Introducing Spectrum with Load Balancing
Oct 25, 2018Rustam Lalkaka, Sergi Isasi

Summary
This post announces the full integration of Cloudflare Spectrum with Load Balancing. It introduces the ability to configure TCP health checks for non-HTTP applications, allowing for intelligent failover and traffic distribution based on connection status. It also details how existing load balancing features like origin weights and steering modes (failover, dynamic, geo) are now applicable to TCP traffic proxied by Spectrum, enabling customers to build scalable and reliable TCP applications.
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