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title: Get started · Cloudflare Health Checks docs
description: This guide will get you started with creating and managing configured Health Checks.
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This guide will get you started with creating and managing configured Health Checks.

## Create a Health Check

1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/) and select your account and domain.

2. Go to **Traffic** > **Health Checks**.

3. 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.

4. 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.
