Support for load-balancing

[Owned333]

Hello,

From the documentation, I see that Quickwit supports Load-balancing:

Load-balancing is made with rendezvous hashing to allow for efficient caching.

https://quickwit.io/docs/overview/architecture#searchers

However, no details on setting it up.

Could somebody please specify how to add supporting for Load-balancing? Or send links / code examples where this is done?

[fulmicoton]

You don't have to set up anything.

When you run a search request on a given node this node will act as a coordinator (we call it the root node) for the span of this query . It will split the work and dispatch it amongst the other nodes. That's where we use rendez vous hashing. This logic is internal to quickwit.

Now you might want to have load balancing to spread your request amongst the node. It does not matter as much, but a simple round robin load balancer will do the job. If you use k8s, the searcher k8s service will do that job for you.