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Network performance monitoring and diagnostics solution

Network Watcher enables you to monitor and diagnose health and performance of your network. Network Watchers diagnostic and visualisation tools helps you to for example capture packets on a Virtual Machine, validating if an IP flow is allowed or denied. You also can identify where packets will be routed from a VM and gain insights to your all-up network topology.

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Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.

¹Network logs are stored within a storage account and have a retention policy that can be set from one day to 365 days. If a retention policy is not set, the logs are maintained forever. Corresponding charges will apply for storage, Log Analytics, and event hubs respectively.

²Network Watcher Diagnostic Tools and Topology features are billed for the number of Network Diagnostic checks initiated via Azure Portal, PowerShell, CLI, or Rest. For Network Watcher Packet Capture running on a virtual machine scale set, operation on individual instance is considered as a unique check.

³Network Analytics includes DNS, and App Gateway Analytics features. These features are billed for log data ingested into the Azure Log Analytics service.

⁴Connection Monitor tests are now billed for all tests initiated via Azure Portal, PowerShell, CLI, or Rest. For Connection Monitor tests run on a virtual machine scale set, test on an individual instance of the scale set is considered as a unique check.
Feature	Free units included	Price
Network flow logs collected (NSG flow logs)¹	5 GB per month	$- per GB
Virtual network flow logs collected	5 GB per month	$- per GB
Network Diagnostic Tools²	1,000 checks per month	$- per check
Connection Monitor⁴	10 tests per month 0 tests per month	0-10 tests - Included 10-240,010 tests - $- per test per month 240,010-750,010 tests - $- per test per month 750,010-1,000,010 tests - $- per test per month 1,000,010+ tests - $- per test per month
Network Performance Monitor – Service Connectivity Monitor	‐ ‐ Not available	$- per connection per month
Network Performance Monitor – Performance Monitor	10 per connection per month 0 per connection per month	0-10 connections - Included 0-240,000 connections - $- per connection metric per month 10-240,010 connections - $- per connection metric per month 240,000-750,000 connections - $- per connection metric per month 240,010-750,010 connections - $- per connection metric per month 750,000-1,000,000 connections - $- per connection metric per month 750,010-1,000,010 connections - $- per connection metric per month 1,000,000+ connections - $- per connection metric per month 1,000,010+ connections - $- per connection metric per month
Network Analytics³	‐ ‐ Not available	See Azure Monitor Log Analytics pricing
Traffic Analytics	‐ ‐ Not available	Accelerated processing at 10-min intervals: $- per GB-processed Standard processing at 60-min intervals: $- per GB-processed