Balancer guides
Use these guides to configure Balancer and verify the resulting behavior. Each guide includes API requests, expected results and troubleshooting steps.
Note: Balancer is in beta. Endpoints, fields and behavior may change before general availability, and the feature must be enabled on your account before use. Contact your NetActuate account manager to request access.
Choose a task
- Configure origins and health checks
- Route traffic with groups and routes
- Add a TLS certificate
- Require client certificates
- Set up caching and purge content
- Protect a site with a WAF firewall and rulesets
- Allow trusted traffic with WAF allow policies
- Rate limit requests
- Block and allow traffic by country, IP and list
- Resize and transform images
- Host DNS zones and records
- Serve custom error pages
- Export and read logs
- Set up L4 load balancing
- Manage users, API keys and access control
- Understand DDoS protection
Related API operations
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Before you start
Get the API host from the Balancer portal. Examples use https://<your-api-host> and the BALANCER_API_KEY environment variable. Use a key with permission for the selected account and resource. Configuration acceptance does not establish that every serving location has applied a change.
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Need Help?
Contact your account manager or use the Balancer portal.