Continuously probes network paths from sources to destinations in Network Watcher. Each monitor accepts source VMs only from its own region, so multiple source regions mean multiple monitors.
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Terms in this definition
- Network Watcher
Collection of Azure network troubleshooting tools: next hop, IP flow verify, packet capture, Connection Monitor and flow logs, among others.
- RAMP
The approach used by the Cloud Adoption Framework's Manage methodology to structure cloud operations: teams, duties, processes and tools. It divides what the central platform handles from what each workload handles.
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
- region
A provider-defined grouping in VCF Automation of Supervisors that all share one NSX Local Manager; tenants consume its compute, storage and memory via quotas set per region.
Related terms
- ChecksFailedPercent
One of the Connection Monitor metrics, together with
RoundTripTimeMsand Test Result, on which Azure Monitor metric alerts can trigger, for instance when a site-to-site VPN goes down. - Network Performance Monitor
Former network monitoring solution that relied on the Log Analytics agent; it has been retired in favour of Connection Monitor.
- Network Watcher Agent extension
Packet capture and Connection Monitor both depend on this extension, named
AzureNetworkWatcherExtension. Only Azure VMs and Azure Arc-enabled servers can run it. - RTT
Short for round-trip time. Connection Monitor reports this latency measure as a minimum, an average and a maximum.
- Test group
In Connection Monitor, a bundle of sources, destinations and test configurations using TCP, ICMP or HTTP. Test groups live in a monitor, with one monitor per source region.