Network Visualization
Render an interactive map of your Azure network. See VNets, peerings, gateways, firewalls, and load balancers on a single canvas, browse historical snapshots, and trace whether traffic from one endpoint to another would actually be delivered.
What You'll Learn
- Open a snapshot of your network and filter the canvas by subscription or resource type
- Navigate the topology with pan, zoom, and cluster-aware drag shortcuts
- Inspect any resource and jump straight to Explorer or the Azure portal
- Run a route trace between any two IPs or NICs to see exactly which subnets, NSGs, routes, and firewalls a packet would traverse
Key Capabilities
Whole-network canvas
VNets, peerings, VWAN hubs, firewalls, gateways, and load balancers on one screen instead of dozens of Azure portal blades. Application Gateways and Load Balancers are decomposed into their listeners, frontend IPs, backend pools, and probes.
Historical snapshots
Switch between any completed scan to compare topology before and after a change. Useful when an outage or audit asks "what did the network look like last Tuesday?"
Simulated route tracing
Pick any two endpoints, NICs or raw IPs, and StratoLens simulates the packet hop-by-hop. Each hop shows the matched route, NSG rules, and firewall decision, so you find exactly where (and why) traffic would be dropped.
Click through to details
Selecting any node opens a side panel with resource configuration plus shortcuts to View in Explorer (snapshot preserved) or Open in Azure Portal.
Focused-by-default filtering
Subnets, NICs, DNS zones, and similar noisy types are hidden on first load. Select them in Filter types when you need them.
Related Features
Network Visualization links into the rest of StratoLens for deeper inspection:
- Automated Scanning produces the snapshots that the visualizer renders. Each scan is one snapshot.
- The detail panel's View in Explorer button jumps to the full Resource Explorer with the current snapshot preserved, where you can inspect rules, policies, and configuration in depth.
Documentation Sections
Start with the Visualizer to learn the canvas, then move to Route Tracing when you need to verify a specific path.
Visualizer
Pick a snapshot, filter the topology, navigate the canvas, and inspect resources from the detail panel.
Read: Visualizer →Route Tracing
Simulate a packet between two endpoints, read the verdict, and inspect each hop's route, NSG, and firewall evaluation.
Read: Route Tracing →Want to learn more about what Network Topology Visualization can do?
Check out the feature page for benefits, use cases, and highlights.
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