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The [Azure Application Gateway](/azure/application-gateway/overview) processes network traffic to web apps hosted on a pool of web servers. The processing performed by Azure Application Gateway includes load balancing HTTP traffic and inspecting traffic using a web application firewall. This type of routing is known as application layer (OSI layer 7) load balancing. Azure Application Gateway includes the following features:
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The [Azure Application Gateway](/azure/application-gateway/overview) processes network traffic to web apps hosted on a pool of web servers. The processing performed by Azure Application Gateway includes load balancing HTTP traffic and inspecting traffic using a web application firewall. This type of routing is known as application layer (OSI layer 7) load balancing. A
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Azure Application Gateway v2 includes the following features.
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- Support for the HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, and WebSocket protocols.
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- A web application firewall (WAF) to protect against web application vulnerabilities.
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- End-to-end request encryption.
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- SSL/TLS termination at the gateway, offloading encryption overhead from backend servers.
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- End-to-end TLS encryption for compliance scenarios requiring encryption to the backend.
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- Autoscaling to dynamically adjust capacity as your web traffic load change.
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- Connection draining allowing graceful removal of backend pool members during planned service updates.
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- Session stickiness to ensure client requests in the same session are routed to the same backend server.
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- Path and URL based routing.
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- Path and URL based routing.
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- Zone redundancy, Azure key vault integration, and HTTP header rewrite.
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> [!Note]
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> Support for Application Gateway V1 ends on April 28, 2026.
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## How Azure Application Gateway works
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- **Health probes**. Health probes determine which servers are available for load-balancing in a backend pool. Servers are automatically added and removed from the backend pool based on their availability.
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> [!TIP]
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> Learn more about Azure Application Gateway check out the [Introduction to Azure Application Gateway](/training/modules/intro-to-azure-application-gateway/) module.
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> Learn more about Azure Application Gateway check out the [Introduction to Azure Application Gateway](/training/modules/intro-to-azure-application-gateway/) module.

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