Managed Identity support for Azure hosted Grafana and Azure Monitor data source
Customers who host Grafana in Azure (e.g., App Service, Azure Virtual Machines) and have managed identity enabled on their VM, will now be able to avail of managed identity based in Grafana. This will simplify the data source configuration and will allow Azure data sources (e.g., Azure Monitor) to be authenticated in Azure services via the managed identity without having to manually configure service identity via App Registration for each data source. To enable this, you will need to set the managed_identity_enabled = true in the grafana server config.Azure Resource Graph is now supported in Grafana's Azure Monitor data source
Azure Resource Graph (ARG) is a service in Azure that is designed to extend Azure Resource Management by providing efficient and performant resource exploration, with the ability to query at scale across a given set of subscriptions so that you can effectively govern your environment. By querying ARG, you can query resources with complex filtering, iteratively explore resources based on governance requirements, and assess the impact of applying policies in a vast cloud environment. With Grafana 8.0, we are happy to announce that Azure monitor data source now supports querying Azure resource graph. There is no extra configuration needed to use this service. Queries are written in the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/resource-graph/concepts/query-language and Azure Resource Graph query results are formatted as table data. If your credentials give you access to multiple subscriptions, then you can select them before entering the query.
