azure-network-watcher: Azure Network Watcher Service Not Enabled

2025-08-01 Azure Network Watcher PoC Public

Description

Ensure that Azure Network Watcher service is enabled for all regions in your Microsoft Azure subscription to help monitor and diagnose conditions at the network level.

PoC

id: azure-network-watcher
info:
  name: Azure Network Watcher Service Not Enabled
  author: princechaddha
  severity: high
  description: |
    Ensure that Azure Network Watcher service is enabled for all regions in your Microsoft Azure subscription to help monitor and diagnose conditions at the network level.
  impact: |
    Not having Azure Network Watcher enabled can prevent effective monitoring and diagnosing of network conditions, increasing the risk of network failures going undetected.
  remediation: |
    Enable Azure Network Watcher in all regions of your Microsoft Azure subscription. Refer to Azure documentation on how to enable and manage Azure Network Watcher.
  reference:
    - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview
  tags: cloud,devops,azure,microsoft,network-watcher,azure-cloud-config

self-contained: true
code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az network watcher list --query '[*].{"location":location,"provisioningState":provisioningState,"resourceGroup":resourceGroup}' --output json

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - '[]'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Azure Network Watcher is not enabled in all locations."'
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100b1bf9d1c734788d9531b9e0c5fecda0f147f01dc1646bc0e54ca059c866ad9b90221009991748f37923a08d5536665033279d67912a154055e2b2646b888c74b20b9d9:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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