Your Credentials

To determine your credentials in Azure: 

• locate your Log Analytics workspace.
• Select Agents management.
• To the right of Workspace ID, select the copy icon, and then paste the ID as the value of the Customer ID variable.
• To the right of Primary Key, select the copy icon, and then paste the ID as the value of the Shared Key variable.

Azure HTTP Data Collector API 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/data-collector-api

Kafka Connect with Azure Log Analytics Sink Connector

https://www.confluent.de/hub/chaitalisagesh/kafka-connect-log-analytics

Log Analytics Agent for Linux

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/agent-linux

Pushes data to Azure Data Collector API.

Logstash

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/connect-logstash

Pushes data to Azure Data Collector API.

"The components for log parsing are different per logging tool. Fluentd uses standard built-in parsers (JSON, regex, csv etc.) and Logstash uses plugins for this. This makes Fluentd favorable over Logstash, because it does not need extra plugins installed, making the architecture more complex and more prone to errors"

Fluent-bit

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/azure

Pushes data to Azure Data Collector API.

References