The Azure Load Balancers Layer

With the help of the test mapped to this layer, you can monitor the following:

• Availability of Data path from within a region to the load balancer front end.

• Health-probing status that monitors the application endpoint's health.

• Amount of data being transmitted.

• Count of data packets processed per front end.

• Aggregate or per-endpoint filtered view count of each instance endpoint in the load balancer pool.

• Count of SNAT connections that indicates how heavily the application is relying on SNAT for outbound originated flows.

• Number of SNAT ports allocated per backend instance.

• Number of SNAT ports that were utilized per backend instance.

• Percentage of SNAT ports that were utilized per backend instance.

• Current Provisioning state of Load Balancer.

• Number of frontend IP configurations, backend pools, health probes and load balancing rules.

Figure 1 : The tests associated with the Azure Load Balancers layer