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Cloudflare Load Balancing
Maximize application performance and availability
Paid add-on
Cloudflare Load Balancing distributes traffic across your endpoints, which reduces endpoint strain and latency and improves the experience for end users.
Features
Load balancing and failover
Distribute traffic evenly across your healthy endpoints, automatically failing over when an endpoint is unhealthy or unresponsive.
Active monitoring
Monitor your endpoints at configurable intervals and across multiple data centers to look for specific status codes, response text, and timeouts.
Intelligent routing
Choose whether to distribute requests based on endpoint latency, a visitor’s geographic region, or even a visitor’s GPS coordinates.
Custom rules
Customize the behavior of your load balancer based on the characteristics of individual requests.
Analytics
Review comprehensive analytics to evaluate traffic flow, assess endpoint health status, and review changes in pools and pool health over time.
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Waiting Room
Route excess users to a custom-branded waiting room, helping preserve customer experience and protect origin servers from being overwhelmed with requests.
More resources
Explore pricing options for Load Balancing in the dashboard.
Learn more about the structure of Cloudflare Load Balancers and their various configurations.
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