What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancer?

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Load Balancer is a cloud-native service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple backend compute instances within your Virtual Cloud Network. The primary functions of an OCI Load Balancer is to ensure your application is highly available, scalable, and resilient to traffic spikes or individual server failures.

Why Monitor Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancer?

The primary job of the load balancer is to ensure zero downtime, which depends entirely on continuous monitoring of its downstream servers. If a server fails, the load balancer automatically stops sending traffic to it. Monitoring alerts you immediately when a backend becomes unhealthy, allowing you to investigate and remediate the underlying server issue. You can monitor for connection errors, HTTP 5xx (Server Error) responses, and backend timeouts. A sudden spike in these metrics often points directly to a server-side problem that the load balancer is revealing. It is hence important that the performance of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancer is monitored 24x7. This is what exactly eG Enterprise offers.