Creating health probes with Azure Portal

The health probe is used for the load balancer to monitor the status of the VM. The probe will dynamically add or remove VMs from the load balancer rotation, based on the response to the health checks that are performed by the health probe.

1. Again, open the Load Balancer resource.
2. Under Settings, select Health probes, and then select Add:
   
3. Add the following values:
   Name: Give it a name
   Protocol: HTTP.
   Port: 80.
   Path: /
   Interval: 15—this is the number of seconds between probe attempts.
   Unhealthy threshold: 2—this value is the number of consecutive probe failures that occur before a VM is considered unhealthy.