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title: "[PowerShell] Step 3: Configure Permissions"
canonical: "https://cloudmonitor.ai/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-step-3-configure-permissions/"
description: "Azure PowerShell automation for Step 3: assign the specific permissions CloudMonitor needs to monitor your subscription, view billing info, and receive cost data."
---

Now, we need to configure specific permissions to monitor your chosen Azure subscription, access and view billing information, and receive cost data.

  

This step involves 3 parts as outlined below.

  

-   [Part 1. Configure your Service Principal to Monitor Subscriptions](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-configure-your-service-principal-monitor-subscriptions/)
-   [Part 2. Configure CloudMonitor Service Principal to allow access and view Billing Information](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-allow-cloudmonitor-access-view-billing-information/)
-   [Part 3. Configuring Storage for CloudMonitor to schedule Exports](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-configuring-storage-cloudmonitor-schedule-exports/)

  

  

  

**Index:**

-   [Overview](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-instructions-installing-cloudmonitor-start-here/)
-   [Step 1: Download the CloudMonitor Analytics Engine in Azure](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-step-1-download-cloudmonitor-analytics-engine-azure/)
-   [Step 2: Configure Synapse](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-step-2-configure-azure-synapse/)
-   Step 3: This article 
    -   [Part 1: Configure your Service Principal to Monitor Subscriptions](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-configure-your-service-principal-monitor-subscriptions/)
    -   [Part 2: Configure CloudMonitor Service Principal to allow access and view Billing Information](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-allow-cloudmonitor-access-view-billing-information/)
    -   [Part 3: Configuring Storage for CloudMonitor to Schedule Exports](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-configuring-storage-cloudmonitor-schedule-exports/)
-   [Step 4: Raise a Support Ticket](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-step-4-raise-support-ticket/)
-   [Step 5: Download and Connect Power BI to the CloudMonitor Analytics Engine](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-step-5-download-connect-power-bi-cloudmonitor-analytics-engine/)
-   [Step 6: Configure the Admin App, Cost Groups and Budgets](/docs/installing-cloudmonitor/powershell-step-6-configuring-service-principal-admin-app-access/)