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# Cloudflare Load Balancing

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Maximize application performance and availability

Add-on feature

Cloudflare Load Balancing distributes traffic across your [endpoints](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/glossary/?term=endpoint), which reduces endpoint strain and latency and improves the experience for end users.

Note

Enterprise customers can preview this product as a [non-contract service](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/billing/understand/preview-services/), which provides full access, free of metered usage fees, limits, and certain other restrictions.

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## Features

[Load balancing and failover](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/load-balancers/)

Distribute traffic evenly across your healthy endpoints, automatically failing over when an endpoint is unhealthy or unresponsive.

Use Load balancing and failover

[Active monitoring](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/monitors/)

Monitor your endpoints at configurable intervals and across multiple data centers to look for specific status codes, response text, and timeouts.

Use Active monitoring

[Intelligent routing](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/traffic-steering/)

Choose whether to distribute requests based on endpoint latency, a visitor's geographic region, or even a visitor's GPS coordinates.

Use Intelligent routing

[Custom rules](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/additional-options/load-balancing-rules/)

Customize the behavior of your load balancer based on the characteristics of individual requests.

Use Custom rules

[Analytics](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/reference/load-balancing-analytics/)

Review comprehensive analytics to evaluate traffic flow, assess endpoint health status, and review changes in pools and pool health over time.

Use Analytics

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## Related products

[Standalone Health Checks](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/health-checks/)

Actively monitor whether your origin server is online by sending specific requests at regular intervals.

[DNS](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/dns/)

Get enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service with the fastest response time, unparalleled redundancy, and advanced security with built-in DDoS mitigation and DNSSEC.

[Waiting Room](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/waiting-room/)

Route excess users to a custom-branded waiting room, helping preserve customer experience and protect origin servers from being overwhelmed with requests.

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## More resources

### [Plans](https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#overview)

Compare available Cloudflare plans.

### [Pricing](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/traffic/load-balancing/)

Explore pricing options for Load Balancing in the dashboard.

### [Reference Architecture](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/load-balancing/)

Learn more about the structure of Cloudflare Load Balancers and their various configurations.

### [Learning Paths](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/)

Module-based guidance on Cloudflare product workflows.

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