Control how users and requests reach your applications across servers, sites, regions and clouds. Use application health, routing policies, location and availability to direct traffic toward the right infrastructure and move it elsewhere when conditions change.
Health-Aware Routing
Policy-Based Control
Multi-Site & Multi-Cloud
Application traffic management is the process of deciding how incoming application traffic should be distributed and routed across available infrastructure. Instead of simply sending traffic to a fixed destination, traffic management can consider factors such as application health, capacity, location, routing policy and infrastructure availability before deciding where a request should go. If an application endpoint, server, site or cloud environment becomes unavailable, traffic can be redirected toward healthy infrastructure rather than leaving users dependent on a failed resource. Application traffic management can operate at several levels, combining technologies such as load balancing, global server load balancing, DNS traffic management, health monitoring and automated failover as part of a wider Application Delivery strategy.
Applications rarely live on a single server anymore. They may span multiple servers, availability zones, data centers, cloud platforms or geographic regions. Yet simply deploying infrastructure in more than one location does not automatically make an application highly available.
This is where application traffic management becomes part of the availability architecture. Total Uptime can monitor application infrastructure and direct traffic toward healthy resources when individual endpoints or locations become unavailable.
Total Uptime monitors the application endpoints, servers or locations that form part of the delivery architecture.
Traffic decisions can take account of application health, routing rules, availability, location and other defined policies.
Requests are directed toward the appropriate healthy application infrastructure.
If conditions change or an endpoint becomes unavailable, traffic can be moved toward alternative infrastructure according to the routing configuration.
Continuously evaluate the availability of applications and infrastructure, then direct traffic toward endpoints that are responding as expected.
Define how traffic should be handled according to your application requirements, rather than relying entirely on the routing logic of an individual cloud or infrastructure provider.
Direct users toward appropriate application locations based on geography, proximity or the architecture of your service.
Spread traffic across multiple application resources to reduce reliance on individual servers and make better use of available infrastructure.
When a monitored endpoint or location becomes unavailable, redirect traffic toward alternative healthy infrastructure according to predefined rules.
Manage application traffic across cloud platforms, private infrastructure, data centers and distributed environments without requiring every application to run in the same place.
Applications do not all run in the same environment, so traffic management should not force them to.
Let Total Uptime operate the application delivery infrastructure while you control how traffic should be distributed.
Deploy traffic management and application delivery within your own data center, private cloud or public cloud environment.
Combine managed and self-hosted capabilities where applications span different infrastructure environments.
Not quite. Load balancing is one part of application traffic management.
A load balancer typically distributes incoming requests across multiple servers or application endpoints. Application traffic management is the broader strategy for determining how traffic should move across servers, sites, regions, cloud providers and application environments.
Reduce dependency on individual application endpoints by directing traffic toward healthy infrastructure.
Build alternative application paths so a problem with one cloud, provider or location does not automatically become an application outage.
Distribute traffic between application environments running in different geographic regions.
Route users toward secondary infrastructure when the primary application environment becomes unavailable.
Distribute increasing application and API traffic across multiple resources instead of allowing a single endpoint to become the bottleneck.
Move application traffic between infrastructure environments while servers, locations or platforms are being changed or maintained.
Design traffic paths around the application rather than depending entirely on a single cloud platform or infrastructure provider.
Route traffic according to whether application infrastructure is actually available, not simply whether it exists.
Use Total Uptime as a managed service, deploy within infrastructure you control, or combine the two.
Bring load balancing, DNS, GSLB, traffic management, connectivity and application security into the same wider Application Delivery strategy.
Quick answers to the questions infrastructure teams ask most.
Application traffic management controls how requests are distributed and routed across the infrastructure running an application. Routing decisions can consider factors such as endpoint health, availability, location, capacity and defined traffic policies.
Application traffic routing is the process of directing application requests toward a particular server, endpoint, location or cloud environment. Intelligent routing can change the destination when application conditions change.
Load balancing normally distributes traffic across a group of servers or endpoints. Application traffic management is broader and can control traffic across servers, data centers, geographic regions and cloud providers using load balancing, DNS, GSLB, health monitoring and failover.
Yes. Health checks can monitor application endpoints and allow traffic to be directed away from infrastructure that is unavailable or not responding according to defined criteria.
Yes. Traffic management can be used to direct requests across application infrastructure hosted in different cloud providers, regions, private infrastructure and data centers.
Where failover has been configured, the failed endpoint can be removed from the available traffic path and requests can be redirected toward alternative healthy infrastructure.
Real organisations. Real resilience. Real results.
Your application may run across multiple servers, sites or clouds. The important question is what happens to traffic when one of them stops working. Total Uptime can help you design an application traffic management architecture that routes users toward healthy infrastructure and keeps applications available when conditions change.
