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How to Connect Azure

4 min read Integrations

Connect your Azure subscription to discover and monitor VMs, App Service apps, AKS clusters, and the metrics in Azure Monitor. Nova uses a read-only service principal, so it can see your resources but never change them.

Steps

1

Register an app in Azure

In the Azure portal, register an application (a service principal) and create a client secret. Note the tenant ID, client ID, client secret, and subscription ID.

2

Grant Reader access

Assign the service principal the Reader role on the subscription or the resource groups you want to monitor. Reader is read-only by design.

3

Start the connection

In Nova, go to Settings > Integrations, find the Azure tile, and click Connect.

4

Paste credentials

Enter the tenant ID, client ID, client secret, and subscription ID, then choose which resource groups to import.

5

Validate

Click Validate. Your Azure resources appear in Nova within a few minutes and feed the service map.

Tip:

Scope the service principal to Reader only. Nova never needs write access to monitor your environment.

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