Azure Traffic analytics is in Public preview, a solution that provides visibility in the network traffic from users and applications by analyzing the NSG Flow logs across Azure regions.

• Gain Visibility
  • traffic flows across your networks between Azure and Internet, in Azure,  public cloud regions, VNETs and subnets.
  • inter-relationships between critical business services and applications.
  • applications and protocols on your network, without the need for sniffers or dedicated flow collector appliances.
• Secure your Network
  • flows between your VMs and rogue networks.
  • network ports open to the Internet.
  • applications attempting Internet access.
  • anomalous network traffic behavior (e.g. back-end servers attempting connectivity, to servers outside your network etc.)
• Improve performance
  • capacity planning – eliminate issues of over-provisioning or under utilization by monitoring utilization trends of VPN gateways and other services.
  • analyzing in-bound and out-bound flows.
  • understanding application access patterns (e.g. Where are the users located?, Can application latency be reduced by better workload placement?).
  • identification of traffic hotspots.

Find out what’s happening on your cloud!  Check out the documentation and start using Traffic Analytics on your Azure network.