Leverage Data Collection Rules to Send Performance Counters to Azure Storage Using Bicep

Gijs Reijn
4 min readMay 4, 2024

Azure Monitor Agent is the go-to agent for collecting data from IaaS workloads. The Azure Monitor Agent collects data through data collection rules (DCRs).

DCRs are deployed separately into resource groups and had only two ways of collecting data in specific destinations types.

Figure 1 — Data sources in DCRs

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Gijs Reijn

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