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Zen_Y's avatar
Zen_Y
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Oct 30, 2024

Default retry time inband monitor

Hi team

I'm looking for a little information, about what causes the inband monitor on ltm to be set by default to have a retry time value of 300 seconds.
Does this retry time rule affect performance in the data sending process? for example, when I set the retry time to 1s, the member health check will open every 1s. Does that pose a risk for this passive monitor?

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  • Paulius's avatar
    Paulius
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    Oct 30, 2024

    I could see this causing an issue if you have multiple monitors and some sort of rate limiting on the server side. In addition, depending on the monitor, you will be opening a new connection every time you run the monitor. This becomes an even larger issue if you have thousands of health monitors running simultaneously but at low pool member/monitor levels it shouldn't really be an issue.