You are migrating from the deprecated Log Analytics agent (MMA) to the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) on Arc-enabled Linux servers. You must send syslog to WorkspaceA and performance counters to WorkspaceB. How should you configure data routing?
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Correct answer: Create a single Data Collection Rule (DCR) with two destinations (WorkspaceA and WorkspaceB) and route syslog to WorkspaceA and performance data to WorkspaceB; associate the DCR with the Arc-enabled servers..
Why this is the answer
The correct approach is to create a single Data Collection Rule (DCR) because DCRs define what data to collect and where to send it. A single DCR can specify multiple data sources (like syslog and performance counters) and multiple destinations (different Log Analytics workspaces). You can then configure the DCR to route syslog data to WorkspaceA and performance data to WorkspaceB. Associating this DCR with the Arc-enabled servers ensures AMA applies these collection and routing rules. Incorrect options: AMA can send data to multiple workspaces from a single server, making the second option false. Deploying two AMA extensions per machine is unnecessary and not the recommended practice; a single AMA instance handles multiple DCRs. Keeping MMA for syslog is not a migration to AMA and defeats the purpose of the question, which specifies migrating from MMA.
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