Lets you push your own data into Log Analytics: requests go to a data collection endpoint, and a data collection rule decides how it lands in the workspace.
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Terms in this definition
- Real-time streaming semantic model
Covers live-fed push, streaming and PubNub models, plus streaming dashboard tiles. Microsoft now steers people towards Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric, as these are being retired and new ones can only be made until 31 October 2027.
- Dedicated cluster
To encrypt Azure Monitor Logs with your own keys, the Log Analytics workspace must be linked to this cluster tier. Setting a CMK on a storage account gives Log Analytics no such protection.
- Data collection endpoint
Where data sent through the Logs Ingestion API arrives; adding it to an Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) keeps ingestion private.
- Data collection rule
Rule in Azure Monitor specifying what the Azure Monitor Agent or Logs Ingestion API gathers (XPath event filters, for example), any transformation applied, and the destination.
- Workspace
Teams in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric collaborate in this folder-style container, which groups items such as reports, semantic models and lakehouses, controls who can access them and is assigned a capacity.
Related terms
- Monitoring Metrics Publisher
If an app or identity sends data via the Logs ingestion API, give it this Azure role on the data collection rule; it provides the Microsoft.Insights/Telemetry/Write permission.