# Configure Load Balancing when Using Cloud Guard WAF as a Reverse Proxy

CloudGuard WAF can now act as a **reverse proxy with load balancing**, allowing you to distribute incoming traffic across multiple upstream servers. This improves availability, scalability, and fault tolerance of your applications.

### Prerequisites

* You already have a CloudGuard WAF asset configured in **reverse proxy mode**.
* Your backend applications are reachable from the WAF.

### **Instructions:**

#### Step 1 – Open Your Asset

1. Go to the **Assets** page in the CloudGuard WAF portal.
2. Select the asset you want to configure.
3. Enable load balancing

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#### Step 2 – Configure Upstreams

1. Click on the "Load balancer upstream setting.
2. Choose the Load Balancing Algoritm
   * Currently only "Round Robin" is supported
3. Provide the URL for each backend server
   * Make sure to include protocol and port if needed

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#### Step 3  - Configure **Health Check** settings

provide the following details:

* Path (Defaults to /)
* Port (Defaults to 80)
* Timeout setting (Defaults to 5s)
* Interval setting (Defaults to 5s)
* Healthy threshold (Defaults to 5)
* Unhealthy threshold (Defaults to 5)
* Expected status code  (Defaults to 200)

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#### Step 4 - Save and Enforce