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title: "Verify data collection | Grafana Labs"
description: "Verify data collection In this milestone, you’ll verify that Cloud Provider Observability is successfully collecting metrics from your Azure resources and sending them to Grafana Cloud. Confirming data collection ensures your monitoring setup is working correctly before you begin exploring dashboards and creating alerts."
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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).

# Verify data collection

In this milestone, you’ll verify that Cloud Provider Observability is successfully collecting metrics from your Azure resources and sending them to Grafana Cloud. Confirming data collection ensures your monitoring setup is working correctly before you begin exploring dashboards and creating alerts.

1. In Grafana Cloud, click **Observability > Cloud provider > Azure** in the main menu.
2. Click the **Services** tab.
3. Locate the Azure service you want to verify. Use available filters to find specific services if you have many resources.
   
   For example, look for **Azure Virtual Machines** or another service you’re monitoring.
4. To verify metrics are being collected, check the collection status for the service. A status of **Sending data** indicates that metrics are being successfully collected and sent to Grafana Cloud.
5. To verify metrics are flowing, click the service name to view its dashboard. Verify that the dashboard panels display data and that the time series graphs show recent metric values.
   
   > **Note:** It can take up to 5 minutes for the first metrics to appear after creating your credential. If you don’t see data immediately, wait a few minutes and refresh the page.

Data is successfully flowing from your Azure account to Grafana Cloud.

In your next milestone, you’ll explore the Azure service data collected through Cloud Provider Observability using pre-built dashboards and analysis tools.

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### Troubleshooting

Explore the following troubleshooting topics if you need help:

- [Verify Azure service principal permissions](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/azure/troubleshoot/#verify-azure-service-principal-permissions)
- [Check Azure subscription access](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/azure/troubleshoot/#check-azure-subscription-access)

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