What is the NetworkWatcherRG?

TravisCragg-MSFT 5,686 Microsoft Employee

What is the NetworkWatcherRG? Can I manage the Network Watcher Resource?

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Mike Ubezzi 2,776 Reputation points

2020-05-14T22:32:46.263+00:00

Network Watcher resources are located in the hidden NetworkWatcherRG resource group which is created automatically. For example, the NSG Flow Logs resource is a child resource of Network Watcher and is enabled in the NetworkWatcherRG.

The Network Watcher resource represents the backend service for Network Watcher and is fully managed by Azure. Customers do no need to manage it. Operations like move are not supported on the resource. However, the resource can be deleted.

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JC-S 16 Reputation points

2021-11-04T10:07:47.213+00:00

What happens when I delete the resource group? Will any of my azure functionality be missing?

michelle garza 31 Reputation points

2022-04-13T23:45:28.767+00:00

I accidently deleted the network watcher. Do I need to contact Azure so it can be readded or can I add as a resource group myself?
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Krunoslav Galojlic 11 Reputation points

2020-11-05T10:57:46.453+00:00

Plain and simple. Thank you
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Andrei Kazakou 1 Reputation point

2021-10-01T09:28:33.18+00:00

What about managing this group? If I have policies that required assigning some tags to all resource groups - a creation of that resource group will be declined. Can I create that resource group manually and assign tags? Will it be used for the next deployments?
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TravisCragg-MSFT 5,686 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-10-01T23:15:26.067+00:00

@Andrei Kazakou Yes, that should work without issue. You can add any tags, as long as the name & region exist, it will use that resource group.

Andrei Kazakou 1 Reputation point

2021-10-04T06:51:07.86+00:00

Thank you

Roslin Nive 5 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-11-28T08:19:59.74+00:00

Yes, you can create a policy to add tag values to the existing non- compliance resource by running remediation task or even the newly created resource will add the tag values by policy.
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