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azure-traffic-manager

Expert knowledge for Azure Traffic Manager development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when configuring profiles/endpoints, routing methods, RUM JS, nested designs, or Traffic View–based tuning, and other Azure Traffic Manager related development tasks. Not for Azure Front Door (use azure-front-door), Azure Load Balancer (use azure-load-balancer), Azure Virtual WAN (use azure-virtual-wan), Azure Application Gateway (use azure-application-gateway).

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SKILL.md

Azure Traffic Manager Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Traffic Manager. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

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  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category Lines Description
Troubleshooting L34-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.
Configuration L59-L80 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 L81-L85 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.

Troubleshooting

Topic URL
Verify and test Azure Traffic Manager routing configuration https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-testing-settings
Diagnose and fix degraded Azure Traffic Manager profiles https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-troubleshooting-degraded

Best Practices

Topic URL
Apply performance best practices for Azure Traffic Manager https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-performance-considerations

Decision Making

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

Architecture & Design Patterns

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

Configuration

Topic URL
Define nested Multivalue routing with ARM templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/configure-multivalue-routing-method-template
Configure DNS record types and IPv6 in Traffic Manager https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/dns-record-types
Add external endpoints to Traffic Manager via ARM templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/how-to-add-endpoint-existing-profile-template
Define Traffic Manager profiles using Bicep https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile-bicep
Configure Traffic Manager profiles with ARM templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile-template
Provision Traffic Manager profiles using Terraform https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile-terraform
Configure MultiValue routing profiles in Traffic Manager https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-configure-multivalue-routing-method
Configure subnet-based routing rules in Traffic Manager https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-configure-subnet-routing-method
Enable and use Traffic Manager diagnostic resource logs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-diagnostic-logs
Configure geographic routing regions for Traffic Manager https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-geographic-regions
Manage Traffic Manager endpoints across regions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-manage-endpoints
Create and manage Azure Traffic Manager profiles https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-manage-profiles
Use Traffic Manager metrics and alerts for monitoring https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-metrics-alerts
Configure endpoint monitoring and health checks in Traffic Manager https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-monitoring
Manage Azure Traffic Manager with PowerShell (ARM) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-powershell-arm
Configure Traffic Manager subnet override via Azure CLI https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-subnet-override-cli
Configure Traffic Manager subnet override via PowerShell https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-subnet-override-powershell
Configure weighted endpoint routing in Traffic Manager https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/tutorial-traffic-manager-weighted-endpoint-routing

Integrations & Coding Patterns

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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