You have five Azure virtual machines. You have a dedicated Azure Storage account to collect performance data. You need to send the collected data directly to the Azure Storage account. What should you

The Telegraf agent is a third-party agent used for collecting metrics, but it is not the native Azure solution for directly sending performance data to an Azure Storage account from Azure VMs.

The Azure Monitor agent (AMA) is the newer agent for Azure Monitor that collects data from VMs and sends it to a Log Analytics workspace or Azure Monitor Metrics, not typically directly to a raw Azure Storage account for performance data as its primary function.

The Dependency agent is used by VM insights to discover processes and dependencies but does not collect performance metrics for direct ingestion into an Azure Storage account.

The Azure Diagnostics extension (WAD for Windows) is designed specifically to collect monitoring data, including performance counters and event logs, from an Azure virtual machine and then transfer this data directly to an Azure Storage account. This capability directly fulfills the requirement to send collected performance data to a dedicated storage account.