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Provides expert guidance for Azure Traffic Manager development including troubleshooting, best practices, routing method selection, architecture patterns, security, and configuration. Use when configuring profiles/endpoints, routing methods, nested profiles, or Traffic View analytics.
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This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Traffic Manager. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Traffic Manager. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,
L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L35-L39 | Testing Traffic Manager routing behavior, verifying endpoint health, and diagnosing/fixing degraded profiles, misconfigurations, and routing issues. |
| Best Practices | L40-L44 | Guidance on optimizing Traffic Manager profiles, endpoint configuration, monitoring, and routing settings for high performance, reliability, and low-latency global traffic distribution |
| Decision Making | L45-L50 | Guidance on choosing the right Traffic Manager routing method and using Traffic View analytics to optimize routing decisions and traffic distribution |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L51-L58 | Architectural patterns for combining Traffic Manager with other Azure load balancers, nested profiles, App Service integration, and Traffic Manager + Application Gateway designs. |
| Security | L59-L63 | Best practices for securely configuring Traffic Manager profiles, endpoints, access controls, and monitoring to protect traffic routing and DNS-based load balancing. |
| Configuration | L64-L85 | Configuring Traffic Manager profiles, endpoints, routing methods (weighted, geographic, subnet, multivalue), DNS/IPv6, monitoring/logs, and using ARM, Bicep, Terraform, CLI, and PowerShell. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L86-L90 | Using Traffic Manager Real User Measurements (RUM) in apps and web pages, including integrating with Visual Studio App Center and adding the RUM JavaScript to collect user latency data. |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Verify and test Azure Traffic Manager routing configuration | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-testing-settings |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Apply performance best practices for Azure Traffic Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-performance-considerations |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Choose appropriate Azure Traffic Manager routing methods | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-routing-methods |
| Use Traffic View insights for Traffic Manager optimization | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-traffic-view-overview |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Design solutions using Azure load-balancing portfolio | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-load-balancing-azure |
| Design nested Traffic Manager profile architectures | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-nested-profiles |
| Integrate Azure App Service with Traffic Manager routing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-use-azure-app-service |
| Architect solutions combining Traffic Manager and Application Gateway | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-use-with-application-gateway |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Secure configuration practices for Azure Traffic Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/secure-traffic-manager |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Integrate Visual Studio App Center apps with Traffic Manager RUM | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-create-rum-visual-studio |
| Instrument web pages for Traffic Manager Real User Measurements | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-create-rum-web-pages |
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