Your Cribl login password is the UUID of the Azure VM. There are three ways to retrieve it, depending on your access.
## Method 1 — From inside the VM (via SSH), using dmidecode
If you can SSH into the instance, run:
```bash
sudo dmidecode | grep UUID
```The value returned is your VM's UUID.
## Method 2 — From inside the VM, using the Azure Instance Metadata Service
Alternatively, from within the instance, run:
```bash
curl -H Metadata:true "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/compute/vmId?api-version=2025-04-07&format=text"
```This returns the same UUID without needing `sudo` or `dmidecode`.
## Method 3 — If you cannot SSH in, use Azure Run Command
From the Azure Portal:
1. Navigate to your VM.
2. In the left-hand menu, go to Operations → Run command.
3. Select RunShellScript.
4. Enter and run:
```bash
sudo dmidecode | grep UUID
```5. The output will contain the UUID.
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Use that UUID as the password to log in to Cribl.