Hi Konstantin, Riak exposes a number of metrics - such as counters and histograms - that you can use to monitor your nodes' health. Metrics are available through the HTTP API via the /stats endpoint. For details, see: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/running/stats-and-monitoring/
Cheers, Roberto Aloi @robertoaloi On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Konstantin Kalin <[email protected] > wrote: > Sorry jumping into the discussion. What is a best way to monitor Riak node > health? Most loadbalancer uses HTTP request to check if a node is alive. > > Currently we use Riak Java client to load balance requests to Riak. The > issue is if a node gets removed or added all Java servers need to update > configuration to reflect the changes. It's kinda annoying for operation > team. So we started thinking about putting LB between Riak cluster and Java > clients. > > Thank you, > Konstantin. > > > On Feb 2, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Gideon de Kok <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark, > > Your throughput of your total cluster will still be dependent on the > throughput on that specific node: > It can coordinate requests, but stays responsible for the actual response > to the client. > > Load balancers not only help to increase performance by fanning out the > requests to multiple servers, > it will also increase the availability of your cluster in terms of client > to server connections. > > Cheers, > > On 2 Feb 2014 at 17:20:28, markrthomas > ([email protected]<//[email protected]>) > wrote: > > Hello > > Any node in a Riak cluster can coordinate requests for any other Riak node > that is responsible for the data you're reading/writing. > > What is the advantage of fronting a Riak cluster with a load-balancer? > > Thanks > > Mark > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://riak-users.197444.n3.nabble.com/Load-balancer-tp4030414.html > Sent from the Riak Users mailing list archive at > Nabble.com<http://nabble.com/> > . > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > -- Roberto Aloi --- Website: http://roberto-aloi.com Twitter: @robertoaloi
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