Modern cloud environments require strong visibility into network activity. As organizations move critical workloads to Azure, traditional monitoring techniques based on physical infrastructure often become harder to implement. Security teams, network engineers, and operations teams still need ways to inspect traffic patterns, analyze anomalies, and troubleshoot complex connectivity scenarios.
Azure Virtual Network TAP introduces a capability designed to support these needs by allowing traffic mirroring from virtual machines inside a virtual network. Instead of inserting inspection tools directly into the production path, the feature allows traffic to be copied and sent to monitoring systems. This approach enables detailed analysis without interfering with application performance or introducing additional points of failure.
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