Prerequisites for onboarding with Azure

This article describes the prerequisites to consider before starting the onboarding process.

• Ensure you have access to your Anodot Cost account.

• On the Azure side, you will need the following permissions in order to complete the configurations:
  • Create App Registration: Create an application for Anodot.
    The permissions required to make the change: Global Admin. 
  • Creating billing export: Create an export of your Azure billing data to a CSV file. 
    The permissions required to make the change: Owner, Contributor, reader, Cost Management contributor, or Cost Management reader.
  • Provide permissions to the Application:
    - provide a "Storage blob data reader" role to the storage account: this will allow Anodot to read your export data from the container. For more information review Azure documentation.
    - provide a "Monitoring Reader" role to your subscriptions: This role provides read-only access to monitoring data across various Azure resources in order for Anodot to create recommendations. For more information review Azure documentation.
    The permission required to make the change: Owner