Uneven load balancing when forwarding logs to syslog server using OpenShift Logging
Issue
- Delay in log ingestion by external
syslog
servers which are backed by aLoad Balancer
, when forwarding logs using Red Hat OpenShift Logging. - When forwarding logs to syslog endpoint, the load is not evenly distributed to syslog servers which are behind a load balancer.
Vector
opens a singleTCP
connection to aLoad Balancer
, the load balancer typically sticks to the same backend for the duration of that connection, until the pods are restarted.- How to configure
max_connection_duration_secs
forVector
socket sink ?
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
- 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Logging (RHOL)
- 5
- 6
- Vector
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