Load Balancing actions

Overview

Actions tell Cloudflare how to handle HTTP requests that have matched a Load Balancing expression.

Note that a single Load Balancing rule can include more than one action.

This table lists the actions available for Load Balancing rules. For a walkthrough, see Creating Load Balancing rules.

Action	Description
Fixed response	Respond to the request with an HTTP status code and an optional message.
Pool selection	Select the pool to receive the request. You can customize the logic to use for pool selection, including traffic steering method, available pools, fallback pool, and region.
Redirect	Redirect the request to another URL.
Return	Stop processing Load Balancing rules and apply the current load balancing logic to the request.
Session affinity	Set the session affinity for the request. You can customize cookie behavior, session time-to-live (TTL), and origin drain duration TTL.