Understand the basics

This sections comprises a set of concepts and functionalities to help you understand the power of Cloudflare Load Balancing in planning your traffic management. Click on the links below to learn more:

• Load balancers
• Traffic steering
• Pools
• Weighted load balancing
• Proxy modes
• Session affinity
• Load Balancing rules
• Monitors
• Load Balancing logs
• Region Mapping API