Azure Onboarding Prerequisites

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

  • Ensure you have access to your Umbrella 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 Umbrella.
      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 Umbrella 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 Umbrella to create recommendations. For more information review Azure documentation.
        The permission required to make the change: Owner