https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-Db-Connect-with-Forwaders/m-p/372038#M19151 <P>We want to ingest data from databases to our indexer .Would it be recommended to use heavy forwarder or UF ? Also can i load balanced the data between my indexer by making changes in output.conf?<BR /> Recommendation please </P> Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:39:28 GMT aab5272 2017-06-27T12:39:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-Db-Connect-with-Forwaders/m-p/372038#M19151 <P>We want to ingest data from databases to our indexer .Would it be recommended to use heavy forwarder or UF ? Also can i load balanced the data between my indexer by making changes in output.conf?<BR /> Recommendation please </P> Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:39:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-Db-Connect-with-Forwaders/m-p/372038#M19151 aab5272 2017-06-27T12:39:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-Db-Connect-with-Forwaders/m-p/372039#M19152 <P>You must use search heads and/or heavy forwarders: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/3.0.3/DeployDBX/Distributeddeployment">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/3.0.3/DeployDBX/Distributeddeployment</A></P> <P>Forwarders can handle the load balancing without adding hardware: <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.0/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.0/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd</A></P> Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:13:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-Db-Connect-with-Forwaders/m-p/372039#M19152 dmaislin_splunk 2017-06-27T14:13:00Z