Traffic Routing and Canary Testing

Traffic routing allows you to perform testing in production by directing a specific percentage of user traffic to a non-production slot. This technique is highly effective for monitoring how a new application version performs with a real audience before a full release. You can use the Azure portal to manually adjust the routing percentage to support different testing strategies:

• Canary Testing: This strategy deploys a new version to a small, controlled group of users to monitor for bugs and system stability.
• A/B Analysis: This strategy splits traffic between two different versions of an application to compare user engagement and performance results.