Planning your load balancer

Explore the configuration choices available for your Cloudflare load balancer.

​​ Objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the difference between load balancing at different layers of the network stack.
• Identify when a load balancer should utilize session affinity.
• Describe the different policies for origin steering and traffic steering.
• List the different options available to monitor server health.