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title: "Getting started with Managed Cloud Containers"
slug: "getting-started-with-managed-cloud-containers"
abstract: "Access resources provided by Managed Cloud Containers including your XM or XP environment, analytics, and Solr monitoring."
---
# Getting started with Managed Cloud Containers

This topic describes how to access resources provided by Managed Cloud Premium Containers.

## Access services and credentials

When you have a deployment of Managed Cloud Containers, you can access the resources using services URLs and credentials from Azure Key Vault.

To view the secrets:

1. In the Azure portal, navigate to the Key Vault resource. Go to resource group `{infrastructure_id}` and keyvault `{infrastructure_id}kvt`.

    You can find the infrastructure_id in the Sitecore response to your *request environment* ticket in [Sitecore Support & Self-Service Portal](https://support.sitecore.com/):

    ![Example of a response to a request environment ticket.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/105/managed-cloud/images/MCC-infrastructureID.png)

2. Request access to the Azure Key Vault for your account. To do this, you must be a System admin persona user. You can request to be added as a System admin engineer persona by adding a *Get Access (User)* service request in Sitecore Support & Self-Service Portal.
3. To view the secrets, go to **Settings** and click **Secrets**.

## Access Sitecore

To access Sitecore Content Management:

1. Go to Azure Key Vault, and copy the following values:
    - `sitecore-cm-host-name`
    - `sitecore-admin-username`
    - `secret sitecore-admin-password`
2. In a browser, enter: `https://{sitecore-cm-host-name}/sitecore/`.
3. On the login page, use the `sitecore-admin-username` and `sitecore-admin-password` values.

## Access Kibana

> [!note]
> You must be a System admin persona user to access Kibana.

Kibana is an open-source data visualization tool used for log analytics. You can use Kibana to see the Managed Cloud containers logs.

To access the Kibana instance:

1. Go to Azure Key Vault, and copy the following values:
    - `logging-kibana-address`
    - `logging-elasticsearch-admin-username`
    - `logging-elasticsearch-admin-password`
2. In a browser, enter: `//{logging-kibana-address}`.
3. On the login page, use the `logging-elasticsearch-admin-username` and `logging-elasticsearch-admin-password` values.
4. Go to Kibana, and click **Discover** to see the logs from Managed Cloud Containers.

## Access Grafana

> [!note]
> You must be a System admin persona user to access Grafana. Use your account associated with environment.

Grafana is open-source visualization and analytics software that lets you query and visualize your time-series database data. You can use Grafana to view the [Managed Cloud Containers metrics dashboards](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/102/managed-cloud/import-and-export-your-grafana-dashboards.html).

To access the Grafana instance:

1. Go to Azure Key Vault, and take the following value:
    - `grafana-host-name`
2. In a browser, enter `https://{grafana-host-name}`
3. To find the Managed Cloud Containers metrics dashboards, click **Dashboard**.

## Access Searchstax Solr instance

> [!note]
> You must be a System admin persona user to access credentials for SearchStax from KeyVault.

Searchstax helps you to manage, monitor, and scale the Apache Solr search engine in public and private cloud environments.

To access the Searchstax Solr instance:

1. Go to the Azure Key Vault and copy the following value:
    - `external-solr-endpoint`

        The connection string is represented in the following format: `https://user:password@{solr-url}/solrcloud=true`

        Copy the user and password values.

2. In a browser, enter the `external-solr-endpoint` value but replace `solrcloud=true` with a trailing slash.
3. Enter the user and password that you copied earlier.

    ![Access Searchstax Solr instance.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/105/managed-cloud/images/MCC-solrsearch.png)

## Access Azure DevOps

To access Azure DevOps:

1. Go to `https://dev.azure.com` and log in.
2. Go to the organization `{infrastructure_id}` and click the project `{infrastructure_id}`.