Connect to Azure account

In this milestone, you’ll establish the connection between your Azure account and Grafana Cloud using the service principal you created in the previous milestone. This connection enables Grafana Cloud to securely access your Azure metrics and begin monitoring your resources.

To connect your Azure account to Grafana Cloud, complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Add new credential page in Grafana Cloud.

2. In the Name field, enter a descriptive name for your credential.

   Give your credential a unique name that helps you identify which Azure environment it monitors.

   For example, enter production-azure-monitoring or azure-us-east-account.

3. In the Client id field, paste the appId value from the service principal output.

   For example, enter 12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012.

4. In the Client secret field, paste the password value from the service principal output.

   This is the secret password generated when you created the service principal.

5. In the Tenant id field, paste the tenant value from the service principal output.

   For example, enter 87654321-4321-4321-4321-210987654321.

The connection information is entered and ready to be used for metric collection.

In your next milestone, you’ll configure which metrics to collect from your Azure environment.