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Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (replaces Azure Security Engineer Associate / AZ-500) SC-500 · Domain 2: Secure storage, databases, and networking
Network Watcher: IP flow verify, effective security rules, VNet flow logs and traffic analytics
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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español
Azure Network Watcher is a regional set of tools for monitoring and diagnosing IaaS networking. It is enabled automatically per region when you create a virtual network. For security engineers, it answers two kinds of question: why is this traffic being allowed or blocked, and what traffic is actually flowing?
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