How can I use Bicep to create an Azure DNS alias record?
We use Bicep to manage our DNS records in an Azure DNS Zone. I have recently set up an Azure Front Door profile with custom domains, which is working fine. One of the custom domains is an apex domain, so the Azure portal creates a DNS A record (in alias…
Import Export Front Door Rule Sets
Dear Microsoft Azure team. Will Azure Front Door ever support Import/Export of Front Door Rule Sets? Or even Copy/Paste between more Front Door's? The reasoning behind this question is that we might have Development Front Door and Production Front…
First deployment failed. PAYG plan. The number of profiles created exceeds quota.
Hello, My First deployment failed. I'm on PAYG plan but I'm getting this error: { "code": "BadRequest", "message": "The number of profiles created exceeds quota. Please contact support to increase…
Getting 502 error while using Azure Front Door instead of Traffic Manager
Currently we have the existing architecture Client -> Traffic Manager -> Load Balancer -> VMSS where the API is deployed in the VMSS Instance. Now due to security issue, we have to replace the traffic manager to Azure Front Door. I…
Query string caching behavior "Use Query String" is being ignored in Azure Front Door
We have an Front Door serving our main website and CDN for that website. CDN endpoint uses main website as origin. We want to serve all javascript and css files via CDN, we put file content hash to the url parameter in order to trigger cache update after…
Azure Front Door having problem with forwarding Authentication Bearer token
Hello all, I am experimenting a design as below and ran into some issues. Would be helpful if you can assist on the same. Design: I have an AWS S3 exposed via AWS Cloudfront with a custom domain already (say oldsite.com). Now I am trying to configure…
Azure Front Door SSL Certificate Mismatch with IIS Backend – 502 Error
A customer has an application hosted on a VM running IIS, and it is using Azure Front Door (AFD). The AFD configuration uses the public IP of the VM as the host origin, with the domain name rhino.micology.com configured in DNS and pointing to the AFD…
Front Door and CDN profile - CommittingMigration
I had 2 MS front door / CDN profiles setup they were both prompting me to migrate them from the classic Microsoft CDN to the new Front Door Standard / Premium. I followed all of the steps for the recommended migration process and on the first everything…
Front Door Can't Be Added
both subscriptions give error msg Microsoft.Cdn is not registered for the subscription.
Need Guidance about Segregate URL traffic by using Azure Front Door
Hi Team, Need Guidance about how to Segregate location wise URL traffic by using Azure Front Door.
Azure front door always showing one origin
Hy, I'm having unexplainable issues with front door and origin group. I have configured two origins of container instances into one origin group. The purpose of it is to have two copies of application, so that deploying updates doesn't cause application…
How to configure a third-party DNS for apex domain on Azure Front Page?
I am configuring custom domains on Azure front door and the DNS service is not hosted on Azure (therefore using “all other DNS services” option when adding the custom domains. I configure the following in the DMS zone file for the domain (propagation is…

Front Door IP
Is possible to ask Microsoft to give us a range of the IP's for Front Door? We have some issues with firewalls don't support URL Microsoft Q&A i found on web : "Does the anycast IP of my Front Door remain the same throughout its lifetime? The IP…

How to know which managed rule blocking the request in Azure frontdoor managed WAF rules
Hi Team, We are using Azure frontdoor premium and we have set prevention mode for frontdoor WAF rules. We have set diagnostic settings to log Azurefrontdoor WAF rules but could not find how to check WAF logs. Kindly let us know how we can check which…

Homepage Redirect Issue with Custom Permalinks and Static Page on Azure Front Door
Hello, I've encountered a redirect issue with my WordPress site configured behind Azure Front Door, and I hope to receive some guidance. Setup Overview: Domain: I'm hosting the WordPress site on a custom domain using Azure Front Door. The application…
How to Configure Redirect Rule in AFD rules engine
We have Azure FrontDoor Premium. We are trying to implement a rule for URL Redirect. We configured the condition to Match a header value and action to URL redirect 308 to New url (ex: example.com) with Match incoming request, All the other fields are…
Front Door Standard | Blue/Green | 404 Error
I've followed this guide to create a Blue/Green deployment, but when I add a 2nd origin I get a 404 error on the 1st origin that was initially working. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/blue-green-deployment This is what I'm trying to…
Azure Front Door Health Probe Marking Backend as Healthy Despite 4XX Response
I’m facing an issue with Azure Front Door (AFD) health probes where a backend is returning a 403 response, but AFD still considers it healthy. This is causing unexpected routing behavior, as traffic continues to be sent to an unhealthy backend instead of…
No traffic is checked by Front Door WAF
I upgraded my Front Door from standard to premium. I created a WAF policy with the defaults and associated it with my front door. However, it doesn't log anything to FrontDoorWebApplicationFirewallLog and the metric Web Application Firewall Request Count…


Azure Front Door Health Probe Sending Multiple Requests – How to Reduce PoPs?
I’m using Azure Front Door (AFD) in a multi-region setup and noticed that health probes are generating a high number of requests to my backend services. Since AFD performs health checks from multiple Points of Presence (PoPs), this is causing unnecessary…