Pools

For more details about how endpoints and pools become unhealthy, refer to Endpoint and pool health.

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Properties

For an up-to-date list of pool properties, refer to Pool properties in our API documentation.

Create pools

For step-by-step guidance, refer to Create pools.

Per-endpoint Host header override

When your application needs specialized routing (CNAME setup or custom hosts like Heroku), change the Host header used in health monitor requests. For more details, refer to Override HTTP Host headers.

API commands

The Cloudflare API supports the following commands for pools. Examples are given for user-level endpoint but apply to the account-level endpoint as well.