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description: Regional health lets each Cloudflare region make an independent pool health decision, with global health as a fallback.
title: Load Balancing now supports regional health
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August 28, 2026

## Load Balancing now supports regional health

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Cloudflare Load Balancing now supports regional health. Each Cloudflare region can make an independent health decision for a pool. When pool reachability differs by region, traffic can avoid an unreachable pool without removing it from service elsewhere.

Configure regional health with the `health_sources` field on a pool. Set it to `["regional", "global"]` to prefer regional health and use global health when no regional decision is available. Pools without `health_sources` retain their existing health behavior.

Regional health is useful for multi-region deployments and failures that affect specific network paths.

For more information, refer to [Regional health](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/regional-health/).

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