Quickstart

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Get up and running quickly with Load Balancing. For more in-depth explanations, refer to the Learning path.

Before you begin

Make sure you:

• Have access to multiple endpoints (origin servers, private or public IP addresses, virtual IP addresses (VIPs), etc), either physical or cloud-based.
• Have access to Load Balancing, available as an add-on for any type of account.
• Have test and production hostnames that are covered by SSL/TLS certificates.

Create a monitor

Set up the monitor

Prepare your servers

Set up the monitor

Prepare your servers

Create pools

Confirm pool health

Unexpected health status

Create a load balancer on a test subdomain

Optional - Review load balancing analytics

As you send sample requests to your test domain, review the load balancing analytics page to make sure your load balancer is distributing requests like you were expecting.

Route production traffic

Optional - Next steps

Your load balancer should be receiving production traffic (and you can confirm this by reviewing the analytics).

Though your product is officially set up, you may want to consider the following suggestions.

Usage-based notifications

Additional configuration options

You may want to further customize how your load balancer routes traffic or integrate your load balancer with other Cloudflare products: