Azure Network Watcher vs. collectd

Azure Network Watcher is well-suited for cloud environment, it's necessary for the network troubleshooting. It is especially useful in where you have done integration with azure virtual wan and custom routes (udr) to control traffic in a hub & spoke network with Azure firewall. When the traffic is manipulated with udr, the troubleshooting at the routing level becomes important in some cases.

Incentivized

• Monitor endpoints Health for Azure Traffic Manager
• Monitor VM Machine resources
• Deliver reports for IT department

Incentivized

• Security measures can be improved
• Initial Setup process is complex and should be simplified
• User interface can be improved

Incentivized

Azure Network watcher provides various feature that stacks up against other products such as monitoring which include network monitoring and connection monitoring etc. Diagnostic feature which includes connection troubleshoot, VPN troubleshoot etc. Logging feature which includes network traffic analysis and helps in understanding network traffic more efficiently. All these features in azure network watcher make it worth.

Incentivized

• Helped us diagnose IP and Port flow from a DNS integration project resulting in success of the project
• Has helped numerous times analyzing IP Port flow from Resources

Incentivized