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Health Checks
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Get started with Health Checks

This guide will get you started with creating and managing configured Health Checks.

​​ Create a Health Check

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to Traffic > Health Checks.
  3. Select Create and fill out the form, paying special attention to:
    • The values for Interval and Check regions, because decreasing the Interval and increasing Check regions may increase the load on your origin server.
    • Retries, which specify the number of retries to attempt in case of a timeout before marking the origin as unhealthy.
  4. Select Save and Deploy.

​​ Manage Health Checks

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to Traffic > Health Checks.
  3. Navigate to your health check and select Edit.
  4. Edit your Health Check.
  5. Select Save.