[systemd-bugs] [Bug 89185] New: RFE: Support load-balancing targets in systemd-journal-upload

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89185

            Bug ID: 89185
           Summary: RFE: Support load-balancing targets in
                    systemd-journal-upload
           Product: systemd
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
          Assignee: systemd-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: duncan at innes.net
        QA Contact: systemd-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org

s-j-upload currently supports a single remote target for streaming logs to.
Ticket https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89184 is an RFE to expand
this to provide more than 1 target for failover purposes.
This ticket is requesting that the targets can be used in a load-balanced
manner.
At this point, I don't believe the method of load balancing is important.  If a
pair (or more) of log receivers are built to cater for failover, it would not
be wise for all logs to go to the receiver #1 under normal circumstances, only
to use receiver #2 in failover circumstances.  Clients could be configured to
randomly swap the order of --url targets at configuration time, but this still
allows the heaviest systems to end up with the same receiver #1.
I'm not sure if it would be insensible to round-robin every log entry across
the configured targets, or whether a randomised timer could call for a
switch-over at reasonable points.

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