Merge pull request #248532 from v-jbasden/v-jbasden-logs-content-inventory-line-45

Authoring new guidance on the permissions required to use Log Analytics Workspace Insights

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/azure-monitor/logs/log-analytics-workspace-insights-overview.md

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 Log Analytics Workspace Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your workspaces through a unified view of your workspace usage, performance, health, agent, queries, and change log. This article helps you understand how to onboard and use Log Analytics Workspace Insights.
 
+## Permissions required
+
+- You need `Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/read` permissions to the Log Analytics workspace whose insights you want to see, as provided by the [Log Analytics Reader built-in role](./manage-access.md#log-analytics-reader), for example..
+- To run the additional usage queries, you need `*/read` permissions, as provided by the [Log Analytics Reader built-in role](./manage-access.md#log-analytics-reader), for example.
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+
 ## Overview of your Log Analytics workspaces
 
 When you access Log Analytics Workspace Insights through Azure Monitor Insights, the **At scale** perspective is shown. Here you can: