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Add health probe documentation to reliability doc
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articles/search/search-reliability.md

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+ [Azure Traffic Manager](/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-overview), used to route requests to multiple geo-located websites that are then backed by multiple search services.
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+ [Application Gateway](/azure/application-gateway/overview), used to load balance between servers in a region at the application layer.
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+ [Azure Front Door](/azure/frontdoor/front-door-overview), used to optimize global routing of web traffic and provide global failover.
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+ [Azure Load Balancer](/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-overview), used to load balance between services in a backend pool.
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Some points to keep in mind when evaluating load balancing options:
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Traffic Manager doesn't provide an endpoint for a direct connection to Azure AI Search, which means you can't put a search service directly behind Traffic Manager. Instead, the assumption is that requests flow to Traffic Manager, then to a search-enabled web client, and finally to a search service on the backend. The client and service are located in the same region. If one search service goes down, the search client starts failing, and Traffic Manager redirects to the remaining client.
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> [!NOTE]
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> If you are using Azure Load Balancer [health probes](/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-custom-probe-overview) on a search service, you must use a HTTPS probe with `/ping` as the path.
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![Diagram of search apps connecting through Azure Traffic Manager.][4]
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## Data residency in a multi-region deployment

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