Patent ID: 11947988
Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by an intake ingestion buffer from a load balancer, a service discovery message;
identifying that a first virtual machine in the intake ingestion buffer separate from the load balancer has a processing load less than a threshold level;
transmitting, to the load balancer, a public address of the first virtual machine;
receiving, at the first virtual machine from a computing device, a request to write raw machine data to a first topic;
determining, by the first virtual machine, that a second virtual machine in the intake ingestion buffer is associated with the first topic;
transmitting, from the first virtual machine to the computing device and bypassing the load balancer, a public address of the second virtual machine; and
in response to transmission of the public address of the second virtual machine, receiving, at the second virtual machine from the computing device and bypassing the load balancer, the raw machine data.