Azure Networking Cookbook

How it works...

After we define the health probe, it will be used to monitor the endpoints in the backend pool. We define the protocol and the port as useful information that will provide information regarding whether the service we are using is available or not. Monitoring the state of the server would not be enough, as it could be misleading. For example, the server could be running and available, but the IIS or SQL server that we use might be done. So, the protocol and the port are going to detect change in a service that we are interested in, and not only whether the server is running. The interval defines how often a check is performed, and the unhealthy threshold defines after how many consecutive fails the endpoint is declared unavailable. ...