If you are operating within a cloud environment, it is quite obvious for you to expect certain issues and vulnerabilities while you are at work. Well, with the constant advances in the field of technology and the IT industry, we are continuously working towards offering better services to the organizations across the globe. The Network watcher is one such tool from Microsoft Azure that helps you diagnose the most common connection issues alongside several other VPN connectivity troubles. This tool is not only effective when it comes to identifying the issues, but at the same time, it is quite useful in doing a thorough analysis of the issue being raised and thus, fetch the activity log to understand the root cause and carry out the further inspection.
As more and more people have started to deploy the data assets, we can either choose to build out a virtual network that will allow us to set up an on-premise network through the ExpressRoute or VPN. You can either run it independently on the cloud, or have your own virtual network set up. The Network Watcher is an excellent solution when it comes to managing and monitoring the virtual network. It basically comprises of a set of tools and metrics that will analyze the data and further, come up with a feasible figure which will allow you to evaluate the performance and thus, help you derive a conclusion in particular about the same! It monitors, diagnoses and further helps you to gain an insight about your network performance. Also, it works effectively with the log analytics and thus, allows you to fetch a bunch of data about the Azure networking components, virtual network, load balancing features and the public IP addresses.
As more and more people have started to deploy the data assets, we can either choose to build out a virtual network that will allow us to set up an on-premise network through the ExpressRoute or VPN. You can either run it independently on the cloud, or have your own virtual network set up. The Network Watcher is an excellent solution when it comes to managing and monitoring the virtual network. It basically comprises of a set of tools and metrics that will analyze the data and further, come up with a feasible figure which will allow you to evaluate the performance and thus, help you derive a conclusion in particular about the same! It monitors, diagnoses and further helps you to gain an insight about your network performance. Also, it works effectively with the log analytics and thus, allows you to fetch a bunch of data about the Azure networking components, virtual network, load balancing features and the public IP addresses.
What is so special about Azure Network Watcher?
Microsoft Azure Network watcher is an amazing solution that integrates closely with the Azure load balancer, Azure VPN gateway and the Azure virtual network to help you come with a solution that is not just effective, but very much useful as well. This tool helps you to capture the logs and thus, offer a provision for further storage and analysis. It assures you the privilege to establish and monitor the connection between two points so you know how to deal with the potential issues in between two databases, be it a web application or a database instance, or some other! Also, if you are thinking about analyzing the latency time, you will be able to fetch the same from this data.
Advantages of Azure Network Watcher
It allows monitoring of the platform between the on-premises network and that of the Azure either by using a VPN or an ExpressRoute. There are some advanced mechanisms as well that this tool monitors very closely, such as the routing errors and traffic blackholing. Here are a few advantages of the tool listed underneath:
- Monitoring the virtual machine network with the use of flow logs
- Capture the packet data for your VMs remotely
- Diagnose the VPN connectivity related issues
- Automate the network monitoring
- Gather data for auditing and compliance to assure network security
- Identify the issue using detailed logs
- Flexible pricing options without any upfront cost or termination fees
Bottom line:
The Azure Network watcher will give you a better insight about the possible diagnostic causes along with offering you the provision to enable you with the stage to channelize effective communication without any hindrance.
