selector source=karpenter
 
-az-provision-gpus:
-	kubectl apply -f examples/workloads/device-plugin.yaml
-	kubectl apply -f examples/provisioner/gpu-provisioner.yaml
-	kubectl apply -f examples/workloads/samples-mnist.yaml
-
-
 az-node-viewer: ## Watch nodes using eks-node-viewer
 	eks-node-viewer --disable-pricing --node-selector "karpenter.sh/nodepool" # --resources cpu,memory
 
diff --git a/hack/azure/general-purpose-small-nodes.yaml b/hack/azure/general-purpose-small-nodes.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ceb0e49ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/azure/general-purpose-small-nodes.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+
+---
+apiVersion: karpenter.sh/v1beta1
+kind: NodePool
+metadata:
+  name: sm-general-purpose
+  annotations:
+    kubernetes.io/description: "General purpose NodePool for generic workloads with small nodes"
+spec:
+  disruption:
+    expireAfter: Never
+  template:
+    spec:
+  # exclude very large SKUs (32+ vCPU)
+      requirements:
+        - key: kubernetes.io/arch
+          operator: In
+          values: ["amd64"]
+        - key: kubernetes.io/os
+          operator: In
+          values: ["linux"]
+        - key: karpenter.sh/capacity-type
+          operator: In
+          values: ["on-demand"]
+        - key: karpenter.azure.com/sku-cpu
+          operator: Lt
+          values: ["3"]
+        - key: karpenter.azure.com/sku-family
+          operator: In
+          values: [D]
+      nodeClassRef:
+        name: default
+---
+apiVersion: karpenter.azure.com/v1alpha2
+kind: AKSNodeClass
+metadata:
+  name: default
+  annotations:
+    kubernetes.io/description: "General purpose AKSNodeClass for running Ubuntu2204 nodes"
+spec:
+  imageFamily: Ubuntu2204
diff --git a/hack/azure/perftest.sh b/hack/azure/perftest.sh
index 6909ae558..35d506e34 100755
--- a/hack/azure/perftest.sh
+++ b/hack/azure/perftest.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@
 
 # This deploys Provisioner requiring small instances (2 vCPU) and 'inflate' deployment with 1 cpu request, requiring VM per replica.
 # It then scales the deployment up to the requested number of replicas (allocating the same number of VMs) and then scales it down.
+# make az-mon-deploy and az-mon-access will configure some monitoring dashboards that can be used to observe the scale up.
 
-# TODO: obtain cluster ID programmatically
-CLUSTER_ID=63559813aff5f40001dfadb5
-DASHBOARD=3052d470-b928-4e5e-bdbc-cc01e18ff318
 
 set -euxo pipefail
 
@@ -14,7 +12,15 @@ replicas="$1"
 
 FMT='+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%SZ'
 START=$(date ${FMT})
-STARTKUBECTL=$(date --iso-8601=seconds)
+
+# Check if the operating system is macOS or Linux
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+    # macOS, use BSD date syntax
+    STARTKUBECTL=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
+else
+    # Linux, use GNU date syntax
+    STARTKUBECTL=$(date --iso-8601=seconds)
+fi
 
 mkdir -p logs
 exec > >(tee -i "logs/az-perftest-${START}-${replicas}.log")
@@ -22,7 +28,7 @@ exec 2>&1
 logk="logs/az-perftest-${START}-${replicas}-karpenter.log"
 
 # prep
-kubectl apply -f examples/provisioner/general-purpose-azure-smallnodes.yaml 
+kubectl apply -f hack/azure/general-purpose-small-nodes.yaml 
 kubectl apply -f examples/workloads/inflate.yaml
 
 # scale up
@@ -31,24 +37,26 @@ kubectl scale --replicas="${replicas}" deployment/inflate
 time kubectl rollout status deployment/inflate --watch --timeout=2h
 date
 ENDUP=$(date ${FMT})
-echo Scale up: "https://dataexplorer.azure.com/dashboards/${DASHBOARD}?p-_startTime=${START}&p-_endTime=${ENDUP}&p-_cluster_id=${CLUSTER_ID}&p-_bin_size=v-20s"
-ENDUPKUBECTL=$(date --iso-8601=seconds)
+echo Scale up: ${START} ${ENDUP} ${replicas} 
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+    # macOS, use BSD date syntax
+    ENDUPKUBECTL=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
+else
+    # Linux, use GNU date syntax
+    ENDUPKUBECTL=$(date --iso-8601=seconds)
+fi
 kubectl logs deployment/karpenter -n karpenter --since-time="${STARTKUBECTL}" > "${logk}"
 
 # scale down
 sleep 30
 kubectl scale --replicas=0 deployment/inflate
 date
-kubectl delete --wait=false nodes -l karpenter.sh/provisioner-name
-time kubectl wait --for=delete   nodes -l karpenter.sh/provisioner-name --timeout=30m
+kubectl delete --wait=false nodes -l karpenter.sh/nodepool
+time kubectl wait --for=delete nodes -l karpenter.sh/nodepool --timeout=2h
 ENDDOWN=$(date ${FMT})
 date
 
 # review
 kubectl logs deployment/karpenter -n karpenter --since-time="${ENDUPKUBECTL}" >> "${logk}"
-az resource list -o table --tag=karpenter.sh_provisioner-name=default
-# az resource wait --deleted --timeout 300 --tag=karpenter.sh_provisioner-name=default - can't wait on tags :(
+az resource list -o table --tag=karpenter.sh_nodepool=sm-general-purpose
 
-# Cluster Autoscaler dashboard links - handy for some metrics
-echo Scale up:   "https://dataexplorer.azure.com/dashboards/${DASHBOARD}?p-_startTime=${START}&p-_endTime=${ENDUP}&p-_cluster_id=${CLUSTER_ID}&p-_bin_size=v-20s"
-echo Scale down: "https://dataexplorer.azure.com/dashboards/${DASHBOARD}?p-_startTime=${ENDUP}&p-_endTime=${ENDDOWN}&p-_cluster_id=${CLUSTER_ID}&p-_bin_size=v-20s"