Introducing Health Checks & Load Balancing In Pangolin Cloud

We're excited to announce that health checks and automatic failover are now live in Pangolin Cloud and managed Pangolin instances! This powerful combination of intelligent load balancing and automated health monitoring makes it incredibly simple to build resilient, high-availability applications that can handle failures gracefully.

What's New?

Target-Level Site Assignment

We've restructured how sites work in Pangolin. Instead of attaching sites directly to resources, sites are now attached to individual targets. This architectural change unlocks new capabilities:

• Cross-site redundancy: Deploy targets across different sites for geographic failover
• Cross-site load balancing: Load balance users between different sites hosting many instances of the application

Automatic Load Balancing

When you add multiple targets to a resource, Pangolin automatically begins round-robin load balancing between them if they are attached to the same node. Traffic is distributed evenly across all healthy targets.

Intelligent Health Monitoring

The health check system continuously monitors your targets from inside Newt and automatically removes unhealthy instances from the load balancing rotation.

See It In Action

Here's how simple it is to set up high-availability load balancing: