Missing ingestionEndpoint on data collection rule

Question

I am trying to upload logs to a log analysis workspace by following your tutorial. I am currently stuck at the Create data collection rule section because the documentation is wrong and/or outdated.

Because your documentation says that it's an option, I would prefer not to create a DCE and instead send logs directly to the DCR (via the DCR endpoint).

Problem 1: Wrong deployment template code

I am pretty sure your documentation accidentally got the template code mixed up. The code in the "DCR endpoint" tab should instead be in the "DCE" tab and vice versa. A DCR endpoint is not supposed to need a data collection endpoint ID.

Screenshot 1: the DCR endpoint isn't supposed to have an endpointResourceId

Screenshot 2: the "DCE" template is supposed to have the dataCollectionEndpointId instead

Problem 2: Wrong template schema

So I tried deploying the code in the "DCE" tab but Azure complained that the template schema version is not supported.

Problem 3: No ingestion endpoint

To get around that problem, I changed the schema version to 2019-08-01 and managed to deploy my DCR successfully. Now the problem is that when I look at the JSON view of the created DCR, then there is no logsIngestion endpoint there. I suspect this might have happened because I changed the template schema version, but I'm not sure how to get around this problem.

Answer 1

@42726446 - Welcome to Microsoft Q&A and thanks for reaching out to us.

We have fixed all the above-mentioned doc errors and bugs that are reported here. Hoping that the issue must be resolved by now.

Please see the attached doc for reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/tutorial-logs-ingestion-api?tabs=dcr

Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

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