Azure Network Watcher Description
Utilize Network Watcher to monitor and troubleshoot networking problems without the need to access your virtual machines (VMs) directly. You can initiate packet captures by configuring alerts and obtain real-time performance insights at the packet level. Upon detecting an issue, you have the opportunity to conduct a thorough investigation to enhance your diagnosis. Additionally, delve into your network traffic patterns with the aid of network security group flow logs and virtual network flow logs. The insights garnered from these flow logs are invaluable for collecting data related to compliance, auditing, and overseeing your network security posture. Network Watcher also empowers you to identify and analyze common VPN gateway and connection issues, enabling not only the pinpointing of the problem but also utilizing the comprehensive logs generated for deeper analysis. This comprehensive approach allows you to maintain a robust and secure networking environment.
Azure Network Watcher Alternatives
TotalView offers network monitoring as well as root-cause troubleshooting of problems in plain-English. The solution monitors every device as well as every interface on every device. In addition, TotalView goes deep, collecting 19 error counters, performance, configuration, and connectedness so nothing is outside of it’s view. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. Complex problems can now be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster.
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NetCrunch is commercial, self-hosted, agentless network and IT infrastructure monitoring software for Windows Server. It monitors network devices, servers, virtualization platforms, cloud services, applications, websites, logs, telemetry, and network traffic across distributed environments.
NetCrunch supports 680+ monitoring targets and provides 270+ ready-to-use Monitoring Packs for devices, applications, and operating systems. Policy-based monitoring automatically applies monitoring settings, Monitoring Packs, thresholds, and alerts to matching devices and systems. Licensing is based on monitored nodes and network interfaces rather than individual sensors, checks, or metrics.
NetCrunch provides real-time dashboards and automatic Layer 2 and routing topology maps for visibility into network status and performance. Network traffic analysis supports NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and other flow technologies. Its alerting system supports event correlation, dependency-aware suppression, predictive thresholds, escalation, and 40+ automated response actions, including scripts, notifications, API calls, and integrations with external systems.
Distributed Monitoring Probes extend monitoring to remote and isolated locations. NetCrunch also provides a REST API for integration and automation with external IT management, service management, and operational systems.
NetCrunch is self-hosted on Windows Server and can monitor on-premises, air-gapped, cloud, and hybrid IT environments.
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NetBrain
AI Agents can’t manage your network without context. NetBrain delivers it.
NetBrain provides a proven, safe path to Agentic NetOps, backed by an AI-powered platform informed by network context, real customer outcomes, and enterprise network expertise.
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Obkio
IT teams, MSPs, and network engineers use Obkio to gain complete visibility into network performance, whether it's happening in the office, across a hybrid workforce, or in the cloud. Obkio is a Network Performance Monitoring (NPM), observability, and diagnostics platform that works by deploying lightweight monitoring agents at any location, with no special hardware required. These agents continuously measure latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth, while running Visual Traceroutes to map performance across the full network path.
The platform covers SD-WAN, MPLS, and VoIP/UC monitoring, along with visibility into multi-site and distributed networks. Application performance monitoring (APM) rounds out the picture with HTTP, Web, and Teams-based synthetic tests. A standout feature, Obkio Insight, automates root-cause diagnostics, quickly showing whether a problem sits within the internal network, with an ISP, or with a third-party provider, backed by concrete performance data.
Because it deploys in minutes, Obkio gives teams fast answers instead of raw data to sift through. The result: less time troubleshooting, stronger SLA validation, and clear proof of whether the network performance they're paying for matches what they're actually getting.
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Pricing
Pricing Starts At:
$0.50 per GB
Free Trial:
Yes
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Company Details
Company:
Microsoft
Year Founded:
1975
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/network-watcher
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