Following our public preview announcement last August, we are happy to announce the General Availability of Managed Identity authentication in Container Insights.
Managed Identity is a secure and simplified authentication model where our monitoring agent uses the cluster’s managed identity to send data to the Azure Monitor backend. It replaces the existing legacy certificate-based local authentication and removes the requirement of adding a monitoring metrics publisher role to the cluster. Both system-assigned identity and user-assigned identity are supported.
Managed Identity will now also be the default authentication mechanism for Container Insights going forward and customers are encouraged to migrate to Managed identity authentication.
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About Managed Identity authentication
