Cloudflare Load Balancing
Seamless traffic. No matter what the Internet throws at you
Increase reliability with fast failover
Failover instantly with zero downtime. Requests proxied through Cloudflare get instantly re-routed — without waiting for TTLs to expire.
Actively monitor the health of your origins
Actively monitor the health of your pools and origins to detect outages and eliminate potential downtime.
Manage traffic from a unified control plane
Manage global and local traffic in a complex environment from the Cloudflare Dashboard. Intelligently steer your traffic based on geography, latency, and availability.
Reduce your total cost of ownership
Reduce capital expenditure by replacing on-premise load balancing hardware with an enterprise-grade, cloud-based load balancing solution.
Connect to the Cloudflare Global Network
Cloudflare Load Balancing runs at each of our data centers across 335 cities worldwide and is powered by our DDoS-resilient DNS — the fastest Authoritative DNS in the world. We support load balancing for both proxied and non- proxied traffic.
Key Features
Global and local load balancing
Active origin monitoring
Fastest managed DNS
Support for HTTPS and TCP traffic
Detailed traffic analytics
Fast failover with zero downtime
Dynamic steering
Real-Time latency maps
DDoS protection included
Geo-based steering
Configurable origin weights
Session affinity
Health status notifications via email and REST API
Integration with Argo Smart Routing and Spectrum
No DNS propagation delays (proxied traffic)
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