Using azure-native resourcegraph with dashboard

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Using Azure Resource Graph, you can query your Azure resources across multiple subscriptions. This is powerful for inventory management, governance, and gaining insight into your Azure resources at scale. While Azure Resource Graph itself doesn't provide a dashboard, you can use its capabilities to retrieve data that could be visualized on a dashboard in various ways.

Pulumi doesn't have a dedicated 'dashboard' resource for Azure as it does for some other services, as seen with Grafana and Dynatrace in the Registry Results. Typically, creating a dashboard that shows the results of an Azure Resource Graph query would involve a few steps:

1. Using the Azure Resource Graph to query resources.
2. Persisting the results of that query to a storage medium or processing it with an Azure Function.
3. Using third-party services like Grafana, or Azure-native solutions like Azure Dashboard to visualize those results.

Since the direct creation of an Azure dashboard through Pulumi is not currently available as a dedicated resource, I will show you how to perform a query using the 'azure-native' provider in Pulumi, and while I won't be able to render an actual dashboard, I will indicate where and how you would connect the output of the Azure Resource Graph query to a dashboard solution.

Below is a basic Pulumi TypeScript program that performs an Azure Resource Graph query:

```typescript
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as azure_native from "@pulumi/azure-native";

// Run a Resource Graph query
const query = new azure_native.resourcegraph.Query({
    subscriptions: ["your-subscription-id"], // replace with your Azure subscription ID
    query: 'Resources | project name, type | limit 5' // simple query to get resource names and types
});

// The output here could be connected to a dashboard or other visualization tool
export const queryResults = query.then(queryResponse => queryResponse.result);

// To visualize these results, you might create Azure Functions that process
// the query output and create or update dashboard entries in an Azure Dashboard, or send
// the data to a service like Grafana for visualization.
```

This Pulumi program will run the specified Resource Graph query and output the results. In a real-world scenario, you would take these results and use them to populate a dashboard. The `queryResults` export at the end is where you would typically connect to another service or further process the data to visualize it on a dashboard.

The query itself is a simple projection of resource names and types limited to 5 items for brevity, but you can adjust the query based on the Azure Resource Graph query language to fetch the desired data.

Note that to run this Pulumi program, you need to replace `"your-subscription-id"` with your actual Azure subscription ID where you want to execute the query.

To visualize these results, you might:

- Write them to a database or a file in an Azure Storage Account.
- Use an Azure Function to process the results and then send them to a visualization platform like Grafana, or
- Directly use them within native Azure services that offer dashboard capabilities.

Remember, always ensure your Pulumi stack is correctly configured to have access to the required Azure resources with appropriate credentials and permissions.

If you have questions on how to set up the infrastructure to visualize these results on a dashboard, let me know, and I can guide you through that process.