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Smart Shield

This functionality is now offered as part of Cloudflare's origin server safeguard, Smart Shield. [Learn more](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/).

This guide will get you started with creating and managing configured Health Checks.

## Create a Health Check

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the **Health Checks** page.

   [Go to **Health Checks**](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/traffic/health-checks)

2. Select **Create** and fill out the form, paying special attention to:

   * The values for **Interval** and **Check regions**, because decreasing the **Interval** and increasing **Check regions** may increase the load on your origin server.
   * **Retries**, which specify the number of retries to attempt in case of a timeout before marking the origin as unhealthy.
   * **Response body**, which specifies a substring that must be present in the first 10 KB of the response body for the check to succeed.

3. Select **Save and Deploy**.

## Manage Health Checks

1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com) and select your account and domain.
2. Go to **Traffic** > **Health Checks**.
3. Navigate to your health check and select **Edit**.
4. Edit your Health Check.
5. Select **Save**.

Note

You can also enable, disable, or delete configured Health Checks.

Note

Authenticated origin pull is not supported by Standalone Health Checks.
