Workload processing is facilitated in a data processing environment including a sender system, a load balancer and a plurality of target resources. The sender system sends workloads to the load balancer, and the load balancer distributes the workloads to the plurality of target resources for processing. Facilitating workload processing includes receiving, by the load balancer, sender status-related information which is indicative of a workload capacity issue from the sender system's view related, at least in part, to the sending of the workloads to the load balancer. The load balancer distributes one or more workloads of the sender system to one or more target resources of the plurality of target resources in a manner based, at least in part, upon the received sender status-related information.