View the service principal of a managed identity in the Azure portal

Managed identities provide Azure services with an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. You can use this identity to authenticate to any service that supports Microsoft Entra authentication, without having credentials in your code.

In this article, you learn how to view the service principal of a managed identity using the Azure portal.

Note

Service principals are Enterprise Applications.

Prerequisites

• If you're unfamiliar with managed identities for Azure resources, check out the overview section.
• If you don't already have an Azure account, sign up for a free account.
• Enable system assigned identity on a virtual machine or application.

View the service principal

This procedure demonstrates how to view the service principal of a VM with system assigned identity enabled (the same steps apply for an application).

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. In the search box, Enter Microsoft Entra ID. Under Services, Select Microsoft Entra ID and then select Enterprise applications.

3. Under Application Type, choose All Applications and then select Apply.

4. In the search filter box, type the name of the Azure resource that has managed identities enabled or choose it from the list.

   

Next steps

Managed identities for Azure resources