How to locate the right destination to measure end-to-end performance

Copper Contributor

I am trying to write a little script that will initiate TCP traffic to different O365 resources under my subscription and return the delay,packet loss stats. I am having a couple of challenges and need some help to understand how to resolve them:

  • What if I have a main office in Dallas with a bunch of O365 users and I want to execute my script from the same location to test the delay to different services such as Teams, Office etc. How do I locate the correct IP/hostname or WEB API link for each service?
  • What if I have a small branch in Europe with a few employees trying to use O365 under the same subscription, and I want to execute my script from the same location to test the delay to different services such as Teams, Office etc. How do I locate the correct IP/hostname or WEB API link for each service?

Thanks,

 

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Everything is geographically load balanced, so the DNS provider Microsoft uses will always provide you the nearest data center to where your IP address resides.
Check out this article, I am sure you will learn a ton:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365-blog/getting-the-best-connectivity-and-performance...

But here are some hostnames you can use for each service:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/external-domain-name-system-records