You have five Azure VMs and a dedicated Azure Storage account to receive performance data directly. Which component should you install on the VMs to send the collected metrics and logs straight to the storage account?

The Azure Diagnostics extension (WAD) is the correct choice because it's specifically designed to collect monitoring data (metrics and logs) from a Windows Azure VM and transfer it to an Azure Storage account, which directly addresses the scenario. The Azure Monitor agent is used to collect data from VMs and send it to Azure Monitor Logs or Azure Monitor Metrics, not directly to a storage account as the primary destination for raw performance data. The Azure Connected Machine agent (Arc agent) enables hybrid server management but doesn't primarily collect performance data for storage accounts. The Dependency agent collects process dependency data for Azure Monitor but doesn't send general performance metrics to storage. Telegraf is a third-party agent and not an Azure native component for this specific task.