General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights

Azure [Network Watcher](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview) provides network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to increase observability and actionable insights. Network Watcher supports four main scenarios: [Connectivity](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/connection-monitor-overview) Monitoring detects packet loss and latency, built-in health metrics and [topology](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-insights-topology) visualization help to locate issues, [traffic](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/traffic-analytics) monitoring tracks network communication pattern, and [diagnostics](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/connection-troubleshoot-overview) suite enables troubleshooting. Efficient management and monitoring of cloud networks is crucial for peak performance, security, and reliability. The blog explains how the new [topology](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-insights-topology) experience can help you manage and monitor your cloud network infrastructure with enhanced visualization, simplified monitoring, valuable insights and contextual issue localization capabilities. Features that will be available in GA: ### What are some use cases for the network topology experience? **Inventory Management** * Manage inventory across multi subscription, region, and resource group. * Support for Azure networking resources along with VM and VMSS. * Visualization support for [Azure Virtual Network Manager](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-virtual-network-manager-topology-view-now-generally-available/%22%20/l%20%22:~:text=Azure%20Resource%20Topology%20%28ART%29%20allows,by%20your%20AVNM%20connectivity%20configurations.) pre-deploy security configuration available. **Actionable Insights** * Monitoring metrics and signals for all supported resources are included. * Loss/latency connectivity insights from [Connection Monitor](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/connection-monitor-overview) available within the topology. * Bandwidth usage and traffic flow information with [Traffic Analytics i](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/traffic-analytics)ntegration. **Issue Localization** * Integrated diagnostics tools like [Packet Capture](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/packet-capture-overview), [Connection Troubleshoot](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/connection-troubleshoot-overview), [Next Hop](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/next-hop-overview) within the visualization context. * Navigating across hierarchy, users start at global view and can drill down until the [resource view](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-insights) (this view enables you to picture even the most complex resource configurations). * Locate impacted resources easily using smart in-context search function within the topology. [Learn more](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-insights-topology?toc=%2Fazure%2Fazure-monitor%2Ftoc.json&bc=%2Fazure%2Fazure-monitor%2Fbreadcrumb%2Ftoc.json). * Network Watcher * Features * Management * Security * [ Network Watcher](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/network-watcher/)