Azure Traffic Manager Agent Skill

Expert knowledge for Azure Traffic Manager development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when configuring profiles, routing methods, endpoints, RUM, Traffic View, or nested Traffic Manager designs, 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 Application Gateway (use azure-application-gateway), Azure Virtual WAN (use azure-virtual-wan).

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npx skills add https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-traffic-manager

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Azure Traffic Manager Skill

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.

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), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

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

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Troubleshooting | L35-L40 | Testing Traffic Manager routing behavior, verifying endpoint configuration, and diagnosing/fixing degraded or unhealthy Traffic Manager profiles and endpoints. |

| Best Practices | L41-L45 | Guidance on optimizing Traffic Manager profiles, endpoint configuration, monitoring, and routing settings for high performance, reliability, and low-latency global traffic distribution |

| Decision Making | L46-L51 | Guidance on choosing the right Traffic Manager routing method and using Traffic View analytics to optimize routing decisions and traffic distribution |

| Architecture & Design Patterns | L52-L59 | Architectural patterns for combining Traffic Manager with other Azure load balancers, nested profiles, App Service integration, and Traffic Manager + Application Gateway designs. |

| Security | L60-L64 | Best practices for securely configuring Traffic Manager profiles, endpoints, access controls, and monitoring to protect traffic routing and DNS-based load balancing. |

| Configuration | L65-L87 | Configuring Traffic Manager profiles, routing methods (weighted, geographic, subnet, multivalue), endpoints (including external), monitoring/logs, and automation via ARM, Bicep, Terraform, CLI, and PowerShell |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L88-L92 | 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 Azure Traffic Manager degraded status | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/traffic-manager/troubleshoot-traffic-manager-degraded-status |

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 |

Security

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Secure configuration practices for Azure Traffic Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/secure-traffic-manager |

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 strictly typed profiles in Azure Traffic Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-strictly-typed-profiles |

| 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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