
The second profile is described below.Īzure Front Door processes and routes most of your application traffic. If Azure Front Door is unavailable, a second Traffic Manager profile determines where to direct the request. By default, Traffic Manager sends requests through Azure Front Door. Traffic Manager using priority routing mode has two endpoints. The solution includes the following components: In the unlikely event of an availability issue, Traffic Manager redirects traffic through Application Gateway. This DNS-based load balancing solution uses multiple Azure Traffic Manager profiles to monitor Azure Front Door. For information about the context and considerations, see Mission-critical global web applications.


This use case is part of an overall design strategy that covers an alternate approach when Azure Front Door is unavailable. If caching is important, see Mission-critical global content delivery for an alternative approach.

If you decide to adopt this approach, you'll need to implement separate network path to your application servers, and each path needs to be configured and tested separately. When you design web traffic ingress, routing, and security, you can consider combining multiple Azure services to achieve a higher level of availability and to avoid having a single point of failure. Mission-critical applications need to maintain a high level of uptime, even when network components are unavailable or degraded.
