https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Does-a-forwarder-implement-load-balancing-when-sending-data-to/m-p/178614#M35816 <P>If a Splunk forwarder is sending information to a non Splunk indexer does the forwarder use the same load balancing logging/capabilities or is the information sent in a round robin fashion?</P> Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:32:34 GMT Mick 2014-03-07T22:32:34Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Does-a-forwarder-implement-load-balancing-when-sending-data-to/m-p/178614#M35816 <P>If a Splunk forwarder is sending information to a non Splunk indexer does the forwarder use the same load balancing logging/capabilities or is the information sent in a round robin fashion?</P> Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:32:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Does-a-forwarder-implement-load-balancing-when-sending-data-to/m-p/178614#M35816 Mick 2014-03-07T22:32:34Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Does-a-forwarder-implement-load-balancing-when-sending-data-to/m-p/178615#M35817 <P>By default, Splunk forwarders will always use auto-LB when forwarding to any destination, Splunk indexer or otherwise. The forwarder will only use round-robin when you configure it to, but this is unlikely to work well when using a universal forwarder, as it will not parse the data before sending.</P> Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:35:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Does-a-forwarder-implement-load-balancing-when-sending-data-to/m-p/178615#M35817 Mick 2014-03-07T22:35:14Z