Network Watcher

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Network Watcher is a regional service that enables you to monitor and diagnose conditions at a network scenario level in, to, and from Azure. Network diagnostic and visualization tools available with Network Watcher help you understand, diagnose, and gain insights to your network in Azure.

Getting Started

Azure Network Watcher

7/14/2017, Video, 0:13:23

Matt Reat gives Scott Hanselman an overview of the new Network Watcher service and some of its features. Azure Network Watcher is Network Monitoring and Diagnostic service...
Gain visibility into network performance and availability with network monitoring solutions in Azure

9/29/2017, Video, 0:42:19

As workloads are hosted across clouds and enterprise datacenters, connectivity between the workloads and user locations is essential to delivering an optimal application...
Introducing Azure Network Watcher

5/10/2017, Video, 0:23:42

Explore solution, architectural, and programmatic experiences in building and enhancing network monitoring capabilities in Microsoft Azure. Use common open source tools with a...
Azure networking for developers

5/4/2017, Video, 0:58:03

In this keynote session, come learn how to build, deploy, scale, and monitor large, global web applications in Microsoft Azure leveraging the full Azure networking stack. In...

Latest Content

Date	Title
11/29/2018	11/29/2018 Episode 256 - Living in a Serverless world Azure Podcast Cynthia, Cale and Evan have a stirring discussion on the use-cases for Serverless computing and Azure Functions. They dive into scenarios when it is a good idea to use them and when it is...
11/16/2018	11/16/2018 Enhancements to NSG flow logs for Azure Network Watcher Service Updates Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) are available in the West Central US region. They include per-flow throughput statistics.
11/13/2018	11/13/2018 Azure Network Watcher enabled by default for subscriptions that contain virtual networks Service Updates We’re rolling out changes to enable Network Watcher by default for subscriptions that contain a virtual network. This will simplify and improve your network troubleshooting experience.
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Built-in not bolted on - securing your Azure resources in practice - THR3064 YT: Ignite [0:19:59] In this session you will learn how to protect, detect and respond to all types of threats in your Azure environment with help from tools and features such as Microsoft Azure Security Center,...
7/25/2018	7/25/2018 Project FlashCast – upload and consume blobs simultaneously An offhand comment by my business counterpart went something like this: "the partner wants to be able to upload an asset to the cloud and start processing it immediately rather than waiting for...
5/17/2018	5/17/2018 New Azure Network Watcher integrations and Network Security Group Flow Logging updates Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Network Watcher provides you the ability to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network in Azure.
3/18/2018	3/18/2018 Azure Release Update January 2018 · General availability: Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage · .NET Core 2.0 support for App Service on Linux · General availability: Azure Network...
2/21/2018	2/21/2018 Networking Features Recently Made Generally Available in Azure Government The Azure Government team continually strives to bring the latest Azure platform features to Azure Government. In this post I highlight networking features that have recently been made generally...
2/19/2018	2/19/2018 Azure Update January 2018 Jan 31 General availability: Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage Jan 30 .NET Core 2.0 support for App Service on Linux Jan 29 General availability: Azure Network...
2/1/2018	2/1/2018 Episode 214 - Functions Microservices Azure Podcast Nir Mashkowski, Product Management Director for various Azure PaaS services, talks to us about his favorite - Functions! He shares his thoughts around using Functions as a 'Practical...
1/29/2018	1/29/2018 Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot now generally available Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot, previously in preview as Connectivity Check, is making general availability sporting a new name. Connection Troubleshoot, part of our Network Watcher…
10/12/2017	10/12/2017 Monitoring Azure Resources – Tools and Technology As you think about building applications in Azure, or migrating VMs to Azure, one of the common first thoughts you might have is ‘How do my monitoring activities change once I’ve moved to...

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Network Watcher Documentation

1. Overview
     1.1. About Network Watcher
2. Quickstarts
     2.1. Diagnose VM traffic filter problem - Portal
     2.2. Diagnose VM traffic filter problem - PowerShell
     2.3. Diagnose VM traffic filter problem - Azure CLI
3. Tutorials
     3.1. Diagnose a VM routing problem
     3.2. Monitor communication between VMs
     3.3. Diagnose a communication problem between networks
     3.4. Log VM network traffic
4. Concepts
     4.1. Diagnose VM network traffic filter problems
     4.2. Diagnose VM routing problems
     4.3. Diagnose outbound VM communication problems
     4.4. Troubleshoot VPN connectivity problems
     4.5. Variable packet capture
     4.6. Network security group flow logging
     4.7. Network security group view
     4.8. Role-based access control permissions
5. How-to guides
     5.1. Configure Network Watcher
     5.2. Diagnose VM network problems
          5.2.1. Install VM extension
               5.2.1.1. Windows
               5.2.1.2. Linux
          5.2.2. Diagnose a routing problem
               5.2.2.1. Azure PowerShell
               5.2.2.2. Azure CLI
          5.2.3. Diagnose outbound connection problems
               5.2.3.1. Azure portal
               5.2.3.2. Azure PowerShell
               5.2.3.3. Azure CLI
               5.2.3.4. REST
          5.2.4. Capture and analyze packets
               5.2.4.1. Manage a packet capture
                    5.2.4.1.1. Azure portal
                    5.2.4.1.2. Azure PowerShell
                    5.2.4.1.3. Azure CLI
                    5.2.4.1.4. REST
               5.2.4.2. Analyze a packet capture
                    5.2.4.2.1. Find anomalies
                    5.2.4.2.2. Proactive network monitoring with Azure Functions
                    5.2.4.2.3. Perform intrusion detection using open source tools
                    5.2.4.2.4. Visualize network traffic patterns using open source tools
     5.3. Work with network security groups
          5.3.1. Configure NSG flow logs
               5.3.1.1. Azure PowerShell
               5.3.1.2. Azure CLI
               5.3.1.3. REST
          5.3.2. Analyze NSG flow logs
               5.3.2.1. Read NSG flow logs
               5.3.2.2. Use traffic analytics
                    5.3.2.2.1. Frequently asked questions
               5.3.2.3. Use Power BI
               5.3.2.4. Use Elastic Stack
               5.3.2.5. Use Grafana
               5.3.2.6. Use Graylog
          5.3.3. View network security groups
               5.3.3.1. Azure PowerShell
               5.3.3.2. Azure CLI
               5.3.3.3. REST
          5.3.4. Perform compliance and audit your network
     5.4. Diagnose VPN gateway and connections
          5.4.1. Troubleshoot
               5.4.1.1. Azure PowerShell
               5.4.1.2. Azure CLI
               5.4.1.3. REST
          5.4.2. Monitor VPN gateway with Azure Automation
          5.4.3. Diagnose on-premises connectivity via VPN gateway
     5.5. View network topology
     5.6. Determine relative latency between a location and Azure region
     5.7. Monitor network performance
6. Reference
     6.1. Azure CLI
     6.2. Azure PowerShell
     6.3. Java
     6.4. Ruby
     6.5. Python
     6.6. .NET
     6.7. Node.js
     6.8. REST
7. Resources
     7.1. Azure Roadmap
     7.2. MSDN forum
     7.3. Pricing
     7.4. Service updates
     7.5. SLA
     7.6. Stack Overflow

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Date	Title	Length
10/2/2018	Built-in not bolted on - securing your Azure resources in practice - THR3064 YT: Ignite In this session you will learn how to protect, detect and respond to all types of threats in your Azure environment with help from tools and features such as Microsoft Azure Security Center, Network Watcher, WAF, and Just in Time...	0:19:59
10/11/2017	Gain visibility into network performance and availability with network monitoring solutions in Azure As workloads are hosted across clouds and enterprise datacenters, connectivity between the workloads and user locations is essential to delivering an optimal application experience to the end-users. Troubleshooting connectivity across...	0:23:42
9/29/2017	Gain visibility into network performance and availability with network monitoring solutions in Azure YT: Ignite As workloads are hosted across clouds and enterprise datacenters, connectivity between the workloads and user locations is essential to delivering an optimal application experience to the end-users. Troubleshooting connectivity across...	0:42:19
7/14/2017	Azure Network Watcher Azure Friday Matt Reat gives Scott Hanselman an overview of the new Network Watcher service and some of its features. Azure Network Watcher is Network Monitoring and Diagnostic service that recently became generally available in Azure Public...	0:13:23
5/26/2017	Azure Networking New Features Demo Snapshot YT: Microsoft Azure Narayan Annamalai, Product Manager for Azure Virtual Networking is paying us a visit for a chat around the nature of cloud networking, security and container networking, showing off a few cool new features of Azure networking. We will...	0:20:31
5/20/2017	Sneak Peak: Network Watcher Connectivity and Machine Learning Integration Build 2017 Today Matt Reat and Michelle Liu from Azure Networking give a sneak peak of some exciting new tooling coming soon to Azure Network Watcher. Matt demos the upcoming Check Connectivity tool & Michelle discusses anomaly detection using...	0:17:56
5/10/2017	Introducing Azure Network Watcher Build 2017 Explore solution, architectural, and programmatic experiences in building and enhancing network monitoring capabilities in Microsoft Azure. Use common open source tools with a combination of Azure services to build powerful solutions.	0:23:42
5/8/2017	Cloud Tech 10 - 8th May 2017 CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure? Got 10 minutes to spare? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. This week I cover: 00:20 - General availability of the Azure Network...	0:05:11
5/4/2017	Azure networking for developers Build 2017 In this keynote session, come learn how to build, deploy, scale, and monitor large, global web applications in Microsoft Azure leveraging the full Azure networking stack. In this session we detail how to leverage Azure networking...	0:58:03
3/8/2017	Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Network Watcher part two Tuesdays with Corey Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team is solo this week - Making up for the fact that RICK got a little heavy handed with the editing of the last episode on network watcher. See all the...	0:07:45

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