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 13,Authentication with External Services, in order to generate OAuth2 Client IDs and Secrets, we needed to register our Grafana server as an application with the cloud service. The process is very similar for Microsoft Azure:

1. Copy the Tenant ID from Active Directory.
2. Register our Grafana application and copy the Client ID and Secret.
3. Associate the application with a Subscription ID.
4. Generate an API key for Applications Insights.
5. Create...