Load balancing for oap-server

[vishalkadam18]

Hi Team,

If bulk or multiple requests come to the OAP server, how can we scale its instances or nodes and implement load balancing?

Thanks,
Vishal Kadam

[wu-sheng]

There is cluster mode for oap. https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/latest/en/setup/backend/backend-cluster/

For LB, there are two options

1. Any proxy could be connections oriented LB, e.g. nginx, envoy
2. SkyWalking native LB, satellite. It provides protocol data level LB. It balances traffic better, but costs more as well.

Check details in, https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/latest/en/setup/backend/backend-load-balancer/