What is Azure Application Gateway?
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer (OSI layer 7) designed to help manage traffic to web applications. Unlike traditional OSI layer 4 load balancers that operate at the transport layer, which route traffic based on source IP and port to a destination IP and port, Application Gateway offers more advanced routing capabilities.
With Azure Application Gateway, routing decisions can be based on additional attributes of an HTTP request, such as host headers or URI paths. For instance, traffic routing can be based on the incoming URL. If the URL contains /images, the traffic can be directed to a specific set of servers (known as a pool) configured for handling images. Conversely, if the URL contains /video, the traffic can be routed to a different pool optimized for video content.
How to monitor Azure Application Gateway?
Monitoring Azure Application Gateways is crucial for maintaining the performance and security of web applications.
This package automatically configures the ServicePilot Agent in order to monitor traffic of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway resources and services with the Microsoft API.
The ServicePilot network-azure-application-gateway package collects the following metrics:
- Connections details
- Request statistics
- Bytes information
- Firewall statistics on requests
How to install a azure-application-gateway resource?
- Use your ServicePilot OnPremise installation or a SaaS account.
- Add a new azure-application-gateway resource via the web interface (
/prmviewsor/prmresources) or via API (/prmpackagespage), the default ServicePilot agent or another agent will be provisioned automatically.
Details of the azure-application-gateway package are located in the
/prmpackagespage of the software.
Benefits
ServicePilot enables you to deliver IT services faster and more securely with automated discovery and advanced monitoring features.
By correlating the technology AZURE APPLICATION GATEWAY with APM and infrastructure monitoring, ServicePilot is able to provide a more comprehensive view of an organization's IT environment.
This allows IT teams to quickly identify and diagnose issues that may be impacting application performance, and take corrective action before end-users are affected.
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