Created 7 months ago by Guest Load Balancers 0 1 VOTE Make metrics available through the API Currently only configuration data is available through the api. Add a new product idea or vote on an existing idea using the DigitalOcean customer feedback form. This data source provides all of the load balancers properties as configured on your DigitalOcean account.
This is useful if the load balancer in question is not managed by Terraform or you need to utilize any of the load balancers data. Get information on a load balancer for use in other resources. The load balancer is merely the receiver of the initial request to the site and then they are handed off to the application where they will all do the same work. DigitalOcean today announced the launch of its new load balancing service for developers who run their applications on its platform. Supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and bare TCP streams at launch, the load balancer … DigitalOcean has added another feature to its cloud-hosting offerings: load balancers. DigitalOcean Load Balancer is a tool in the Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy category of a tech stack.
As you can see in the above image taken from the Digital Ocean Article '5 DigitalOcean Load Balancer Use Cases' , the load balancer will allow us to create a pool of similar resources, and scale our application in this way. I would like to have metrics available as well like: Status, Downtime, Queue, Health Checks. Customer Feedback for DigitalOcean . When managing certificates attached to the load balancer, make sure to add the create_before_destroy lifecycle property in order to ensure the certificate is correctly updated when changed. It would be great to introduce support for SAN Let's Encrypt certificates to the DigitalOcean Load Balancer product.