Azure Network Watcher Reviews & Insights

It is used for troubleshooting Azure Cloud related Network issue. Useful tools such as Topology, Connection Monitor, Network Performance Monitor and Next Hop are extremely beneficial. It has helped us with diagnosing specific issues related to Network. We use this for our entire Azure Tenant Environment and also for some On-premise Connectivity such as Express Route Monitoring.

For use of the Azure Cloud Network, Azure Network Watcher is a must. The component Traffic Analytics is specifically helpful and is a great tool to use analyze your network IPs, Ports, Flow, and Logs. When you need more data about your network, Azure Network Watcher removes the guess work with data that you can analyze.

Currently, we are using the Azure Network Watcher to capture packet data from the virtual systems and monitor the traffic and performance of Load balancers in the Cloud.

Monitor endpoints Health for Azure Traffic Manager is always well done by Azure Network Watcher. For some specific Virtual appliance machines, the Azure Network Watcher is not suitable due to interoperability with the vendor.

We are using Azure Network Watcher for various purpose in our organization, we have multiple on-premises official websites in various locations hence using Azure Network watcher to monitor, view metrics, setting up alerts, repairing health of IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) products like load balancer, virtual machines etc. Azure Network watcher has a wide scope in networking area.

Azure Network Watcher is well suited to monitor or diagnose logs for azure virtual network, managing connection/relationship between virtual networks. Diagnose network traffic, network traffic etc. Overall, it is appropriate to use in monitoring, diagnostic and logging activities for resources in azure virtual network. It is mainly used in infrastructure as a service component.

I used it to monitor, diagnose and view metrics for resources in Azure Network Watcher's virtual network (Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Application Gateways, Load balancers, etc..). The most important features that I used are: IP flow to verify if a packet is allowed/denied to/from a VM and next-hop to monitor traffic from between the VM and destination based on the effective routes associated with a network interface nic.

Azure Network Watcher is well-suited for cloud environment, it's necessary for the network troubleshooting. It is especially useful in where you have done integration with azure virtual wan and custom routes (udr) to control traffic in a hub & spoke network with Azure firewall. When the traffic is manipulated with udr, the troubleshooting at the routing level becomes important in some cases.