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11 changes: 6 additions & 5 deletions content/load-balancing/understand-basics/health-details.md
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## Components

Dynamic load balancing happens through a combination of:

- [**Origin pools**](/load-balancing/understand-basics/pools/): Contain one or more origin servers.
- [**Monitors**](/load-balancing/understand-basics/monitors/): Are attached to individual origin servers and issue health checks at regular intervals.
- **Health checks**: Are issued by a monitor at regular interval and — depending on the monitor settings — return a **pass** or **fail** value to make sure an origin is still able to receive traffic.
Dynamic load balancing happens through a combination of [origin pools](/load-balancing/understand-basics/pools/)[^1], [monitors](/load-balancing/understand-basics/monitors/)[^2], and health checks[^3].

![Dynamic load balancing involves pools, origins, monitors, and health checks](/load-balancing/static/images/load-balancer-components.png)

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- If Cloudflare proxies your hostname, you will see a 530 HTTP/1016 Origin DNS failure.
- If Cloudflare does not proxy your hostname, you will see the SOA record.


[^1]: Groups that contain one or more origin servers.
[^2]: Are attached to individual origin servers and issue health checks at regular intervals.
[^3]: Which are issued by a monitor at regular interval and — depending on the monitor settings — return a **pass** or **fail** value to make sure an origin is still able to receive traffic.
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