Looking for a URL/API to configure on load balancer for SH healthcheck?

[SunilkumarG]

Hi Folks,

we would like Load balancer to check Splunk search head health before redirecting.

Could you please share the URL that be configured on load balancer?

looking at using /debug/echo?ping=OK and parsing for the OK, but that is less than optimal as debug has to be set in web.conf Please suggest an alternative.

[isoutamo · Accepted solution]

Hi

we are using this with LB:s (e.g. F5 or AWS ALB).

http(s)://<server>:<web port>/en-US/account/login?return_to=%2Fen-US%2F

It don't need authentication and it tells if splunk's web interface is up and accepting requests.

r. Ismo

[esix_splunk]

You can use the Health Check API for this. You should be able to check this endpoint : 

https://<host>:8089/services/server/health/splunkd

Here's some more information on this : https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.4/DMC/Usefeaturemonitoring

Cheers

Eric 

[Chance]

AFAIK the health check API requires auth and there is no way to add auth headers to an AWS LB health check

[isoutamo]

This is the reason why I use login url.