Traffic Mirroring Overview

Traffic Mirroring Overview An architecture diagram generated by Archify. Client · sends requests · Architecture component Client sends requests Version 1 · actual response · Production · subset: v1 Version 1 actual response subset: v1 Version 2 · response ignored · Shadow (Mirror) · subset: v2 Version 2 response ignored subset: v2 Request Response Replicate Ignored Production Shadow (Mirror) Legend Backend External

Solid: live request/response traffic

  • • route.destination subset v1 returns the actual response to the client

Dashed: mirrored traffic

  • • The same request is replicated to mirror.host subset v2 and its response is discarded
  • • mirrorPercentage controls the share replicated (100% or 10%)