Release notes

Product Introduction

• What is Server Load Balancer?
• High availability of SLB
• Architecture
• Features
• Scenarios
• Terms

Pricing

• Billing method
• Overdue payments
• Monitoring data and billing data

Quick Start (New Console)

• Tutorial overview
• Before you begin
• Create an SLB instance
• Configure an SLB instance
• Resolve a domain name
• Delete an SLB instance

Instance

• SLB instance overview
• Network traffic flow
• Create an SLB instance
• Create an IPv6 instance
• Start or stop an SLB instance
• Associate an EIP with an SLB instance
• Tags
• Change the specification of an SLB instance
• Release an SLB instance
• Expiring Instances
• Health checks of SLB instances
• Manage idle instances
• FAQ

Listeners

• Listener overview
• Add a TCP listener
• Add a UDP listener
• Add an HTTP listener
• Add an HTTPS listener
• Domain name extensions
• Manage TLS security policies
• Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS
• FAQ

Backend servers

• Backend server overview
• Default server groups
• VServer groups
• Active/standby server groups
• Add private IP addresses of ENIs to backend servers
• FAQ

Certificate management

• Certificate requirements
• Create a certificate
• Generate a CA certificate
• Convert the certificate format
• Replace a certificate

Health check

• Health check overview
• Configure health checks
• Disable the health check function
• FAQ

Limits

• Limits
• Peak bandwidths in different regions
• Manage quotas

Common Configurations

• Peak bandwidth limit
• Anti-DDoS Basic
• API Inspector
• Multi-zone deployment
• Achieve cross-region load balancing through Global Traffic Manager

Access control

• Configure access control
• Access control lists
• Enable access control
• Disable access control
• Migrate to the new access control

Log management

• View operation logs
• Health check logs
• Configure access logs
• Authorize a RAM user to use access logs
• FAQ

Monitoring

• View monitoring data
• Configure alarm rules

Tutorials

• Add an HTTPS listener (one-way authentication)
• Add an HTTPS listener (mutual authentication)
• Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
• Configure a multi-domain-name HTTPS website on an SLB instance
• Traffic forwarding based on domain names or URLs
• Use access logs to rapidly locate abnormal backend servers
• View traffic usage
• Specify an IP address for an SLB instance with OpenAPI Explorer

FAQ

• Why am I unable to access the SLB instance?
• Why is the traffic among my ECS instances unevenly distributed?
• Obtain real client IP addresses
• What can I do if health checks generate an excessive number of logs?
• What can I do if my ECS instance is declared unhealthy after I enable health checks for Server Load Balancer?
• How do I troubleshoot health check exceptions of a Layer-4 (TCP/UDP) listener?
• Troubleshoot a health check exception of a Layer-7 listener (HTTP/HTTPS)
• How do I perform a stress test?
• How do I troubleshoot HTTP 5xx errors?
• Billing FAQ
• SLB instance FAQ
• Guaranteed-performance instance FAQ
• Server Load Balancer FAQs
• Backend server FAQs
• Health check FAQ
• HTTPS and HTTP listener FAQs
• WS and WSS support FAQs

Developer Guide

• API overview
• Call SLB APIs
• Common parameters
• Obtain an Access Key
• RAM authentication
• Server Load Balancer (SLB) instances
• UDP listeners
• TCP listeners
• HTTP listeners
• HTTPS listeners
• Listeners
• Backend servers
• VServer groups
• Active/standby server groups
• Server certificates
• Domain name extensions (Beta)
• Quota query
• Tags
• Forwarding rules
• Access control
• Access control (earlier version)

Archives

• User Guide (Old Console)