Azure Authentication

Here are the detailed steps on how to connect Microsoft Azure APIs

  1. Create a new service client in azure portal
  2. Create a client secret for the client created above
  3. Note down the Client ID, Client Secret and Tenant ID
  4. Give reader/monitoring reader access to the resources/subscriptions as necessary
  5. Install the infinity plugin in Grafana and add data source for the same
    1. Expand Authentication section and select "OAuth2"
    2. Select "Client Credentials" as OAuth2 type
    3. Specify the Client ID
    4. Specify the Client Secret
    5. Specify the Token URL https://login.microsoftonline.com/<TENANT_ID>/oauth2/token. Replace <TENANT_ID> with yours
    6. Leave the Scopes section empty
    7. Add the following Endpoint param
      1. Key : resource Value: https://management.azure.com/
    8. If you are using Infinity 1.0.0+, then also specify https://management.azure.com/ as an allowed URL.
  6. Click Save and Test.
  7. Click the Explore button
  8. Configure the query
    1. Specify json as query type
    2. Specify url as source
    3. Specify default parser ( only applicable for Infinity 1.0.0+)
    4. Specify table as format
    5. Method : GET
    6. URL : https://management.azure.com/subscriptions?api-version=2020-01-01
  9. Click Run Query and you will see the results

Config Editor#

Config Editor

Query using Default Parser#

Query using Default Parser

Query using Backend Parser#

Query using Backend Parser

Query using UQL Parser#

UQL