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Using Grafana Loki with HAProxy for log aggregation
In today's security-conscious world, logs are crucial for gaining insight into your systems...
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Integrations
Seamlessly integrate your load balancer with your tech stack. Discover guides for cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps tools (Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform), essential monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus), and enable full API-driven automation.
Andrew Smalley
How to create a load balancer SSL/TLS certificates report
A customer asked me how to export a list of SSL/TLS certificate expiry dates from our load balancer appliance...
Integrations
How-tos
Automation
Rob Cooper
Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze, and visualize the data gathered from the components of your IT infrastructure or business...
Storage
GSLB
Integrations
Dave Saunders
NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...
Open source
How-tos
Integrations
Andrew Smalley
How to automate load balancer deployments (API / CLI / JSON / SOAP / PowerShell)
For our v8.4.1 release we added network, routing and HA functions to LBCLI, allowing you to completely automate the entire deployment from initial power-on to a fully configured HA pair...
Automation
Integrations
Thorsten Wetzig
How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy
Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Security
High Availability
Andrew Smalley
How to automate legacy load balancer deployments
Automation is very important for many organisations, which is why it's one of the core features of our upcoming V9 release...
Automation
How-tos
Integrations
Rob Cooper
How to enhance Microsoft IIS health checks using VBscript
By default, the load balancer uses a TCP connect to the port defined in the Virtual Service to verify the health of each real (backend) server. For IIS, this would typically be port 80...
Microsoft
Integrations
Rob Cooper
Stunnel X-Forward-For (XFF) with HAProxy and the PROXY Protocol
By default, the source IP address of the packet reaching the web servers is the IP address of the load balancer and not the IP address of the client...
Open source
HAProxy
How-tos
Mark Brookes
SSL offload testing with HAProxy and Stunnel
There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...
Open source
HAProxy
How-tos
Mark Brookes
NTLM authenticating proxy check script
This script was designed primarily to be tied into Ldirectord but feel free to adapt it to your needs, and if you do make changes dont be a stranger post your adaptations below!..
How-tos
Integrations
Rob Cooper
Apache and X-Forwarded-For Header: How to log XFF using Apache
There’s been a lot of debate here in the office about how best to capture both your Loadbalancer’s IP and the Source IP of the user in your access_log in Apache 2.4. This is the tried and tested method we've come up with...
Application Management
How-tos
High Availability
Rob Cooper
IIS and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
Although it's not technically a standard, the X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header is incredibly useful if you have any kind of proxy in front of your web servers...
How-tos
Integrations