# Azure Traffic Manager

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager/  
**Website:** https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/traffic-manager  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 50.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 49.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 59.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 33.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| 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 (9)

- **Azure Traffic Manager Endpoints REST API** — 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...
- **Azure Traffic Manager Heatmap REST API** — 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...
- **Azure Traffic Manager User Metrics REST API** — 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 rout...
- **Azure Traffic Manager Geographic Hierarchies REST API** — REST API for retrieving the geographic hierarchy used by Traffic Manager for geographic routing. Returns the supported regions, countries, and subdivisions that can be configure...
- **Azure Traffic Manager Endpoints API** — Endpoint operations within a profile
- **Azure Traffic Manager GeographicHierarchies API** — Default geographic hierarchy
- **Azure Traffic Manager HeatMap API** — Geographic heatmap analytics
- **Azure Traffic Manager Profiles API** — Traffic Manager profile operations
- **Azure Traffic Manager UserMetrics API** — Real User Measurements (RUM) keys

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Agentic Access** — 15 operations · 8 acting

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Plans Pricing**

## Tags

DNS Load Balancing, Failover, Global Routing, Networking, Traffic Distribution, Traffic Manager

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