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Tutorial: Create a Microsoft Entra ID Application to use with Insights

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This tutorial covers creating a Microsoft Entra ID application to use with Insights, which is one of the prerequisites for connecting the following tools with Insights:

  • Azure Data Factory (ADF)
  • Grafana
  • Python

Note

PlayFab Insights Management was deprecated on December 11th, 2023. We recommend using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Connections to manage your performance and cost going forward. If your title is still using Insights, continue to see this article for implementation details. For more information, see Insights Deprecation Blog.

Prerequisites

Create a Microsoft Entra ID application

To create a Microsoft Entra ID application to link to your title database:

  1. Log into the Azure portal. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account.

  2. After logging into the portal, use the search bar to find and select App Registrations. Then, select New registration in the upper left-hand corner.

    ADF New Registrations

  3. In the Register an application window, enter a name for your registration, then select which account types you would like this registration to support. (If you need help deciding, select the Help me choose link, which will open a window with more information.)

    ADF Register App

  4. Select Register. You'll be directed to a page with an overview of your newly registered application. Save the Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID somewhere (you'll need these later).

  5. In the navigation panel on the left-hand side select Certificates & secrets -> New client secret.

    ADF Certificates & Secrets

  6. Enter a description for the secret and select how long you would like it to be valid.

    ADF Add Secret

  7. Select Add, and the new secret will appear below Client secrets. Now make sure to copy the secret key and save it somewhere secure. It's essential that you do this now, since you won't be able to access the secret key once you leave this page.

Connect the Microsoft Entra ID app to your title database

Now we'll connect the Azure app to your title database.

  1. From the Explorer page in GameManager or in Kusto Explorer, run the following command, replacing with your own Title ID and client/tenant ID:

    .add database <titleID> Admin ('aadapp=<app/client ID>;<tenant ID>')

    titleID is case sensitive, so make sure it is in all caps.

    Explorer Add Database

    You can verify that this command was successful by going to the Users page in GameManager. There should be an entry that matches the Client/Tenant ID.

    Note that this will make the Azure app an Admin on your game in PlayFab. If you would like the Azure app to have lesser permissions, assign the Azure app a custom role in PlayFab that only has permissions for the Kusto database. The necessary permissions are:

    • Explorer data & tab.
    • Analytics data read access, to run queries and simple management commands.
    • Analytics data write access, to create/drop tables, alter retention policy, ingest data, purge.

Note

Changing the roles for the application is only possible through Roles -> Edit Role Members Menu if you don't want to assign an email address to your application

Connectivity Custom Role

Next steps

Now that you have created an Azure app and linked it to your title database, follow the steps to connect your tool of choice with Insights: