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Cloudflare Waiting Room

A virtual waiting room to manage peak traffic.
Business and above

Cloudflare Waiting Room allows you to route excess users of your website to a customized waiting room, helping preserve customer experience and protect origin servers from being overwhelmed with requests.


​​ Features

​​ Scheduled Event

Customize the behavior of a waiting room for a specific period of time.

​​ Waiting Room Rules

Create rules to indicate specific traffic or areas of your site or application that you do not want a waiting room to apply to.

​​ Waiting Room Analytics

Get insights into the traffic going through your waiting room.

​​ Additional hostname and path coverage

Apply a single waiting room to multiple hostnames and paths within the same zone.



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