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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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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.

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Azure Traffic Manager Skill

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IMPORTANT for Agent: This file may be large. Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections, then use read_file with specific line ranges (e.g., L136-L144) to read the sections needed for the user's question This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content. Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch to retrieve full articles.

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Category Index

Category	Lines	Description
Troubleshooting	L28-L32	Testing Traffic Manager routing behavior, verifying endpoint health, and diagnosing/fixing degraded profiles, misconfigurations, and routing issues.
Best Practices	L34-L37	Guidance on optimizing Traffic Manager profiles, endpoint configuration, monitoring, and routing settings for high performance, reliability, and low-latency global traffic distribution
Decision Making	L39-L43	Guidance on choosing the right Traffic Manager routing method and using Traffic View analytics to optimize routing decisions and traffic distribution
Architecture & Design Patterns	L45-L51	Architectural patterns for combining Traffic Manager with other Azure load balancers, nested profiles, App Service integration, and Traffic Manager + Application Gateway designs.
Configuration	L53-L73	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	L75-L79	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