Stop Double Monitoring: NGINX Plus API Helping BIG-IP

How do you prevent double monitoring when a Load Balancer load balances a Load Balancer? Using the NGINX Plus API we can leverage a BIG-IP to monitor the state of your applications and avoi...
Published Nov 14, 2019
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Jan 03, 2020

 very nice! I have another blog post coming up that is similar in idea. The basic idea is to collect the number of available upstreams and use that as information to update the BIG-IP. The article uses NGINX JavaScript (NJS) to do the lookup on NGINX (vs. externally via Python). Once the article is posted; I'll post the link here.