Monitoring

Besides routing traffic to a different endpoint, Azure Traffic Manager offers some additional functionalities when it comes to monitoring. Besides the traditional Metrics blade, there is an extra feature available called Traffic view, which enables you to monitor. What is more, you can use many different built-in mechanisms (like nslookup in Windows OS), to check the current configuration of the service.

Nslookup

To use nslookup, you have to run the command line in Windows using your administrator account. Once it is loaded, enter the following command:

nslookup <Traffic-Manager-DNS-name>

After a moment, it should return a result showing the command resolution:

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds...