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Prepare for authentication

Before you configure a Large Language Model connection, you need to get the API key and endpoint URL of your Azure OpenAI account from the Azure portal.

Get the API key

You need the API key and endpoint URL to make API calls to the Azure OpenAI chat model or embedding model.
  1. 1Log in to the Azure portal and open the Azure OpenAI service.
  2. 2Click the name of the Azure OpenAI resource that you want to connect to.
  3. 3On the Overview page, click Explore Azure AI Foundry portal.
  4. 4Under Shared resources, click Deployments.
  5. 5On the Model deployments tab, click the name of the chat or embedding model for which you need the API key and endpoint URL.
  6. 6On the Details tab, copy the key and the endpoint URL.