Creating Azure App Insights using REST API fails requires ROLE - azure

Question

I am generating API Key for an App Insight. I am using the URL
"https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{resourceName}/ApiKeys"
I don't have any clear documentation and I found this from the MS SDK:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/master/sdk/applicationinsights/Microsoft.Azure.Management.ApplicationInsights/src/Generated/APIKeysOperations.cs
However, when I try to generate by mentioning a "name", an error comes in response:
{
"code": "The API Key needs to have a Role",
"message": "The API Key needs to have a Role",
"innererror": {
"diagnosticcontext": "e1f66da1-9247-459e-a519-6426fa1449d1",
"time": "2019-09-20T07:48:20.2634617Z"
}
}
My POST body is as following:
{
"name": "asimplekeyname"
}
Please help if someone has used this specific API.

Answer 1

You need to include the following properties in the body.
{
"name":"test3",
"linkedReadProperties":[
"/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name>/providers/microsoft.insights/components/<appinsight-name>/api",
"/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name>/providers/microsoft.insights/components/<appinsight-name>/agentconfig"
],
"linkedWriteProperties":[
"/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name>/providers/microsoft.insights/components/<appinsight-name>/annotations"
]
}
The three properties correspond the ones in the portal -> your appinsight -> API Access -> Create API key.
api - Read telemetry
agentconfig - Authenticate SDK control channel
annotations - Write annotations
You need to select at least one of them, inculde in the request body.
For example, you just select the first one as below.
The body should be:
{
"name":"test3",
"linkedReadProperties":[
"/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name>/providers/microsoft.insights/components/<appinsight-name>/api"
],
"linkedWriteProperties":[]
}