fgheysels
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1 year ago Additional information:
It seems that you can enable / configure Application Insights to only allow to ingest logs / metrics using Azure AD based authentication. When this is enabled, you need to configure your Application Insights logger in your application by specifying the connection-string to the App Insights instance you wish to target. Next to that, you also need to specify the managed identity / service principal that you want to use for authenticating.
More info can be found here.
stijnmoreels
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Azure provides now a way to authenticate towards AppIns via a service principal. I was always suprised why they didn't provide something like this sooner, but hey :).
Now it is supported I want to leverage from this via Arcus. When setting up your sink, there should be a way to set this authentication. More information on the tool itself: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/azure-ad-authentication?tabs=net.
Describe the solution you'd like There are two ways we can handle these things...
We now have in the sink startup
WriteTo.AzureApplicationInsightsWithConnectionString, where we could add an overload parameter with tokenCredential (so you can choose managed identity or service principal).Or we add an extension method on top of
WriteTo.AzureApplicationInsightsWithConnectionString, with name similar to'UsingAuthenication('TokenCredential credential).Describe alternatives you've considered There are no real alternatives, I am a bit stuck as I cannot use the Serilog sink as it doesn't do the convertions.
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