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[[balancer-servlet]]
=== Balancer Servlet

[[balancer-servlet-metadata]]
==== Info

* Classname: `org.eclipse.jetty.proxy.BalancerServlet`
* Maven Artifact: org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-proxy
* Javadoc: {JDURL}/org/eclipse/jetty/proxy/BalancerServlet.html

[[balancer-servlet-usage]]
==== Usage

The Balancer servlet allows for simple, sticky round robin load balancing leveraging the `ProxyServlet` that is distributed with Jetty.

In addition to the parameters for `ProxyServlet`, the following are available for the balancer servlet:

stickySessions::
True if sessions should be sticky for subsequent requests
balancerMember.<name>.proxyTo::
One of more of these are required and will be the locations that are used to proxy traffic to.
