# Azure Load Balancer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-load-balancer/  
**Website:** https://portal.azure.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, low-latency layer-4 load balancing service for distributing inbound and outbound network traffic across virtual machines and other Azure resources. It supports public and internal load balancers, health probes, NAT rules, and HA scenarios.

## Kin Score — 40.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 50.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **Azure Load Balancer Load Balancers API** — Load Balancers operations
- **Azure Load Balancer Operations API** — Operations operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Load Balancer Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Microsoft Azure Load Balancer Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Microsoft Azure Load Balancer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Load Balancer Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (3)

- **Web Application High Availability** — Distribute traffic across multiple web servers for improved reliability and uptime.
- **VM Scale Set Load Balancing** — Automatically balance traffic across virtual machine scale sets with auto-scaling capabilities.
- **Network Virtual Appliance Distribution** — Distribute traffic across multiple firewall or NVA instances using HA ports.

## Tags

Azure, High Availability, Layer 4, Load Balancing, Network

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-load-balancer/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.