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title: "Connect to Azure account | Grafana Labs"
description: "Configure the connection between your Azure account and Grafana Cloud using the service principal you created."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# 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.