how **cookie based affinity** works on vmss downsizing in Application Gateway

Raghava Sai Akula 346 Reputation points
2022-11-21T19:50:54.997+00:00

Hi there,
I was wondering how cookie based affinity in Application Gateway works while downsizing VMSS instance

I am having 2 VMSS instances with IIS installed & has 10+ .NET applications, if my CPU usage goes up by>70% for 5 mins if will spin up new instance(3rd instance) and route the traffic to the newly created one , but suddenly if the CPU percentage comes <50% then it will automatically delete newest instance that is created.
but what if one my request is still active on 3rd(newly created instance ). will my VM(3rd instance)wait for the request to complete or simply shutdown the instance?

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  1. msrini-MSFT 9,261 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-11-26T08:20:25.877+00:00

    Hi,

    You can configure the connection draining settings in the HTTP Settings of the Application gateway so the on-going session to the removed instance will exist for the configured time.

    Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-gateway/configuration-http-settings#connection-draining

    Regards,
    Karthik Srinivas

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  1. srbhatta-MSFT 8,546 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-11-25T05:14:51.747+00:00

    Hello @Raghava Sai Akula ,
    Welcome to Microsoft QnA Platform.
    The 3rd VMSS instance will not wait for the request to complete, the instance will be removed when your threshold value is reach (CPU < 50%) for over 5 minutes.
    Hope that clears your query. Let me know if you have any further questions.

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