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Looking for examples on traffic shapping

Chelo Moreira

We are running a 4 node Jira DC, and we would like to re-direct all REST traffic to a specific server. We use Apache as a load balancer. We have tried using "RewriteEngine" but I keep getting 401, it works when we try rest calls that don't required login.

Does anyone have any real world example of how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

This is a question for your load-balancer software, not really an Atlassian thing - all they have on it is https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/traffic-distribution-with-atlassian-data-center-895912660.html

I've successfully followed the instructions in there, but it wasn't an F5 as you suggest you're using.

Chelo Moreira

Hi, yes but I was wondering if anyone has successfully done it with Apache.

We are not using F5 firewalls, we use linux servers with apache 2.4 installed in them.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Ah, right, well that is in the docs!

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-apache-as-a-load-balancer-for-confluence-data-center-970602623.html

You can skip the web-sockets bit for Jira

Chelo Moreira

Thank you, I saw that and we have configured that way for Confluence.

The configuration example that I am asking for, is for Jira datacenter

Maciej Swinarski

Hi,

If the reason for such approach is to make sure rest traffic does not affect other users (UI) operations, I would suggest trying another approach and use rate limiting (for rest): https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/improving-instance-stability-with-rate-limiting-983794911.html

If the rest traffic is not read-only each operation will still affect all other nodes (and user actions on those nodes) so the separation will not be really effective.

mac

Jennifer Hall

No answer but have the same scenario and also looking to see if this has ever been succesfully done. I would hope someone has successfully done this with Apache given it's a Load Balancer called out in Atlassian documentation.

Chelo Moreira

After a long time researching and trying, I was able to re-route the REST traffic as per our standards.

This is what we did:

For 2-3 months, monitored the access logs for all different agents that accessed Jira and took note of them.
We put the following on our apache config file:

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This is not the best solution but it does the job.
Hope this can help other people too.