[Feature] Add weighted load balancing support for RPC providers
@DaMandal0rian ya está trabajando en esto.
Desde el 14/8/2025.
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Descripción
Problem
Currently, Graph Node uses a sequential failover approach for RPC providers. It attempts to use the first configured provider and only moves to the next provider if there are issues or if a required feature is not available. This means traffic is not distributed across providers - instead, the first healthy provider handles all requests until it fails.
This limitation prevents operators from:
- Distributing load across multiple healthy RPC endpoints
- Utilizing all available RPC capacity efficiently
- Preventing single provider overload when multiple endpoints are available
- Optimizing costs by balancing requests across providers with different pricing
- Achieving true high availability through active load distribution
Proposed Solution
Implement weighted random load balancing for RPC provider selection, allowing operators to configure traffic distribution percentages for each endpoint.
Example Use Cases
- Performance-based routing: Direct 80% of traffic to a high-performance dedicated node and 20% to a backup
- Cost optimization: Route 90% to cheaper endpoints and 10% to premium endpoints for critical requests
- Gradual rollout: Start a new provider at 5% traffic and increase as confidence grows
- Capacity management: Distribute load according to each endpoint's actual capacity
Implementation
I've created PR #[YOUR_PR_NUMBER] that adds this functionality with:
- Configurable decimal weights (0.0-1.0) per RPC provider
- New
--weighted-rpc-steeringCLI flag and config option - Backward compatibility (defaults to equal weights when not specified)
- Weighted random selection algorithm for provider choice
Configuration Example
[chains.mainnet]
weighted_rpc_steering = true
provider = [
{
label = "primary-node",
details = { type = "web3", url = "https://fast.example.com", weight = 0.7 }
},
{
label = "secondary-node",
details = { type = "web3", url = "https://medium.example.com", weight = 0.2 }
},
{
label = "backup-node",
details = { type = "web3", url = "https://backup.example.com", weight = 0.1 }
}
]
Related Work
- PR - Implementation of weighted load balancing
- This addresses a common request for managing multiple RPC endpoints with varying characteristics
Are you aware of any blockers that must be resolved before implementing this feature? If so, which? Link to any relevant GitHub issues.
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