Load Balancing Monitor Groups: Multi-Service Health Checks for Resilient Applications
Oct 17, 2025Noah Crouch, Cole Bennett

Summary
Introduces Monitor Groups for Cloudflare Load Balancing, allowing the bundling of multiple health monitors (e.g., HTTP, TCP, Database) into a single logical entity. This enables sophisticated, multi-service health assessments and aggregated health scores for more intelligent failover decisions. Key features include 'must_be_healthy' for critical monitors, 'monitoring_only' for observational probes, and quorum-based health determination (more than 50% of checking data centers reporting UP). The latency metric for Dynamic Steering is updated to be the average RTT of all active, non-monitoring-only members in the Monitor Group.
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