Azure Network Watcher Review: Is It The Right Network Monitoring Software For Your Team?
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What is Azure Network Watcher?
Network Watcher is the network monitoring software for large networks that enables user to identify, troubleshoot and resolve network problems. With hundreds of customizable triggers, actions and reports, Network Watcher gives user an overview of network activity while allowing to drill down to detailed logs or statistics for any node in seconds.
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Suited for solo users, small teams, SMBs, and enterprise
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Azure Network Watcher was reviewed internally using user feedback, in-house testing, and market research to assess its performance, reliability, and user experience. Learn how we review products and our evaluation process.
Who should consider Azure Network Watcher
- Team types
- Large Enterprises, Medium Business
Why teams choose Azure Network Watcher
Provides real-time network monitoring, diagnostics, and flow logs for visibility into Azure networks.
Connection-troubleshoot and packet-analysis tools make it easy to diagnose and repair connectivity issues.
Easy to set up and automate, with the ability to alert on metrics and trigger automated actions.
Is Azure Network Watcher right for you?
Azure Network Watcher pros and cons
- Azure Network Watcher pros
Provides real-time network monitoring, diagnostics, and flow logs for visibility into Azure networks.
Connection-troubleshoot and packet-analysis tools make it easy to diagnose and repair connectivity issues.
Easy to set up and automate, with the ability to alert on metrics and trigger automated actions.
- Azure Network Watcher cons
The user interface is seen as less friendly than competitors and could use improvement.
Logs can be hard to interpret and issue detection sometimes feels slow.
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Azure Network Watcher reviews and ratings
What buyers like
- Provides real-time network monitoring, diagnostics, and flow logs for visibility into Azure networks.
- Connection-troubleshoot and packet-analysis tools make it easy to diagnose and repair connectivity issues.
- Easy to set up and automate, with the ability to alert on metrics and trigger automated actions.
Common complaints
- The user interface is seen as less friendly than competitors and could use improvement.
- Logs can be hard to interpret and issue detection sometimes feels slow.
What users are saying
JG
Jatin G
12/13/23
"Networking in Azure is easy to understand"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Networking? The documentation from Microsoft is in depth. What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure ...
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AU
Anonymous User
09/22/23
"With Azure Network Watcher, You Can Quickly Diagnose Network Issues"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Networking? Gathers a lot of logs to give us network visibility in real-time. - When used correctly, it ...
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AU
Anonymous User
08/25/21
"Easy to use/configure monitoring"
What do you like best about Azure Network Watcher? Best tool to monitor virtual network on Azure, diagnose and repair health of Infrastructure. Also, ...
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RK
Rakesh K
08/17/21
"Great Tool for monitoring, network traffic watching"
What do you like best about Azure Network Watcher? We can screen, analyze, see measurements, and empower or cripple asset logs. We can screen a ...
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AU
Anonymous User
08/12/21
"Azure Network watcher is a great tool for monitoring and keeping logs"
What do you like best about Azure Network Watcher? Network watcher has monitoring capabilities which enable direct communication at a specific ...
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AU
Anonymous User
08/12/21
"Best monitoring for your VM"
What do you like best about Azure Network Watcher? Love the connection troubleshoot capability where you can analyse all network traffic to and from ...
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What are the features of Azure Network Watcher?
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Frequently Asked Questions About Azure Network Watcher
Common questions buyers ask before choosing Azure Network Watcher.
Azure Network Watcher is a Network Monitoring Software. Azure Network Watcher offers Resource Management, Diagnostic Tools, SLA Monitoring and many more functionalities.
Buyers commonly note the following limitations of Azure Network Watcher: The user interface is seen as less friendly than competitors and could use improvement.; Logs can be hard to interpret and issue detection sometimes feels slow..
Some top alternatives to Azure Network Watcher includes PRTG Network Monitor, Spiceworks Network Monitor, NetBeez, Nagios Network Analyzer and NinjaOne.
Azure Network Watcher offers Subscription pricing model
The starting price is not disclosed by Azure Network Watcher. You can visit Azure Network Watcher pricing page to get the latest pricing.
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About the reviewer
Rajat Gupta is the founder of Spotsaas. Over the past two years, he has reviewed 2,000+ tools across CRM, HR, AI, and finance — applying hands-on product research and a background in commerce and the CFA program to evaluate software through a business and ROI lens. His goal: help teams make software decisions they won't regret.
Disclaimer: This research has been collated from a variety of authoritative sources. We welcome your feedback at [email protected].