Load Balancer Setup

Health Endpoint

The MetaDefender® MFT service exposes a dedicated health check endpoint designed for load balancer integration. Your load balancer can periodically poll this endpoint and use the HTTP response code to decide whether to route traffic to each node.

Routing Logic

• Healthy: Any 2xx response means the node is ready to handle traffic.

• Unhealthy: Any 5xx response or request timeout means the node is not ready — traffic should be routed to other healthy nodes.