Hi again,

I've done some more digging and found that the table umbracoCacheInstruction stores a log of all changes made. I know that every worker checks this table for the latest instruction and I assume that each worker stores a local file of which version the worker has processed.

When I look in the file system of the site I find App_Data/Temp/DistCache. In here I find a file which ends with -lastsynced. But the problem is that when i open that file I find a number that is way off according to the db table.

Very strange!?

Hi Fredrik,

There is a community package that you can install to help with debugging load balancing issues. Probably a good start: https://github.com/marcemarc/Our.Umbraco.Healthchecks.LoadBalancing

Hi Thomas,

Thx for the reply. I installed it on the back office and got no errors.. everything seems to be looking fine. I must wait until tonight to install in on the front ends since I dont want to disrupt the site during business hours.

I was wondering where the environment temp folder is and how to access it without writing more code.. I just want to check the -lastsynced file on each worker.

Ok,

So I've installed the health check and I can see all 3 servers in the load balancing pool. The problem now is that content still isn't updating.

Question: The UmbracoApplicationUrl should be set to the master server corret? If I have 2 web apps... on admin.domain.com and on www.domain.com that UmbracoApplicationUrl on all instances should be set to admin.domain.com/umbraco

Just to be clear, right?!

I'm having a really similar issue

I have 4 app services (1 admin, 3 front end) on Azure. Front end servers sit behind a traffic manager. I have followed the load balancing docs and have configured the temp storage and examine etc. When publishing changes on the admin server, changes aren't pushing through to all servers. Restarting the servers 1 at a time seems to push the changes through.

Have you got any further with diagnosing this?

So I've updated to the admin.domain.com/umbraco.

I still got issues that only one node is updating when the other is still keeping the old information.

Any ideas?

Hi Fredrik,

I seem to have fixed this on my site.....

The umbracoApplicationUrl had my admin server's HTTPS url but I had umbracoUseSSL set to false in the web.config. Changing umbracoUseSSL to true seems to have sorted it.

Hope this helps fix yours!

EDIT: Spoke too soon. Still having the issue!!

Hi Andy,

Thx for your reply. I have SSL set correctly ..I'm afraid.

Do you point all your servers to the master umbraco application url or is it just the admin server?

Ah hard luck

All my servers have the umbracoApplicationUrl set to the URL of my admin server so https://{adminURL}.azurewebsites.net

What I can see I've changed the following values (apart from standard installation)

Web.config

<add key="umbracoLocalTempStorage" value="EnvironmentTemp"/>
<add key="umbracoUseSSL" value="true" />
Settings for Redis session state

ExamineSettings.config

<Examine xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
<ExamineIndexProviders>
  <providers>
    <add xdt:Transform="Replace" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" name="InternalIndexer" type="UmbracoExamine.UmbracoContentIndexer, UmbracoExamine"
         supportUnpublished="true"
         supportProtected="true"
         analyzer="Lucene.Net.Analysis.WhitespaceAnalyzer, Lucene.Net"
         directoryFactory="Examine.LuceneEngine.Directories.TempEnvDirectoryFactory,Examine"/>

    <add xdt:Transform="Replace" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" name="InternalMemberIndexer" type="UmbracoExamine.UmbracoMemberIndexer, UmbracoExamine"
         supportUnpublished="true"
         supportProtected="true"
         analyzer="Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard.StandardAnalyzer, Lucene.Net"
         directoryFactory="Examine.LuceneEngine.Directories.TempEnvDirectoryFactory,Examine"/>

  </providers>
</ExamineIndexProviders>

umbracoSettings.config

<web.routing xdt:Transform="Replace"
trySkipIisCustomErrors="true"
internalRedirectPreservesTemplate="false" disableAlternativeTemplates="false" disableFindContentByIdPath="false"
umbracoApplicationUrl="https://admin.domain.com/umbraco">

Non-changed values in web.config

<umbracoConfiguration>
<settings configSource="config\umbracoSettings.config" />
<BaseRestExtensions configSource="config\BaseRestExtensions.config" />
<FileSystemProviders configSource="config\FileSystemProviders.config" />
<dashBoard configSource="config\Dashboard.config" />
<HealthChecks configSource="config\HealthChecks.config" />

Both front end servers and admin server has HTTP2 and force HTTPS enabled in Azure configuration.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated :)

// Fredrik

I may have spoken too soon....looks like my issue is back :(

I have pretty much the same settings as you

Hi Andy,

Did you get any further?

I still have the same issue. Very annoying! I'm thinking about just setting up a blank site and see what "vanilla" settings there are. Then make the necessary changes and test, test, test...

I'm getting gray hairs :)

Thanks for the update Fredrik. I'll give this a try! Although we don't have autoscale enabled for our site.

How are you managing this from a release perspective? We have pipelines set up at the moment to deploy to all our servers including the admin one.

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