round-robin load balancing

noun

A type of load balancing, in which the forwarder switches to a new receiver at each new event.

There is another type of load balancing, known as automatic load balancing. In that type, the forwarder uses a specified time interval to determine when to begin sending data to the next available receiving indexer. In nearly all cases, automatic load balancing is a better solution.

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

Related terms

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