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title: How Traffic Manager works | Microsoft Docs
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title: How Azure Traffic Manager works | Microsoft Docs
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description: This article will help you understand how Traffic Manager routes traffic for high performance and availability of your web applications
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Traffic Manager provides two key benefits:
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1. Distribution of traffic according to one of several [traffic-routing methods](traffic-manager-routing-methods.md)
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2. [Continuous monitoring of endpoint health](traffic-manager-monitoring.md) and automatic failover when endpoints fail
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- Distribution of traffic according to one of several [traffic-routing methods](traffic-manager-routing-methods.md)
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- [Continuous monitoring of endpoint health](traffic-manager-monitoring.md) and automatic failover when endpoints fail
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When a client attempts to connect to a service, it must first resolve the DNS name of the service to an IP address. The client then connects to that IP address to access the service.
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**The most important point to understand is that Traffic Manager works at the DNS level.** Traffic Manager uses DNS to direct clients to specific service endpoints based on the rules of the traffic-routing method. Clients connect to the selected endpoint **directly**. Traffic Manager is not a proxy or a gateway. Traffic Manager does not see the traffic passing between the client and the service.
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### Traffic Manager example
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## Traffic Manager example
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Contoso Corp have developed a new partner portal. The URL for this portal is https://partners.contoso.com/login.aspx. The application is hosted in three regions of Azure. To improve availability and maximize global performance, they use Traffic Manager to distribute client traffic to the closest available endpoint.
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Learn more about Traffic Manager [traffic routing methods](traffic-manager-routing-methods.md).
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Learn about some of the other key [networking capabilities](../networking/networking-overview.md) of Azure.
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