Network Watchers - Get Troubleshooting

Service:: Network Watcher

API Version:: 2025-01-01

Initiate troubleshooting on a specified resource.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkWatchers/{networkWatcherName}/troubleshoot?api-version=2025-01-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
networkWatcherName	path	True	string	The name of the network watcher resource.
resourceGroupName	path	True	string	The name of the resource group.
subscriptionId	path	True	string	The subscription credentials which uniquely identify the Microsoft Azure subscription. The subscription ID forms part of the URI for every service call.
api-version	query	True	string	Client API version.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
properties.storageId	True	string	The ID for the storage account to save the troubleshoot result.
properties.storagePath	True	string	The path to the blob to save the troubleshoot result in.
targetResourceId	True	string	The target resource to troubleshoot.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	TroubleshootingResult	Successful troubleshooting request.
202 Accepted	TroubleshootingResult	Accepted get troubleshooting request.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Get troubleshooting

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkWatchers/nw1/troubleshoot?api-version=2025-01-01

{
  "targetResourceId": "/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg2/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vm1",
  "properties": {
    "storageId": "/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/st1",
    "storagePath": "https://st1.blob.core.windows.net/cn1"
  }
}

using Azure;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Network.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Network;

// Generated from example definition: specification/network/resource-manager/Microsoft.Network/stable/2025-01-01/examples/NetworkWatcherTroubleshootGet.json
// this example is just showing the usage of "NetworkWatchers_GetTroubleshooting" operation, for the dependent resources, they will have to be created separately.

// get your azure access token, for more details of how Azure SDK get your access token, please refer to https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/dotnet/azure/sdk/authentication?tabs=command-line
TokenCredential cred = new DefaultAzureCredential();
// authenticate your client
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(cred);

// this example assumes you already have this NetworkWatcherResource created on azure
// for more information of creating NetworkWatcherResource, please refer to the document of NetworkWatcherResource
string subscriptionId = "subid";
string resourceGroupName = "rg1";
string networkWatcherName = "nw1";
ResourceIdentifier networkWatcherResourceId = NetworkWatcherResource.CreateResourceIdentifier(subscriptionId, resourceGroupName, networkWatcherName);
NetworkWatcherResource networkWatcher = client.GetNetworkWatcherResource(networkWatcherResourceId);

// invoke the operation
TroubleshootingContent content = new TroubleshootingContent(new ResourceIdentifier("/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg2/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vm1"), new ResourceIdentifier("/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/st1"), new Uri("https://st1.blob.core.windows.net/cn1"));
ArmOperation<TroubleshootingResult> lro = await networkWatcher.GetTroubleshootingAsync(WaitUntil.Completed, content);
TroubleshootingResult result = lro.Value;

Console.WriteLine($"Succeeded: {result}");

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "startTime": "2017-01-12T00:19:47.0442834Z",
  "endTime": "2017-01-12T00:20:09.914Z",
  "code": "UnHealthy",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "000000",
      "reasonType": "VipUnResponsive",
      "summary": "We are sorry, your VPN gateway is unreachable from the Internet",
      "detail": "During this time S2S VPN tunnels to on premises sites or other Azure virtual networks will be disconnected",
      "recommendedActions": [
        {
          "actionText": "Verify if there is a network security group (NSG) applied to the GatewaySubnet",
          "actionUri": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-create-nsg-arm-pportal",
          "actionUriText": "Verify"
        },
        {
          "actionText": "If your VPN gateway isn't up and running by the expected resolution time, contact support",
          "actionUri": "http://azure.microsoft.com/support",
          "actionUriText": "contact support"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Status code:: 202

Location: https:/management.azure.com/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkWatchers/nw1/troubleshoot?api-version=2025-01-01

{
  "startTime": "2017-01-12T00:19:47.0442834Z",
  "endTime": "2017-01-12T00:20:09.914Z",
  "code": "UnHealthy",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "000000",
      "reasonType": "VipUnResponsive",
      "summary": "We are sorry, your VPN gateway is unreachable from the Internet",
      "detail": "During this time S2S VPN tunnels to on premises sites or other Azure virtual networks will be disconnected",
      "recommendedActions": [
        {
          "actionText": "Verify if there is a network security group (NSG) applied to the GatewaySubnet",
          "actionUri": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-create-nsg-arm-pportal",
          "actionUriText": "Verify"
        },
        {
          "actionText": "If your VPN gateway isn't up and running by the expected resolution time, contact support",
          "actionUri": "http://azure.microsoft.com/support",
          "actionUriText": "contact support"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
ErrorDetails	Common error details representation.
ErrorResponse	The error object.
TroubleshootingDetails	Information gained from troubleshooting of specified resource.
TroubleshootingParameters	Parameters that define the resource to troubleshoot.
TroubleshootingRecommendedActions	Recommended actions based on discovered issues.
TroubleshootingResult	Troubleshooting information gained from specified resource.

ErrorDetails

Object

Common error details representation.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	Error code.
message	string	Error message.
target	string	Error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

The error object.

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetails	Error The error details object.

TroubleshootingDetails

Object

Information gained from troubleshooting of specified resource.

Name	Type	Description
detail	string	Details on troubleshooting results.
id	string	The id of the get troubleshoot operation.
reasonType	string	Reason type of failure.
recommendedActions	TroubleshootingRecommendedActions[]	List of recommended actions.
summary	string	A summary of troubleshooting.

TroubleshootingParameters

Object

Parameters that define the resource to troubleshoot.

Name	Type	Description
properties.storageId	string	The ID for the storage account to save the troubleshoot result.
properties.storagePath	string	The path to the blob to save the troubleshoot result in.
targetResourceId	string	The target resource to troubleshoot.

TroubleshootingRecommendedActions

Object

Recommended actions based on discovered issues.

Name	Type	Description
actionId	string	ID of the recommended action.
actionText	string	Description of recommended actions.
actionUri	string	The uri linking to a documentation for the recommended troubleshooting actions.
actionUriText	string	The information from the URI for the recommended troubleshooting actions.

TroubleshootingResult

Object

Troubleshooting information gained from specified resource.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	The result code of the troubleshooting.
endTime	string (date-time)	The end time of the troubleshooting.
results	TroubleshootingDetails[]	Information from troubleshooting.
startTime	string (date-time)	The start time of the troubleshooting.

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Network Watchers - Get Troubleshooting

URI Parameters

Request Body

Responses

Security

azure_auth

Scopes

Examples

Get troubleshooting

Sample request

Sample response

Definitions

ErrorDetails

ErrorResponse

TroubleshootingDetails

TroubleshootingParameters

TroubleshootingRecommendedActions

TroubleshootingResult