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title: "Connect to Azure account | Grafana Labs"
description: "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."
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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.

Navigate to the **Add new credential** page in Grafana Cloud if you’re not already there.

1. Enter your Azure service principal credentials on the **Add new credential** page.
2. In the **Name** field, enter a descriptive name for your credential, for example `production-azure-monitoring`.
3. In the **Client id** field, paste the `appId` value from the service principal output.
4. In the **Client secret** field, paste the `password` value from the service principal output.
5. In the **Tenant id** field, paste the `tenant` value from the service principal output.
6. Your Azure service principal credentials are entered on the form.

(Optional) Add Azure resource tags to label your metrics, limit which resources are collected, or both.

By default, resource information including tags is available on the `target_info` metric. For each tag you add, you choose whether to add it as a label on your metrics (**Add tag to metrics**), use it to collect only resources whose Azure tag matches a value (**Filter by tag value**), or both.

Tag filters apply to every resource type the credential discovers. To use different filters for different resource types, create separate credentials.

Skip the following section if you don’t need tags.

1. In the **Tags** field, type the Azure resource tag key, for example `environment`, and press Enter. Use the Azure tag format, not the Prometheus format.
2. In the table that appears, select **Add tag to metrics** to add the tag as a label on your metrics, or select **Filter by tag value** and enter a value in **Tag value filter**, for example `production`, to collect only resources with that tag value. Select at least one option for each tag.

(Optional) Add static labels for easier filtering and grouping in Grafana Cloud.

Static labels are key-value pairs applied to all metrics exported by this credential. Use them to distinguish metrics from different environments or teams—for example, add a key of `environment` and a value of `production`.

Static labels apply to every metric from this credential. To apply different labels to different Azure resources, create separate credentials.

Skip the following section if you don’t need static labels on your metrics.

1. In the **Static labels** section, enter a label key, for example `environment`.
2. Enter a label value, for example `production`.
3. Click **Add** in the **Static labels** section to save the label.

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.