Technical requirements

This chapter assumes that you have an Azure AD tenancy and an Azure subscription from completing the recipes in previous chapters of this cookbook. If you skipped straight to this section, the information needed to create a new Azure AD tenancy and an Azure subscription for these recipes is included in the following list of requirements.

For this chapter, the following are required:

• A device with a browser, such as Edge or Chrome, to access the Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com
• An Azure AD tenancy and Azure subscription; you may use existing or sign up for free: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free
• An Owner role for the Azure subscription

Terminology reference

We will start with some of the terminology used in traffic analytics:

• Network security group (NSG): This controls network traffic flow into and out of a VM via a network interface
• NSG flow logs: We can capture information about every packet that flows into...