Can't disable DevOps pipeline code coverage report

I want to disable the DevOps code coverage report that shows on PRs as I'm using a 3rd party tool as a quality gate.

The Microsoft documentation suggests you can turn the coverage status off in the yaml pipeline configuration like this (see example):

coverage:
  status: off

However a complete yaml example isn't provided so it's not clear where in the pipeline definition it should be included. I presume it's intended to be used like this:

trigger:
- main

coverage:
  status: off

pool:
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

steps:
- script: echo "My DevOps Pipeline"

Unfortunately when trying to run the above pipeline I get the following error:

> Unexpected property coverage

Is this feature deprecated or has someone else managed to disable the coverage status?

The documentation you posted is talking about the default setting of the code coverage experience for pull requests. This is configured in a separate azurepipelines-coverage.yml at the root of your repo and not in the pipeline YAML.

> If you would like to change the default settings of the code coverage experience for pull requests, you must include a configuration YAML file named azurepipelines-coverage.yml at the root of your repo. Set the desired values in this file and it will be used automatically the next time the pipeline runs.

From the documentation link you posted in your question