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Table: azure_lb - Query Azure Load Balancers using SQL

Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, ultra low-latency Layer 4 load balancing service for all UDP and TCP protocols. It enables you to build highly scalable and highly available applications by providing automatic routing of network traffic to virtual machines. This service also provides health probes to detect the failure of an application on a virtual machine.

Table Usage Guide

The azure_lb table provides insights into Load Balancers within Azure. As a Network Administrator, explore Load Balancer-specific details through this table, including configuration, location, and operational status. Utilize it to uncover information about Load Balancers, such as their health status, associated resources, and traffic routing rules.

Examples

Basic info

Explore which Azure Load Balancer resources are currently being provisioned in different regions. This is useful for managing and optimizing geographically distributed resources.

select
  id,
  name,
  type,
  provisioning_state,
  etag,
  region
from
  azure_lb;

select
  id,
  name,
  type,
  provisioning_state,
  etag,
  region
from
  azure_lb;

List failed load balancers

Determine the areas in which load balancers have failed within your Azure environment. This can aid in troubleshooting and improving the reliability of your network infrastructure.

select
  id,
  name,
  type,
  provisioning_state
from
  azure_lb
where
  provisioning_state = 'Failed';

select
  id,
  name,
  type,
  provisioning_state
from
  azure_lb
where
  provisioning_state = 'Failed';

Query examples

Control examples

Network load balancers should use standard SKUs as a minimum

Schema for azure_lb

Name	Type	Operators	Description
_ctx	jsonb		Steampipe context in JSON form, e.g. connection_name.
akas	jsonb		Array of globally unique identifier strings (also known as) for the resource.
backend_address_pools	jsonb		Collection of backend address pools used by the load balancer.
cloud_environment	text		The Azure Cloud Environment.
diagnostic_settings	jsonb		A list of active diagnostic settings for the load balancer.
etag	text		A unique read-only string that changes whenever the resource is updated.
extended_location_name	text		The name of the extended location.
extended_location_type	text		The type of the extended location. Possible values include: 'ExtendedLocationTypesEdgeZone'.
frontend_ip_configurations	jsonb		Object representing the frontend IPs to be used for the load balancer.
id	text		The resource ID.
inbound_nat_pools	jsonb		Defines an external port range for inbound NAT to a single backend port on NICs associated with the load balancer. Inbound NAT rules are created automatically for each NIC associated with the Load Balancer using an external port from this range. Defining an Inbound NAT pool on the Load Balancer is mutually exclusive with defining inbound Nat rules. Inbound NAT pools are referenced from virtual machine scale sets. NICs that are associated with individual virtual machines cannot reference an inbound NAT pool. They have to reference individual inbound NAT rules.
inbound_nat_rules	jsonb		Collection of inbound NAT Rules used by the load balancer. Defining inbound NAT rules on the load balancer is mutually exclusive with defining an inbound NAT pool. Inbound NAT pools are referenced from virtual machine scale sets. NICs that are associated with individual virtual machines cannot reference an Inbound NAT pool. They have to reference individual inbound NAT rules.
load_balancing_rules	jsonb		Object collection representing the load balancing rules Gets the provisioning.
name	text	=	The resource name.
outbound_rules	jsonb		The outbound rules.
probes	jsonb		Collection of probe objects used in the load balancer.
provisioning_state	text		The provisioning state of the load balancer resource. Possible values include: 'Succeeded', 'Updating', 'Deleting', 'Failed'.
region	text		The Azure region/location in which the resource is located.
resource_group	text	=	The resource group which holds this resource.
resource_guid	text		The resource GUID property of the load balancer resource.
sku_name	text		Name of the load balancer SKU. Possible values include: 'Basic', 'Standard', 'Gateway'.
sku_tier	text		Tier of the load balancer SKU. Possible values include: 'Regional', 'Global'.
subscription_id	text		The Azure Subscription ID in which the resource is located.
tags	jsonb		A map of tags for the resource.
title	text		Title of the resource.
type	text		The resource type.

Export

This table is available as a standalone Exporter CLI. Steampipe exporters are stand-alone binaries that allow you to extract data using Steampipe plugins without a database.

You can download the tarball for your platform from the Releases page, but it is simplest to install them with the steampipe_export_installer.sh script:

/bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://steampipe.io/install/export.sh)" -- azure

You can pass the configuration to the command with the --config argument:

steampipe_export_azure --config '<your_config>' azure_lb