Release notes

Product Introduction

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

Pricing

• Overdue payments
• Monitoring data and billing data
• Server Load Balancer billing FAQ
• Billing method

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
• 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
• How do I obtain real IP addresses of clients?

Backend servers

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

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
• Health check FAQ

Limits

• Limits
• Peak bandwidths in different regions
• Manage quotas

Common Configurations

• Peak bandwidth limit
• Anti-DDoS Basic
• API Inspector
• WS and WSS support FAQs
• 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
• Access logs

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 locate unhealthy backend servers
• How do I perform a stress test?
• 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?
• 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?
• How do I troubleshoot a health check exception of a layer-7 (HTTP/HTTPS) listener?
• How do I troubleshoot HTTP 5xx errors?
• Configure cookie in the backend server
• Session persistence FAQ

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)