azure.azcollection.azure_rm_monitordatacollectionendpoint module – Managed Data Collection Endpoints

ad_user

string

Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.

adfs_authority_url

string

added in azure.azcollection 0.0.1

Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority.

api_profile

string

added in azure.azcollection 0.0.1

Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value of latest is appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack.

Default: "latest"

append_tags

boolean

Use to control if tags field is canonical or just appends to existing tags.

When canonical, any tags not found in the tags parameter will be removed from the object’s metadata.

Choices:

• false
• true ← (default)

auth_source

string

added in azure.azcollection 0.0.1

Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication.

Can also be set via the ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable.

When set to auto (the default) the precedence is module parameters -> env -> credential_file -> cli.

When set to env, the credentials will be read from the environment variables.

When set to credential_file, it will read the profile from ~/.azure/credentials.

When set to cli, the credentials will be sources from the Azure CLI profile. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if more than one is present otherwise the default az cli subscription is used.

When set to msi, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen.

The msi was added in Ansible 2.6.

Choices:

• "auto" ← (default)
• "cli"
• "credential_file"
• "env"
• "msi"

cert_validation_mode

string

added in azure.azcollection 0.0.1

Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use, or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing ignore. Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CERT_VALIDATION environment variable.

Choices:

• "ignore"
• "validate"

client_id

string

Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal or Managed Identity (msi).

Can also be set via the AZURE_CLIENT_ID environment variable.

cloud_environment

string

added in azure.azcollection 0.0.1

For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, AzureChinaCloud, AzureUSGovernment), or a metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT environment variable.

Default: "AzureCloud"

description

string

Description of the data collection endpoint.

disable_instance_discovery

boolean

added in azure.azcollection 2.3.0

Determines whether or not instance discovery is performed when attempting to authenticate. Setting this to true will completely disable both instance discovery and authority validation. This functionality is intended for use in scenarios where the metadata endpoint cannot be reached such as in private clouds or Azure Stack. The process of instance discovery entails retrieving authority metadata from https://login.microsoft.com/ to validate the authority. By setting this to **True**, the validation of the authority is disabled. As a result, it is crucial to ensure that the configured authority host is valid and trustworthy.

Set via credential file profile or the AZURE_DISABLE_INSTANCE_DISCOVERY environment variable.

Choices:

• false ← (default)
• true

kind

string

The kind of the resource.

Choices:

• "Linux"
• "Windows"

location

string

The geo-location where the resource lives.

Default is resource group’s location.

log_mode

string

Parent argument.

log_path

string

Parent argument.

name

string / required

The name of the data collection endpoint.

The name is case insensitive.

network_acls

dictionary

Network access control rules for the endpoints.

public_network_access

string

The configuration to set whether network access from public internet to the endpoints are allowed.

Choices:

• "Enabled"
• "Disabled"
• "SecuredByPerimeter"

oidc_token

string

added in azure.azcollection 3.17.0

Direct OpenID Connect (OIDC) token (JWT) used for workload identity authentication.

This token is exchanged with Azure AD using OIDC federated identity.

Useful in CI systems (for example GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) where an OIDC token is provided directly by the platform.

Can also be set via the AZURE_FEDERATED_TOKEN environment variable.

oidc_token_file_path

path

added in azure.azcollection 3.17.0

Path to a file containing an OpenID Connect (OIDC) token (JWT) used for workload identity authentication.

The file must contain only raw token.

This method is commonly used in platforms that materialize OIDC tokens as files

Can also be set via the AZURE_FEDERATED_TOKEN_FILE environment variable.

password

string

Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.

profile

string

Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.

resource_group

string / required

The name of the resource group in which the data collection endpoint is (if you use name)

secret

string

Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

state

string

State of the data colleciton endpoint.

Set to present to create a new endpoint.

Set to absent to remove a endpoint.

Choices:

• "absent"
• "present" ← (default)

subscription_id

string

Your Azure subscription Id.

tags

dictionary

Dictionary of string:string pairs to assign as metadata to the object.

Metadata tags on the object will be updated with any provided values.

To remove tags set append_tags option to false.

Currently, Azure DNS zones and Traffic Manager services also don’t allow the use of spaces in the tag.

Azure Front Door doesn’t support the use of

Azure Automation and Azure CDN only support 15 tags on resources.

tenant

string

Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

thumbprint

string

added in azure.azcollection 1.14.0

The thumbprint of the private key specified in x509_certificate_path.

Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

Required if x509_certificate_path is defined.

x509_certificate_path

path

added in azure.azcollection 1.14.0

Path to the X509 certificate used to create the service principal in PEM format.

The certificate must be appended to the private key.

Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

datacollectionendpoint

complex

The facts of data collection rule association.

Returned: always

configuration_access

dictionary

The endpoint used by clients to access their configuration.

Returned: always

Sample: {"endpoint": "https://fredendpoint-q7lu.eastus-1.handler.control.monitor.azure.com"}

description

string

Description of the data collection endpoint.

Returned: always

Sample: "Created"

etag

string

Resource entity tag (ETag).

Returned: always

Sample: "3d001f14-0000-0100-0000-68ca270a0000"

id

string

Fully qualified ID of the resource.

Returned: always

Sample: "/subscriptions/xxx-xxx/resourceGroups/v-xisuRG/providers/Microsoft.Insights/dataCollectionEndpoints/fredendpoint"

immutable_id

string

The immutable ID of this data collection endpoint resource.

This property is READ-ONLY.

Returned: always

Sample: "dce-9897a7cde9b54676a1c07ab3ea222768"

kind

string

The kind of the resource.

Returned: always

Sample: "Linux"

location

string

The geo-location where the resource lives.

Returned: always

Sample: "eastus"

logs_ingestion

dictionary

The endpoint used by clients to ingest logs.

Returned: always

Sample: {"endpoint": "https://fredendpoint-q7lu.eastus-1.ingest.monitor.azure.com"}

metrics_ingestion

dictionary

The endpoint used by clients to ingest metrics.

Returned: always

Sample: {"endpoint": "https://fredendpoint-q7lu.eastus-1.metrics.ingest.monitor.azure.com"}

name

string

The name of the resource.

Returned: always

Sample: "testendpoint"

network_acls

dictionary

Network access control rules for the endpoints.

Returned: always

Sample: {"public_network_access": "Enabled"}

provisioning_state

string

The resource provisioning state. This property is READ-ONLY.

Returned: always

Sample: "Succeeded"

system_data

dictionary

Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

Returned: always

Sample: {"created_at": "2025-09-17T03:12:08.743499Z", "created_by": "00867800-0fa3-4d02-8bc8-35edac3a0d32", "created_by_type": "Application", "last_modified_at": "2025-09-17T03:12:08.743499Z", "last_modified_by": "00867800-0fa3-4d02-8bc8-35edac3a0d32", "last_modified_by_type": "Application"}

tags

dictionary

Resource tags.

Returned: always

Sample: {"key1": "value1"}

type

string

The type of the resource.

Returned: always

Sample: "Microsoft.Insights/dataCollectionEndpoints"