Note - This feature is only available in Axon Server Enterprise and compatible with version 4.2 onwards of Axon.
To optimise the connections between framework clients and Axon Server, its is possible to tag both clients and Axon Server with information which describes properties of those clients and nodes. Axon Server will then use these tags to make a connection to the client.
A typical tag could describe where the respective client and server node are running (e.g. a cloud provider's region) encouraging that the nearest, and therefore fastest, connections are made.
A match is made when the the label and the value of the tag matches. For example, a server tagged with "computeRegion": "europe" will match with a client tag of "computeRegion": "europe". Similarly if server is tagged with "computeRegion": "europe" and client is tagged with "computeRegion": "asia" then this is not considered a match.
If both client and server are tagged with multiple tags then the connection that is made will be based on the highest number of matches. If multiple nodes have a equal number of matching tags then the node with the lightest load is chosen.
To enable tagging you must configure both the client and server.
You can configure the tags that you would like for each node through properties using axoniq.axonserver.tags.computeRegion: europe. Additional tags can be specified by adding to the tags element (e.g. axoniq.axonserver.tags.networkSpeed: fast).
On the client side, you can add tags by using the property axon.tags.computeRegion: europe and, similar to server configuration, additional tags can be added.