Azure Traffic Manager will stop automatically enabling, disabling, or deleting endpoints for Azure Cloud Services on May 1, 2019
Published date: April 18, 2019
Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable, or delete endpoints when starting, stopping, or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on May 1, 2019, and you’ll need to manually enable, disable, or delete profile endpoints in Traffic Manager when starting, stopping, or deleting a cloud service. You’ll continue to be billed for the endpoints unless they are manually disabled or deleted.
This change does not affect any other Azure Traffic Manager feature or functionality. Azure Traffic Manager will continue to probe the Azure Cloud Services endpoints and steer traffic based on endpoint health as usual. Apart from the changes described above, you can continue to use Azure Traffic Manager with Azure Cloud Services normally.
This change only affects the profile endpoint of type “Azure endpoint” when the target resource type is “cloud service.” All other endpoint types will continue to work normally. This is an example of an affected endpoint shown in Traffic Manager:
Recommended action
No immediate action is required. However, if you stop or delete a cloud service permanently after May 1, 2019, make sure you disable or delete the corresponding endpoints in your Traffic Manager profiles. Manually disabling or deleting the endpoints will be necessary to avoid being billed for unused endpoints after stopping or deleting a cloud service. Note that failure to implement this recommendation will not cause an outage for your cloud services or affect the distribution of traffic to your cloud service endpoints.
Read more about Azure endpoints and managing endpoints in Traffic Manager. As a best practice, you can consider setting up alerts for the status of your traffic manager endpoints.