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If you have more than one set of these items, then authorize an Event Hub or for each set.

Items created or used during the authorization process:

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  1. In Azure Portal, search for Entra ID.

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  2. Click App registrations in the left menu and click new registration

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  3. Register the application

  4. Search for the Event Hubs service and click on it. 

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  5. Click Create.

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  6. Select the subscription and resource group corresponding to the resources that must be monitored.

  7. Enter a name.

  8. In the Location field, select the region containing the resources that must be monitored.

  9. To capture Blob or Data Lake, see How Event Hubs Capture is charged to select a tier. Otherwise, select the cheapest tier and one throughput unit. If you need more resources, they can be added later.

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  10. Select “Review+Create,” then “Create.”

  11. Return to Event Hubs and open the namespace created in the previous steps.

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  12. Select Access control (IAM) in the left menu, click Add, and click Add Access Role Assignment.

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  13. Search for the Azure Event Hubs Data Receiver role and select it and then click Next.

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  14. Click Select members and search for the previously created App registration.

  15. Select the Application by clicking its name.

  16. Once the application is already listed as a selected member, click Select.

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  17. Click Review + Assign.

  18. In the namespace, Create a shared access policy for sending data to the event hub.

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  19. Create a second shared access policy for listening to the event hub.

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  20. Open the listen policy and copy the primary connection string.

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  21. Search for and select the Monitor service.

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  22. Click the Diagnostic Settings option in the left area.

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An Azure account may have thousands of resources which need diagnostic settings configured. If manually enabling the diagnostic settings is inconvenient, use PowerShell to create a policy.

  1. Select a resource.

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  2. Add diagnostic setting.

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  3. Name the diagnostic setting.

  4. Enable metrics and logs. The options will vary.

  5. Enable “Stream to an event hub.”

  6. Select the namespace, hub, and policy you created.

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  7. Click Save.

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  8. Open Entra.

  9. Switch to the directory.

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  10. Add your Entra ID diagnostic settings. Devo recommends enabling all log options.

  11. If it is necessary to monitor resources that have not been created yet, create a policy in PowerShell.

Run It

In the Cloud Collector App, create an Azure Collector instance using this parameters template, replacing the values enclosed in < >. The region name for each event hub will be logged in the region field of cloud.azure. It is not required to be your Azure region.

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