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Network Watcher is, I like to describe it as a Swiss Army knife.

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It's a collection of tools that help you visualize and

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troubleshoot hybrid cloud networking.

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Now predominantly, these tools are focused on Azure virtual machines.

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We can, in the next hop module that you see on this screenshot, we

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can model, we can dial up a VM in the interface and then model a

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connection to some destination IP address. That IP can be within

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Azure, it can be outside of Azure,

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it can be a public or private IP address, and the tool will

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tell you whether you're using Azure system routing or

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user‑defined routing and that kind of stuff.

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So you'll find that each Network Watcher tool has a defined use case behind it.

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I don't want you to fall into the trap of thinking that you're going to

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have to juggle all these simultaneous SSH and RDP connections when

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you're troubleshooting network connectivity,

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let's say, between Azure VMs or on‑prem VMs and Azure VMs.

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Network Watcher can be awfully helpful to serve as an

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intermediary to help you visualize some of these connection

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paths. And not just for troubleshooting,

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but I also submit for performance tuning and optimization and even

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security, you'll find these Network Watcher tools are useful.

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I have an entire course in the Pluralsight library on Network

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Watcher. It's a little bit on the old side, honestly, but it may still be worthwhile you looking at.