HAProxy has announced the open source HAProxy Data Plane application programing interface (API) version 2.3. The latest version expands its service discovery mechanisms and introduces native support for discovering AWS EC2 instances and auto-scaling groups.

The importance of the cloud can’t be denied or even understated, and gaining service discovery in EC2 for HAProxy will be welcomed news for many organizations, the company said.

It also adds a new configuration file that supports HCL and YAML, an Inotify configuration watcher, and Syslog support.

HAProxy Data Plane API version 2.3 also monitors the HAProxy configuration using Inotify, which means that you can make manual changes to your HAProxy configuration and use the Data Plane API simultaneously without worrying that the methods will conflict.

It also adds support for sending its request logs over Syslog and allows you to customize the format using Apache Log Format directives.

HAProxy Data Plane API version 2.3 is now available.