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Expand Up @@ -10,3 +10,7 @@ When a client visits your application, Cloudflare directs their request to a hea
Cloudflare performs layer 7 load balancing when traffic to your hostname is **proxied** through Cloudflare. In the **Load Balancing** dashboard, these load balancers are marked with an orange cloud.

![DNS-only load balancers are marked with an orange cloud](~/assets/images/load-balancing/proxied-load-balancer.png)

:::warning
Note that if a [DNS-only (grey cloud)](/dns/proxy-status/) CNAME record points to a proxied load balancer, the IP returned for it would be endpoint IP and a HTTP request sent to it would not be proxied.
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