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.

[Chelo Moreira · Accepted solution]

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:

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

[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. 

[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

[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

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It is pretty much the same, you can dump the synchrony parts out and change the urls.

[Chelo Moreira]

OK, we already have apache configured to work with Jira Datacenter, what I am asking here is for help on traffic shapping.