Private Traffic Manager GSLB Feature

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Private Traffic Manager GSLB Feature

Devlin Thornicroft (C) 20

Hello all

Is there a plan to have it so that Traffic Manager can be used within the internal network, e.g. resources within a Vnet, or even outside of the Azure network, e.g. on-prem, rather than being just a public service? Having this functionality would be greatly useful.

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Ganesh Patapati 12,170 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Hello @Devlin Thornicroft (C)

No, we can't work traffic manager in this way.

Traffic Manager works at the DNS level; it uses DNS responses to direct end-user traffic to globally distributed endpoints. Clients then connect to those endpoints directly. And traffic manager only supports Internet-facing applications. More information about traffic manager, refer to the link.

Traffic Manager cannot natively direct traffic to private endpoints, internal VNet-only resources, or on-prem systems.
It only supports routing based on public DNS records, health probing from the Azure edge (public), and internet-accessible endpoints.

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Because of this architecture:

You cannot use Traffic Manager to route traffic within a private Azure VNet, or across site-to-site VPN/ExpressRoute without exposing at least a public endpoint (even if protected).

As this something which is not supported. We encourage customers to create a feedback item for this request on the feedback forum

Feedback link: https://feedback.azure.com/d365community

Hope this helps and let me know if you need more assistance!

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Ganesh Patapati 12,170 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-06-16T09:06:56.0333333+00:00

Hello @Devlin Thornicroft (C)

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Ganesh Patapati 12,170 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-06-17T09:48:38.9333333+00:00

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