Error after adding Azure monitor Data Source

Grafana Azure Monitor
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    open-source version deployed in a kubernetes cluster with prometheus
  • What are you trying to achieve?
    I want to add Azure monitor as a data resource
  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    I’ve created an app registration in Azure and assigned the Azure monitoring and Reader role to it
  • What happened?
    When I fill in my Azure credentials in Grafana it can find my Azure subscription and gives a green light. But when I open a dashboard this appears:

Error updating options: The client ‘’ with object id '’ does not have authorization to perform action ‘microsoft.insights/metricNamespaces/read’ over scope ‘/subscriptions//resourceGroups/;/providers/microsoft.insights’ or the scope is invalid. If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials.

  • What did you expect to happen?
    That I would be able to see my Azure metrics in the dashboard

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

Error updating options: The client ‘’ with object id '’ does not have authorization to perform action ‘microsoft.insights/metricNamespaces/read’ over scope ‘/subscriptions//resourceGroups/;/providers/microsoft.insights’ or the scope is invalid. If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials.

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

https://www.cognizantsoftvision.com/blog/how-to-integrate-azure-monitor-with-grafana/

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In other articles I saw that you need to add the Reader role to Grafana in order to solve this, but this didn’t help for me.

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My bad, I figured it out. I needed to assign the Reader role on the subscription level and not only on resource group level. Hopefully this will help someone else in the future.

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Thanks, I was actually running into the same issue and you unstuck me.

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I’ve been stuck for days on this. Thank you!

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This also helped me.
Is this behaviour by design?

We have a subscription where grafana don’t have (read-)access to all resources.
It works fine with Logs and Azure Resource Graph, just not for metrics