Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question

Connection Monitor, a feature of Azure Network Watcher, is the correct tool for this scenario. It is specifically designed to provide unified, end-to-end connectivity monitoring. It can measure latency and packet loss between Azure resources (like VMs in different regions), on-premises sites, and external endpoints. Its topology visualization helps identify hops and bottlenecks causing performance degradation.

Azure Monitor Metrics collects and analyzes performance metrics but lacks the detailed, path-aware network performance monitoring and topology visualization needed for this specific troubleshooting scenario. Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer used to direct client requests to optimal endpoints; it does not provide in-depth network performance monitoring between endpoints. Network Security Group (NSG) Flow Logs record IP traffic flowing through an NSG, which is useful for traffic analysis and security auditing, but not for actively monitoring performance metrics like latency and packet loss between specific endpoints.