Network resource monitoring

In this demonstration, we are going to monitor the network on VMs. For this demonstration, create three Windows Server 2016 datacenter VMs inside one virtual network. We can use these VMs for monitoring.

Before we are able to monitor the network using network resource monitoring, we need to install the Network Watcher agent on the three VMs. After that, we are going to inspect the network traffic.

Installing the Network Watcher agent

To install the Network Watcher agent on a VM in Azure, take the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com/.
2. Open the VM settings, and under Settings, select Extensions, and then click the Add button:

Adding a VM extension...