Understanding Network Watcher
Azure Network Watcher acts as a comprehensive network monitoring suite within Azure. It equips users with a toolbox to diagnose, monitor, and visualize network performance metrics and logs. This powerful toolkit extends its reach to various resources within an Azure virtual network, including application gateway traffic, load balancers, and even ExpressRoute circuits.
Azure Network Watcher offers the following capabilities through the included set of diagnostic tools:
- Monitoring
- Network diagnostics tools
- Flow logs
- Traffic analytics
Network Watcher will be automatically enabled for a subscription and is created when a new virtual network is created or updated. There is no charge to enable the Network Watcher service inside a subscription; however, there is a cost to utilizing the tools and services that Network Watcher provides, such as network log data, and charges per Network Watcher check, Connection monitor test, and network...
