Diagnosing and Correcting Tablet Distribution Skew in YugabyteDB
Detect and correct tablet distribution skew in YugabyteDB by checking tablet counts per node, enabling the load balancer, and triggering a rebalance.
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Backend pool management
The backend pool is a critical component of the load balancer. The backend pool defines the group of resources that serve traffic for a given load-balancing rule. There are two ways of configuring a backend pool: Network Interface Card (NIC) IP address To preallocate a backend pool with an IP addres
Azure Load Balancer health probes
An Azure Load Balancer health probe is a feature that detects the health status of your application instances. It sends a request to the instances to check if they're available and responding to requests. The health probe can be configured to use different protocols such as TCP, HTTP, or HTTPS. It's
Configure a Virtual Machine Scale Set with an existing Azure Standard Load Balancer
In this article, you'll learn how to configure a Virtual Machine Scale Set with an existing Azure Load Balancer. With an existing virtual network and standard sku load balancer, you can deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with a few clicks in the Azure portal, or with a few lines of code in the Azure
Global load balancer
Azure Standard Load Balancer supports global load balancing, which you can use for geo-redundant high availability scenarios such as: Incoming traffic originating from multiple regions. Instant global failover to the next optimal regional deployment. Load distribution across regions to the closest A
Azure Load Balancer distribution modes
Azure Load Balancer supports the following distribution modes for routing connections to instances in the backend pool: Distribution mode Hash based Session persistence: Client IP Session persistence: Client IP and protocol Overview Traffic from the same client IP routed to any healthy instance in t
Gateway Load Balancer
Gateway Load Balancer is a SKU of the Azure Load Balancer portfolio designed for high performance and high availability scenarios with third-party Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs). By using Gateway Load Balancer, you can easily deploy, scale, and manage NVAs. Chaining a Gateway Load Balancer to you
Azure Load Balancer algorithm
Azure Load Balancer is Azure's most performant Load Balancer all while keeping latency ultra-low. To learn more about Azure Load Balancer, visit Azure Load Balancer overview or Azure Load balancer components . Azure Load Balancer uses a tuple-based hashing as the load-balancing algorithm. Load balan
What is Azure Load Balancer?
Important On September 30, 2025, Basic Load Balancer was retired. For more information, see the official announcement . If you're currently using Basic Load Balancer, upgrade to Standard Load Balancer as soon as possible. For guidance on upgrading, see Upgrading from Basic Load Balancer - Guidance .