Is it Possible to Name the Azure Network Watcher?

Question

When I created an Azure virtual network, it automatically creates a Network Watcher called NetworkWatcher_canadacentral for me in its own resource group called NetworkWatcherRG.

My question is whether its possible to give the Network Watcher and the resource group it gets created in a custom name. I'm using Pulumi to Create my virtual network but answers showing ARM/Bicep/Terraform are also welcome.

Answer 1

You can name it whatever you want as long as it meets the naming requirements which is 1-80 chars, Alphanumerics, underscores, periods, and hyphens. Start with alphanumeric. End alphanumeric or underscore.

Terraform

In Terraform you just give the Network Watcher resource name whatever you want like so:

resource "azurerm_network_watcher" "app1_traffic" {
  name                = "MyAwesomeNetworkWatcherName"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.application1.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.application1.name
}

PowerShell

In PowerShell the command is:

New-AzNetworkWatcher -Name "MyNetworkWatcherName" -ResourceGroupName "secstuff" -Location "East US 2"

Pulumi

From what I see on the Pulumi docs Network Watcher does take a name parameter.