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title: Planning your load balancer · Cloudflare Learning Paths
description: Explore the configuration choices available for your Cloudflare load balancer.
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Explore the configuration choices available for your Cloudflare load balancer.

## Objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

* Describe the difference between load balancing at different layers of the network stack.
* Identify when a load balancer should utilize session affinity.
* Describe the different policies for endpoint steering and traffic steering.
* List the different options available to monitor server health.
