The frontend address of a load balancer, also called its virtual IP. Its availability is tracked by the Data Path Availability metric.
Also called virtual IP.
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Terms in this definition
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
- Data Path Availability
Metric reporting frontend (VIP) availability on a Standard Load Balancer; check it first when a VM behind the load balancer appears to be down.
- metric
Measurement over time that VCF Operations gathers for an object, such as CPU usage. A policy turns collection of each one on or off, or lets it inherit the setting.
Related terms
- Accessibility level
Whether a Container Apps environment is reachable publicly or only privately, fixed when the environment is made. With external, its virtual IP sits on a public address; with internal, an internal load balancer in your own virtual network holds it.
- Application Gateway v2
Present-day Application Gateway SKU, Standard_v2 or WAF_v2, offering zone redundancy, autoscaling, a static VIP, Key Vault integration and header rewrite. It requires its own subnet, ideally a /24.
- Application monitoring high availability
An optional collector group setting in VCF Operations, off by default, that pairs cloud proxies as primary and secondary behind a shared virtual IP on one subnet. If a proxy is lost, application and operating-system monitoring through Telegraf carries on.
- integrated load balancer
Optional Cluster VIP feature in VCF Operations for logs that puts a built-in balancer before the primary node, so an HA deployment has no single point of failure and needs no external appliance.
- Watchlist
A reference list in Microsoft Sentinel, for example of IP ranges or VIP users, kept in the Watchlist table so queries and rules can look values up. It takes no action on incidents.