# Does Kong API Load Balance?

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/does-kong-api-load-balance/1728>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/does-kong-api-load-balance/1728 "2018-08-21T18:06:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![ccessnun](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/ccessnun/32/503_2.png) [@ccessnun](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/ccessnun)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/does-kong-api-load-balance/1728/1 "2018-08-21T18:06:43Z")

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I was wondering if KONG API acted as a Load-Balancer? Or would I need to utilize a load-=balancer and several instances of KONG API?

Thank you!  
-Casey

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**Author:** ![jeremyjpj0916](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/jeremyjpj0916/32/1388_2.png) [@jeremyjpj0916](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jeremyjpj0916)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/does-kong-api-load-balance/1728/2 "2018-08-21T18:34:40Z")

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This cover what you wanted to know about Kong load balancing capabilities? [https://docs.konghq.com/0.14.x/loadbalancing/](https://docs.konghq.com/0.14.x/loadbalancing/)

We too are thinking to drop F5 GTM + LTM’s in front of micro services in multi datacenter and let Kong handle some load balancing but have not tested it a whole lot yet. I think they are still working on https active health checks for their upstream resources still(the healthcheck repo has the pr needed for it to work but I think they had some other dao changes or something preventing it to be used at this exact moment now, related: [https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/3675](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/3675), actually looks like the underlying PR made it to next branch so I suppose will make into Kong CE 15 maybe?)).