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Nimbostratus

Jan 30, 2018

Load balancing syslog to a pool of syslog receivers

I am trying to come up with a way to load balance a large amount of syslog messages that are coming from a single node. I created a stateless VIP. I created a UDP profile with LB datagram an...

devops

LTM

Lee_Sutcliffe

Nacreous

Have you created a UDP profile with "Datagram LB" enabled?

cpt_ri_F5

Cirrostratus

Jan 27, 2023

Hello,

For me, UDP profile with "Datagram LB" enabled, split between the two nodes evenly, but I do not receive the same quantity of logs!

You encounter this problem?

Thanks!

buulam
Admin
Jan 28, 2023
Hi cpt_ri_F5 what ratio of load balancing are you getting?
- boneyard
  MVP
  Jan 29, 2023
  For reference, discussion pretty much continues here:
  
  https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-forum/udp-datagram-lb/m-p/309048
  - buulam
    Admin
    Jan 30, 2023
    boneyard ah thanks for linking!
- cpt_ri_F5
  Cirrostratus
  Jan 28, 2023
  Hello, ratio 50% 50%, but 80% of lost logs!