Has anyone setup Log Insight Load Balancing?

[thepj]

Good Morning,

We are attempting to setup Log Insight in a load balanced, and clustered configuration. After searching tirelessly for blogs, question on this forum, or others that have completed this and shared their setup I have found nothing. The only thing that comes close is http://sflanders.net/2014/05/01/log-insight-2-0-beta-load-balancing/ , but only states that HOW to do it will come in a future post!

I was going to setup HA Proxy, but from my understanding it will not handle UDP traffic the way that Log Insight will want the have the information sent to it. Since we are wanting to send most, if not all, of the syslog traffic to the Log Insight box, we would need to use UDP 514.

Those that have actually setup the load balancing, did you follow a guide? If not, would you mind sharing how you acomplished setting up your environment to load balance between multiple workers?

Any assistance is much appreciated!

-Patrick

[sflanders · Accepted solution]

Hey Patrick,

I just posted a more how-to guide this morning: http://sflanders.net/2014/06/24/log-insight-external-load-balancer-configurations/

You can use HAproxy, but if you require UDP then you are correct in that it will not meet your needs. If you are looking for an open/free alternative, have a look at: Downloads | Zen Load Balancer

If you have any additional questions, please let me know!

[thepj]

This is awesome! I glanced over it real quick, and will fully read it later today.

Exactly what I was looking for!