Creating a probe

Probes in Azure Application Gateway are used to monitor the health of the backend endpoints. Each endpoint is monitored, and if found to be unhealthy, is temporarily taken out of the pool. Once the status changes, it's added back to the pool. This prevents requests from being sent to unhealthy endpoints that couldn't resolve the request.

Getting ready

Before you start, open the browser and go to the Azure portal through https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it...

In order to add a probe to our application gateway, we must do the following:

1. In...