Dear All, The Graylog document says only one of the Graylog cluster nodes is master. I am assuming this is active/standby HA. So, do anyone know that if you can simply use Linux Heartbeat HA instead of a proxy/load-balancer solution for a multi-node Graylog deployment? Thanks.

There is no load balancing in your scheme, just failover/redundancy. Load balancing is needed when you have for example 2 GL nodes and specific Input is running on each of them. If you have balancer then it can route requests to both nodes. Without balancer all requests will go to the same node(w…

Linux Heartbeat instead of Load-Balancer for multi-node Graylog

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bbfunde December 14, 2020, 10:27am 5

Thanks. You clear my mind with the Graylog master/slave explanation.

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Linux Heartbeat instead of Load-Balancer for multi-node Graylog

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