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MSSQL: Windows Active Directory (Kerberos) authentication

You can now use Windows Active Directory (or Kerberos) to authenticate to MSSQL servers from Grafana.

There are four primary ways to authenticate from Grafana to a MSSQL instance with Windows Active Directory:

1. Windows Active Directory username and password
2. Specify the path to a valid keytab file.
3. Specify the path to an up to date credential cache.
4. Specify the path to a JSON document that holds information about several credential caches and the user and database for each one.

To get started, refer to the Getting Started documentation for MSSQL.