Authenticate on Application Insights REST API with AAD

Question

So far I used successfully Application Insights REST API for getting metrics with X-Api-Key header. https://api.applicationinsights.io/beta/apps/xxxxxxxxxx/metrics/customMetrics%2FmetricName?timespan=PT2H&interval=PT20M&aggregation=min

However with our new dashboard, crawling several metrics, we hit hard the 1500 request/api key limit.

Some suggest to play around with several api keys, but I would like to prevent this approach.

According to documentation, authenticate with AAD would remove the daily cap (https://dev.applicationinsights.io/documentation/Authorization/Rate-limits)

But I fail to authenticate with AAD (in nodejs, but I suspect it's the same in any language)

I used adal-node with a simple app, I successfully get a token, however I'm not able to forward it to the Request

var context = new AuthenticationContext(authorityUrl);

context.acquireTokenWithClientCredentials(resource, clientId, clientSecret, function(err, tokenResponse) {
  if (err) {
    console.log('well that didn\'t work: ' + err.stack);
  } else {
    console.log(tokenResponse);

    request({'url' : 'https://api.applicationinsights.io/beta/apps/xxxxxxxxx/metrics/customMetrics%2Fmetrics?timespan=PT2H&interval=PT20M&aggregation=min',
    headers: {
            'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + tokenResponse.accessToken
        }
    }, function (error,response,body){
            console.log(body);
    });
  }
});

I'm getting following error message The provided authentication is not valid for this resource The given API Key is not valid for the requested resource

I suspect I miss something :)

Not for the present time, I'm little perplex on how using the powershell commands (see below answer) described in the documentation. For the time being I'm cheating with a set of apikeys :( — camous
I've ending up using Azure Log Analytics queries targeting several metrics at once in order to address the limit issue. dev.applicationinsights.io/apiexplorer/postQuery — camous

Divya Divya · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-24T18:48:25

We don't support AAD in our REST API directly. Your resource is managed by the Azure Resource Manager, and only it can validate a certain user has access to this resource. API Keys are our way of short circuiting the authorization directly to a resource, instead of in the user context.

You gave this AAD app access to this resource as yourself, so the authentication is still in the context of a user. The call has to be made to ARM instead: 'https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourcegroups/xxxxx/providers/microsoft.insights/components/xxxxx/api/metrics/customMetrics%2Fmetrics?api-version=2014-12-01-preview&timespan=PT2H&interval=PT20M&aggregation=min'

Documentation is linked here - though not explained explicitly: https://dev.applicationinsights.io/documentation/Authorization

This will get you a higher rate-limit, and still return the same response as the REST API.

Authenticate on Application Insights REST API with AAD

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