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Author: EdB-MSFT

articles/azure-monitor/essentials/metrics-store-custom-rest-api.md

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ To submit custom metrics to Azure Monitor, the entity that submits the metric ne
 Once you have created your managed identity or service principal and assigned **Monitoring Metrics Publisher** permissions, you can get an authorization token by using the following methods.
 When requesting a token specify `resource: https://monitoring.azure.com`.
 
-[!INCLUDE [Get a token](../includes/get-a-token.md)]
+[!INCLUDE [Get a token](../includes/get-authentication-token.md)]
 
 Save the access token from the response for use in the following HTTP requests.
 

articles/azure-monitor/essentials/rest-api-walkthrough.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Request submitted using the Azure Monitor API use the Azure Resource Manager aut
 ### Retrieve a token
 Once you've created a service principal, retrieve an access token. Specify `resource=https://management.azure.com` in the token request.
 
-[!INCLUDE [Get a token](../includes/get-a-token.md)]
+[!INCLUDE [Get a token](../includes/get-authentication-token.md)]
 
 
 After authenticating and retrieving a token, use the access token in your Azure Monitor API requests by including the header  `'Authorization: Bearer <access token>'`

articles/azure-monitor/includes/get-a-token.md renamed to articles/azure-monitor/includes/get-authentication-token.md

@@ -6,21 +6,19 @@ ms.author: edbaynash
 author: EdB-MSFT
 ---
 
-Get a token using any of the following 
+Get an authentication token using any of the following methods:
 - CLI
 - REST API
 - SDK
 
-When requesting a token, you need to provide a `resource` parameter. The `resource` parameter is the URL of the resource you want to access. 
+When requesting a token, you must provide a `resource` parameter. The `resource` parameter is the URL of the resource you want to access. 
 
 Resources include:
 - https://management.azure.com
 - https://api.loganalytics.io
 - https://monitoring.azure.com 
 
 
-
-
 ## [REST](#tab/rest)
 
 Use the following REST API call to get a token.
@@ -51,7 +49,7 @@ The response body appears in the following format:
 ```
 
 ## [CLI](#tab/cli)
-
+### Get a token Azure CLI
 To get a token using CLI, you can use the following command
 
 ```bash
@@ -61,10 +59,13 @@ az account get-access-token
 For more information, see [az account get-access-token](/cli/azure/account?view=azure-cli-latest#az-account-get-access-token)
 
 ## [SDK](#tab/SDK)
+### Get a token using the SDKs
+The following code samples show how to get a token using:
++ C# 
++ NodeJS
++ Python
 
-Use the SDK to get a token. The following code samples show how to get a token using C#, NodeJS, and Python.
-
-#### .NET
+#### C#
 
 The following code shows how to get a token using the Azure. Identity library It requires a client ID and client secret to authenticate the request. 
 ```csharp
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ var clientCredential = new ClientCredential("<your apps client ID>", "<your apps
 var result = context.AcquireTokenAsync("https://monitoring.azure.com", clientCredential).Result;
 ```    
 
-Alternatively, you can use the DefaultAzureCredential class to get a token. This uses the default Azure credentials to authenticate the request and doesn't require a client ID or client secret.
+Alternatively, you can use the DefaultAzureCredential class to get a token. This method uses the default Azure credentials to authenticate the request and doesn't require a client ID or client secret.
 
 ```csharp
 var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
@@ -102,17 +103,20 @@ For more information, see [DefaultAzureCredential Class](/dotnet/api/azure.ident
 For information on authentication use JavaScript and NodeJS,  see [How to authenticate JavaScript apps to Azure services using the Azure SDK for JavaScript](/azure/developer/javascript/sdk/authentication/overview)
 
 
-The following code shows how to get a token using the DefaultAzureCredential class. This uses the default Azure credentials to authenticate the request and doesn't require a client ID or client secret.
+The following code shows how to get a token using the DefaultAzureCredential class. This method uses the default Azure credentials to authenticate the request and doesn't require a client ID or client secret.
 
 ```javascript
 const { DefaultAzureCredential } = require("@azure/identity");
 
 const credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
 const accessToken = await credential.getToken("https://management.azure.com/.default");
 ```
-For more information, see [DefaultAzureCredential Class](/javascript/api/@azure/identity/defaultazurecredential?view=azure-node-latest)
 
-Alternatively you can use the ClientSecretCredential class to get a token. This requires a client ID and client secret to authenticate the request.
+You can also use the `InteractiveBrowserCredential` class to get the credentials. This method provides a browser-based authentication experience for users to authenticate with Azure services. 
+
+For more information, see [DefaultAzureCredential Class](/javascript/api/@azure/identity/defaultazurecredential?view=azure-node-latest) and [InteractiveBrowserCredential Class](/javascript/api/@azure/identity/interactivebrowsercredential?view=azure-node-latest)
+
+Alternatively you can use the ClientSecretCredential class to get a token. This method requires a client ID and client secret to authenticate the request.
 
 ```javascript
 const { ClientSecretCredential } = require("@azure/identity");
@@ -127,7 +131,7 @@ For more information, see [ClientSecretCredential Class](/javascript/api/@azure/
 
 #### Python
 
-The following code shows how to get a token using the DefaultAzureCredential class. This uses the default Azure credentials to authenticate the request and doesn't require a client ID or client secret.
+The following code shows how to get a token using the DefaultAzureCredential class. This method uses the default Azure credentials to authenticate the request and doesn't require a client ID or client secret.
 
 ```python
 from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
@@ -136,9 +140,12 @@ credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
 token = credential.get_token('https://management.azure.com/.default')
 print(token.token)
 ```
-For more information, see [DefaultAzureCredential Class](/python/api/azure-identity/azure.identity.defaultazurecredential?view=azure-python)
 
-Alternatively you can use the ClientSecretCredential class to get a token. This requires a client ID and client secret to authenticate the request.
+You can also use the `InteractiveBrowserCredential` class to get the credentials. This method provides a browser-based authentication experience for users to authenticate with Azure services. 
+
+For more information, see [DefaultAzureCredential Class](/python/api/azure-identity/azure.identity.defaultazurecredential?view=azure-python) and [InteractiveBrowserCredential Class](/python/api/azure-identity/azure.identity.interactivebrowsercredential?view=azure-python)
+
+Alternatively you can use the ClientSecretCredential class to get a token. This method requires a client ID and client secret to authenticate the request.
 
 ```python
 from azure.identity import ClientSecretCredential
@@ -148,7 +155,7 @@ credential = ClientSecretCredential (
      client_id="<Client id>",
      client_secret="client secret"
     )
-token =  credential2.get_token("https://management.azure.com/.default")
+token =  credential.get_token("https://management.azure.com/.default")
 print(token.token)
 ```
 

articles/azure-monitor/logs/api/access-api.md

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ In the client credentials flow, the token is used with the Log Analytics endpoin
 
 Use `resource=https://api.loganalytics.azure.com`.
 
-[!INCLUDE [Get a token](../../includes/get-a-token.md)]
+[!INCLUDE [Get a token](../../includes/get-authentication-token.md)]
 
 
 Use the token in requests to the Log Analytics endpoint: