This Post will show you how to add Worker Nodes to create a Cluster.

Log Insight can scale out by using multiple virtual Appliance's. This enables what we call Linear Scaling of ingestion throughput, increases query performance and allows for ingestion high availability. In a cluster mode, Log Insight provides two types of Node, Master and Worker. Both the Master and the worker nodes are responsible for a subset of data but the Master nodes can query all subsets of data and aggregate the results.

Getting Started

Like with the Master Node, you will see the Same Screen.

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This time you will need to select "Join Existing Deployment"

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Enter the IP or FQDN of the Master Node and click "Go".

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Once Joined, you will then need to access the Cluster Management Page on the master and authorise the worker to join.

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Click "Click here to access the Cluster Management Page"

You will then be directed back to the Master Node's Login Screen as show in the screenshot below.

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Once Logged in, you will need to allow the new Worker Node.

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Once Joined you then see the Master and the workers broken down into two different sections, as shown in the screenshot provided below.

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There you have it, We have created a Cluster with a Master Node and a Worker Node.

Look Forward to Part 3, Where we look at Load Balancing these Nodes using KEMP's Load Master.