Determining the health of other nodes in a same cluster based on physical link information

A method comprising:

• monitoring network traffic, during a first period of time, on a physical link connected to a target node;
• determining that the network traffic, during the first period of time, meets a traffic threshold;
• responsive at least to determining that the network traffic, during the first period of time, meets the traffic threshold:
• refraining from initiating a node eviction process to remove the target node from a node cluster;
• monitoring network traffic, during a second period of time, on the physical link connected to the target node;
• determining that the network traffic, during the second period of time, does not meet the traffic threshold;
• and
• responsive at least to determining that the network traffic, during the second period of time, does not meet the traffic threshold:
• initiating a node eviction process to remove the target node from the node cluster,
• wherein the method is performed by at least one device including a hardware processor.

A system comprising:

• at least one hardware device including a processor;
• and
• the system configured to perform operations comprising:
• monitoring network traffic, during a first period of time, on a physical link connected to a target node;
• determining that the network traffic, during the first period of time, meets a traffic threshold;
• responsive at least to determining that the network traffic, during the first period of time, meets the traffic threshold:
• refraining from initiating a node eviction process to remove the target node from a node cluster;
• monitoring network traffic, during a second period of time, on the physical link connected to the target node;
• determining that the network traffic, during the second period of time, does not meet the traffic threshold;
• and
• responsive at least to determining that the network traffic, during the second period of time, does not meet the traffic threshold:
• initiating a node eviction process to remove the target node from the node cluster.