Network Watcher should be successfully provisioned

High Azure General networkwatchers-network-watcher-successfully-provi

Applies to

Microsoft.Network/networkWatchers

What CGPulse checks

A resource passes this rule when provisioningState must equal Succeeded. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.

How to fix it

Resolve provisioning to enable network monitoring and diagnostics. In Azure Portal: Network Watcher > Overview > check provisioning state. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview

CLI

az network watcher show --ids "{id}" --query "provisioningState" -o tsv

Bicep

resource networkWatcher 'Microsoft.Network/networkWatchers@2024-01-01' = {{
  name: '{name}'
  location: resourceGroup().location
  properties: {{}}
}}

Terraform

resource "azurerm_network_watcher" "{name}" {
  name                = "{name}"
  resource_group_name = "{rg}"
  location            = var.location
}

Compliance frameworks

Cloud Security: Azure Foundations

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