automatic load balancing

noun

A type of load balancing, in which a forwarder uses a specified time interval to determine when to begin sending data to the next available receiving indexer. The default interval is 30 seconds.

There is another type of load balancing, known as round-robin load balancing. In that type, the forwarder switches to a new receiver at each new event. Automatic load balancing is nearly always a better solution.

Important: Starting with release 4.2, round-robin load balancing has been deprecated.

Related forms

For more information

In the Distributed Deployment manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time