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Create a origin pool rule

POST
/domains/{domain}/rules/origin_pool/
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.nsin.ir/domains/example.com/rules/origin_pool/ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ "record_id": 1, "record_ids": [ 1 ], "enabled": true, "priority": 100, "host_pattern": "example", "host_match_type": "", "host_includes": [ "example" ], "host_excludes": [ "example" ], "action_mode": "enforce", "lb_type": "round_robin", "origins": [ { "address": "example", "port": 1, "scheme": "http", "weight": 1, "node_ids": [ 1 ], "country": "example" } ], "health_check": { "enabled": true, "path": "/", "interval_sec": 15, "timeout_sec": 5, "unhealthy_threshold": 3, "healthy_threshold": 2, "eject_sec": 30, "host": "example" }, "host_header": "example", "name": "example" }'

Load-balances matching traffic across several origins with optional health checking. Overrides the DNS record’s own destination for every path it matches.

Requires rules.edit.

domain
required
string

The domain name (for example example.com) — not a numeric id.

Example
example.com
Media type application/json
object
record_id

Deprecated single-record scope. Prefer record_ids.

integer
nullable
record_ids

Scope the rule to these proxied records. Omit or send an empty array for a zone-wide rule. Every id must belong to this domain.

Array<integer>
enabled
boolean
default: true
priority
integer
default: 100
host_pattern
string
host_match_type

How the host filter — host_pattern, host_includes and host_excludes — is matched. One strategy covers all three, exactly as one path_match_type covers both path lists.

The empty string means “no host filter”, and is the only valid value when the pattern and both lists are empty. Set a list without a match type and the API defaults it to wildcard.

A wildcard entry matches subdomains, not the label itself: *.example.com covers shop.example.com but not example.com — the same reading as the DNS wildcard. Add the bare name as its own entry to include it.

string
Allowed values: "" exact wildcard regex
host_includes

Hostnames the rule applies to; empty or omitted means every host. Sending an explicit empty array clears an existing list.

Array<string>
<= 200 items
host_excludes

Hostnames excluded from the rule; excludes beat includes.

Array<string>
<= 200 items
action_mode
  • enforce — the rule acts (block, redirect, challenge, …).
  • dry_run — the rule matches and is logged as “would have acted”, but the request reaches the origin unchanged. Use it to test a rule safely.

Not every rule type honours this; cache ignores it.

string
Allowed values: enforce dry_run
lb_type

How traffic is spread across origins. geo routes by edge node — see node_ids on each origin.

string
Allowed values: round_robin least_load geo
origins
Array<object>

One origin in a pool.

object
address
required

Origin IP address or hostname.

string
port
integer
scheme
string
Allowed values: http https
weight

Relative share of traffic under round_robin and least_load.

integer
node_ids

Under lb_type: geo, the edge nodes that use this origin.

Array<integer>
country

ISO country code of this origin.

string
health_check
object
enabled
boolean
path

Probe path.

string
default: /
interval_sec

Seconds between active probes.

integer
default: 15
timeout_sec

Probe timeout in seconds.

integer
default: 5
unhealthy_threshold

Consecutive probe failures before an origin is marked down.

integer
default: 3
healthy_threshold

Consecutive probe successes before an origin returns to service.

integer
default: 2
eject_sec

How long a passively ejected origin stays out, in seconds.

integer
default: 30
host

Host header override for the probe.

string
host_header

Host header (and SNI) sent to the pool’s origins.

string
name

Optional label for this pool, shown in the panel’s rule table and next to the records it overrides. Purely for identification — it does not affect routing. Omit or send an empty string for none.

string
<= 64 characters

Rule created.

Media type application/json
object
id
integer
domain_id
integer
record_id

Deprecated single-record scope. Prefer record_ids. Absent for zone-wide rules.

integer
record_ids

The proxied DNS records this rule applies to. Empty or absent means zone-wide — every proxied record of the domain.

Array<integer>
type
string
Allowed values: cache drop redirect rewrite waf captcha rate_limit bot_route origin_pool origin_route fingerprint error_page
enabled
boolean
priority

Evaluation order; lower runs first. Defaults to 100.

integer
host_pattern

Legacy single-hostname filter, kept for rules written before host_includes existed. It is evaluated as one more entry of host_includes; prefer the lists.

string
host_match_type

How the host filter — host_pattern, host_includes and host_excludes — is matched. One strategy covers all three, exactly as one path_match_type covers both path lists.

The empty string means “no host filter”, and is the only valid value when the pattern and both lists are empty. Set a list without a match type and the API defaults it to wildcard.

A wildcard entry matches subdomains, not the label itself: *.example.com covers shop.example.com but not example.com — the same reading as the DNS wildcard. Add the bare name as its own entry to include it.

string
Allowed values: "" exact wildcard regex
host_includes

Hostnames the rule applies to. Empty or absent means every host the scoped record(s) serve — which on a wildcard-proxied zone (*.example.com) is every subdomain.

Array<string>
host_excludes

Hostnames carved back out of host_includes. An exclude always wins over an include, so “everything except staging” is an empty include list plus one exclude.

Array<string>
action_mode
  • enforce — the rule acts (block, redirect, challenge, …).
  • dry_run — the rule matches and is logged as “would have acted”, but the request reaches the origin unchanged. Use it to test a rule safely.

Not every rule type honours this; cache ignores it.

string
Allowed values: enforce dry_run
created_at
string format: date-time
updated_at
string format: date-time
lb_type

How traffic is spread across origins. geo routes by edge node — see node_ids on each origin.

string
Allowed values: round_robin least_load geo
origins
Array<object>

One origin in a pool.

object
address
required

Origin IP address or hostname.

string
port
integer
scheme
string
Allowed values: http https
weight

Relative share of traffic under round_robin and least_load.

integer
node_ids

Under lb_type: geo, the edge nodes that use this origin.

Array<integer>
country

ISO country code of this origin.

string
health_check
object
enabled
boolean
path

Probe path.

string
default: /
interval_sec

Seconds between active probes.

integer
default: 15
timeout_sec

Probe timeout in seconds.

integer
default: 5
unhealthy_threshold

Consecutive probe failures before an origin is marked down.

integer
default: 3
healthy_threshold

Consecutive probe successes before an origin returns to service.

integer
default: 2
eject_sec

How long a passively ejected origin stays out, in seconds.

integer
default: 30
host

Host header override for the probe.

string
host_header

Host header (and SNI) sent to the pool’s origins.

string
name

Optional label for this pool, shown in the panel’s rule table and next to the records it overrides. Purely for identification — it does not affect routing. Omit or send an empty string for none.

string
<= 64 characters
Example
{
"type": "cache",
"host_match_type": "",
"action_mode": "enforce",
"lb_type": "round_robin",
"origins": [
{
"scheme": "http"
}
],
"health_check": {
"path": "/",
"interval_sec": 15,
"timeout_sec": 5,
"unhealthy_threshold": 3,
"healthy_threshold": 2,
"eject_sec": 30
}
}

Malformed body, an invalid field value, or record_ids containing a record that does not belong to this domain.

Media type application/json

The single error shape used by every endpoint.

object
error
required

Human-readable description of what went wrong.

string
Examples
Example foreignRecords
{
"error": "record_ids do not belong to this domain"
}

Missing, malformed, revoked or expired API key — or the owning account is inactive.

Media type application/json

The single error shape used by every endpoint.

object
error
required

Human-readable description of what went wrong.

string
Examples
Example invalidKey
{
"error": "invalid API key"
}

The key is read-only, or the domain’s plan does not include this rule type or allows fewer rules of it than you already have.

Media type application/json

The single error shape used by every endpoint.

object
error
required

Human-readable description of what went wrong.

string
Example
{
"error": "read-only API key"
}

No such domain, or your role on it does not permit this operation. The rules endpoints deliberately answer 404 rather than 403 for an insufficient role, so they never confirm that a domain exists to someone who cannot use it.

Media type application/json

The single error shape used by every endpoint.

object
error
required

Human-readable description of what went wrong.

string
Examples
Example notFound
{
"error": "not found"
}

The key exceeded its request budget (300 requests per minute by default).

Media type application/json

The single error shape used by every endpoint.

object
error
required

Human-readable description of what went wrong.

string
Examples
Example limited
{
"error": "rate limit exceeded"
}