Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness. It supports configurable routing methods including priority, weighted, performance, geographic, multivalue, and subnet routing.

Azure Traffic Manager publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Endpoints API, GeographicHierarchies API, HeatMap API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include DNS Load Balancing, Failover, Global Routing, Networking, and Traffic Distribution.

Azure Traffic Manager’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 26 more developer resources.

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60.3/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

9 APIs 1 MCP Servers

DNS Load BalancingFailoverGlobal RoutingNetworkingTraffic DistributionTraffic Manager

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 60.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 13.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Scopes

1 scope · implicit

1 scopes

SCOPES

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 9

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

SDKs

SDK - Python

SDK - .NET

SDK - JavaScript

SDK - Java

CLI Tools

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHub REST API Specs

GitHub REST API Specs

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Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Training

Training

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

Support

ChangeLog

StackOverflow

Community

FAQ

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

ServiceLevelAgreement

ServiceLevelAgreement

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

name: Azure Traffic Manager
description: Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to
  services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness. It supports configurable routing
  methods including priority, weighted, performance, geographic, multivalue, and subnet routing.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://azure.microsoft.com/svghandler/traffic-manager/
tags:
- DNS Load Balancing
- Failover
- Global Routing
- Networking
- Traffic Distribution
- Traffic Manager
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/
specificationVersion: '0.18'
apis:
- name: Azure Traffic Manager Endpoints REST API
  description: REST API for managing endpoints within a Traffic Manager profile. Supports adding, updating, and removing Azure,
    external, and nested endpoints that receive traffic according to the profile's routing method and health monitoring configuration.
  image: https://azure.microsoft.com/svghandler/traffic-manager/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/endpoints
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Endpoints
  - Health Monitoring
  - Traffic Manager
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/endpoints
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/endpoints?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-endpoint-types
- name: Azure Traffic Manager Heatmap REST API
  description: REST API for retrieving Traffic Manager heatmap data, which provides geographic visualization of DNS query
    volumes and endpoint selection by region. Useful for analyzing traffic distribution and routing decisions across the global
    user base.
  image: https://azure.microsoft.com/svghandler/traffic-manager/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/heat-map
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Heatmap
  - Traffic Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/heat-map
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/heat-map/get?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
- name: Azure Traffic Manager User Metrics REST API
  description: REST API for managing real user measurements (RUM) keys used by Traffic Manager performance routing. User metrics
    enable Traffic Manager to make more accurate latency-based routing decisions using telemetry from end users.
  image: https://azure.microsoft.com/svghandler/traffic-manager/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/traffic-manager-user-metrics-keys
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Performance
  - Real User Measurements
  - User Metrics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/traffic-manager-user-metrics-keys
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/traffic-manager-user-metrics-keys?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
- name: Azure Traffic Manager Geographic Hierarchies REST API
  description: REST API for retrieving the geographic hierarchy used by Traffic Manager for geographic routing. Returns the
    supported regions, countries, and subdivisions that can be configured as endpoint geo-mappings within geographic routing
    profiles.
  image: https://azure.microsoft.com/svghandler/traffic-manager/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/geographic-hierarchies
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Geographic Hierarchy
  - Geographic Routing
  - Regions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/geographic-hierarchies
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/geographic-hierarchies/get-default?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
- aid: microsoft-azure-traffic-manager:microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-endpoints-api
  name: Azure Traffic Manager Endpoints API
  description: Endpoint operations within a profile
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Endpoints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-endpoints-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile
- aid: microsoft-azure-traffic-manager:microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-geographichierarchies-api
  name: Azure Traffic Manager GeographicHierarchies API
  description: Default geographic hierarchy
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - GeographicHierarchies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-geographichierarchies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile
- aid: microsoft-azure-traffic-manager:microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-heatmap-api
  name: Azure Traffic Manager HeatMap API
  description: Geographic heatmap analytics
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - HeatMap
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-heatmap-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile
- aid: microsoft-azure-traffic-manager:microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-profiles-api
  name: Azure Traffic Manager Profiles API
  description: Traffic Manager profile operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Profiles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-profiles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile
- aid: microsoft-azure-traffic-manager:microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-usermetrics-api
  name: Azure Traffic Manager UserMetrics API
  description: Real User Measurements (RUM) keys
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - UserMetrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-usermetrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles
  - type: Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/trafficmanager/profiles?view=rest-trafficmanager-2022-04-01
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/azure-traffic-manager/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/traffic-manager
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/quickstart-create-traffic-manager-profile
- type: Authentication
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/authentication-scenarios
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/traffic-manager/
- type: ServiceLevelAgreement
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/traffic-manager/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.azure.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/topics/networking/
- type: Support
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: Signup
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free
- type: Login
  url: https://portal.azure.com
- type: SDKs
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
- type: SDK - Python
  url: https://pypi.org/project/azure-mgmt-trafficmanager/
- type: SDK - .NET
  url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Azure.ResourceManager.TrafficManager
- type: SDK - JavaScript
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azure/arm-trafficmanager
- type: SDK - Java
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/java/api/overview/azure/resourcemanager-trafficmanager-readme
- type: CLI Tools
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/network/traffic-manager
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/?product=traffic-manager
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Azure
- type: GitHub REST API Specs
  url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/trafficmanager
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/azure-traffic-manager
- type: Community
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/175/azure-traffic-manager
- type: FAQ
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-FAQs
- type: Training
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/distribute-load-with-traffic-manager/
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Resource-Manager-MCP
  type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com