Configuring a Microsoft Azure Monitor data source
The next stop in our tour of the big cloud providers takes us to Microsoft Azure. The Azure Monitor data source supports four different services:
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Log Analytics
- Application Insights
- Application Insights Analytics
Fortunately, you can configure Azure to allow the data source to access all four services.
As you may recall from Chapter 16, Authenticating Grafana Logins Using LDAP or OAuth 2 Providers, to generate OAuth2 client IDs and secrets, we needed to register our Grafana server as an application with the cloud service. The process for Microsoft Azure is very similar:
- Copy your Tenant ID from Microsoft Entra ID.
- Register a new application for the Grafana data source and establish its proper role.
- Generate a Client ID value and secret for authentication from Grafana.
- Create and configure the Azure Monitor Grafana connection with the Tenant ID and Client credentials...