Cloud & hybrid monitoring · 6 min read

Bring Azure Monitor metrics into Linivo

Azure Monitor's metrics are pulled through a service principal with reader access, the Azure equivalent of AWS's read-only IAM role approach.

What you'll need

  • An Azure AD app registration with a service principal
  • Reader role assignment on the subscription or resource groups you want visibility into
1

Register an application and create a service principal

In Azure AD, register a new application for Linivo and generate a client secret (or use a certificate, where your policy prefers it) for authentication.

2

Assign the Reader role

Grant the service principal the built-in Reader role at the subscription or resource-group level; it needs read access to metrics and resource metadata, nothing that can modify infrastructure.

3

Add the Azure integration in Linivo

Provide the tenant ID, application ID and client secret; Linivo discovers VMs, databases and other monitored resource types within the scoped subscription or resource groups automatically.