Program Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Aug 12, 2025
The purpose of using Azure Network Watcher is to observe the network flow logs during any kind of troubleshooting. If there is any performance issue or latency issue over the network, we check the flow logs from Azure Network Watcher. It provides good traffic analytics and flow logs, giving substantial log information about IP traffic, including the flow direction of traffic and amount of packets which are wasted or reaching destination. This helps in understanding what is happening with traffic analytics in terms of monitoring the flow log. When doing VPN work which enables troubleshooting your network gateway, such as having a VPN from non-Azure entity towards Azure and encountering an issue within that network, you can determine whether the issue is from the Azure level or from another source outside of Azure. It helps to monitor the security rules. If you have used network service groups on your subnets or network interfaces and want to troubleshoot whether they are working properly in terms of allow port or deny port, you can find it out from Azure Network Watcher. The main use cases include NSG diagnostics, IP flow verification, traffic analytics verification, and troubleshooting VPN traffic.
We use Network Watcher for the troubleshooting purposes. The rest of the networking solutions, such as Network Security Groups for ACLs and site-to-site VPNs, are also included. The VPN Gateway is mostly used for those kinds of solutions.
Sr Devops Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jan 10, 2023
We are using Azure Network Watcher to monitor logs or conditions in the cloud services. The main purpose is to monitor the logs. Once the services are deployed to the cloud, we will primarily check for any log failures or diagnose any issues with the services we have implemented. Additionally, we will enable logs for virtual networks, specifically for virtual machines where we create the services. By enabling these logs, we will be able to closely monitor for any log failures.
My primary use case is for troubleshooting some traffic between BMs for example, or from on-prem to the cloud. Because typically in my organization we have many layers of traffic and many energies.
Sr IT Engineer / Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Sep 1, 2021
Network Watcher allows you to see the logs to see what's going in and what's going out. You have got to set it up to see that, however, I haven't played much with it. That's why I was looking for something more granular, something that I'm more used to, like the FortiGate Firewall.
We use this solution for traffic monitoring. For example, when you want to see requests or inspect packets within your cloud network, to see how the traffic is flowing, or how the traffic and the packets are being transmitted from one host to another, and from one source or resource to another.
Azure Network Watcher is a comprehensive network monitoring and diagnostic service offered by Microsoft Azure. It provides a range of tools and capabilities to help users monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into their Azure network infrastructure. With Network Watcher, users can capture and analyze network traffic, monitor network performance, troubleshoot connectivity issues, and gain visibility into network topology. It also offers features like packet capture, flow logs, connection...
The purpose of using Azure Network Watcher is to observe the network flow logs during any kind of troubleshooting. If there is any performance issue or latency issue over the network, we check the flow logs from Azure Network Watcher. It provides good traffic analytics and flow logs, giving substantial log information about IP traffic, including the flow direction of traffic and amount of packets which are wasted or reaching destination. This helps in understanding what is happening with traffic analytics in terms of monitoring the flow log. When doing VPN work which enables troubleshooting your network gateway, such as having a VPN from non-Azure entity towards Azure and encountering an issue within that network, you can determine whether the issue is from the Azure level or from another source outside of Azure. It helps to monitor the security rules. If you have used network service groups on your subnets or network interfaces and want to troubleshoot whether they are working properly in terms of allow port or deny port, you can find it out from Azure Network Watcher. The main use cases include NSG diagnostics, IP flow verification, traffic analytics verification, and troubleshooting VPN traffic.
We use Network Watcher for the troubleshooting purposes. The rest of the networking solutions, such as Network Security Groups for ACLs and site-to-site VPNs, are also included. The VPN Gateway is mostly used for those kinds of solutions.
Our use case includes logs, mainly.
We use the solution to monitor network services. It helps to capture any network issues.
We are using Azure Network Watcher to monitor logs or conditions in the cloud services. The main purpose is to monitor the logs. Once the services are deployed to the cloud, we will primarily check for any log failures or diagnose any issues with the services we have implemented. Additionally, we will enable logs for virtual networks, specifically for virtual machines where we create the services. By enabling these logs, we will be able to closely monitor for any log failures.
My primary use case is for troubleshooting some traffic between BMs for example, or from on-prem to the cloud. Because typically in my organization we have many layers of traffic and many energies.
We are using Azure Network Watcher for remote access security.
I'm a cybersecurity consultant working for government agencies and we are Microsoft golden partners.
Network Watcher allows you to see the logs to see what's going in and what's going out. You have got to set it up to see that, however, I haven't played much with it. That's why I was looking for something more granular, something that I'm more used to, like the FortiGate Firewall.
We use this solution for traffic monitoring. For example, when you want to see requests or inspect packets within your cloud network, to see how the traffic is flowing, or how the traffic and the packets are being transmitted from one host to another, and from one source or resource to another.