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Best recommendation for serach head cluster load balancer

maede_yavari
Explorer

Hi,

I have deployed a search head cluster with 3 members and one deployer. based on splunk document, is recommends that run a third-party hardware or software load balancer in front of the clustered search heads.

does splunk recommend any special load balancer that is most compatible

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Splunk does not recommend any specific load balancer.  They specify only that the LB employ layer-7 (application-level) processing and user sessions are "sticky" or "persistent."

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maede_yavari
Explorer

Hi Richgalloway,

Thanks for your reply.

I consider HAProxy for that because I've had some experience about it. But I want to add LB several month later. does it maybe have some bad effect on the cluster performance? or create some fault on the search process?

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Load balancers help the SHC perform better by evenly distributing users among all nodes.

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