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How to Delete a Vultr Load Balancer

Updated on November 27, 2024

Deleting a Vultr Load Balancer involves removing the load balancer from your Vultr account, which terminates its service and stops all associated traffic distribution. This action will cease the load balancing operations and clear any related configurations, effectively halting the management of incoming traffic across your servers.

Follow this guide to delete a Vultr Load Balancer on your Vultr account using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Products and click Load Balancer.

    Load Balancer option in products menu

  2. Click your target Load Balancer to open its management page.

    Selection of a target Load Balancer

  3. Click delete on top-right of the overview page.

    Delete button for the Load Balancer

  4. Click Destroy Load Balancer on the confirmation prompt to permanently delete the target Load Balancer.

    Load Balancer deletion confirmation prompt

  1. Send a GET request to the List Load Balancer endpoint and note the target Load Balancer's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/load-balancers" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a DELETE request to the Delete Load Balancer endpoint to delete the target Load Balancer.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/load-balancers/<loadbalancer-id>" \    
    -X DELETE \                                        
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List the available Load Balancers and note the target Load Balancer's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli load-balancer list

  2. Delete the target Load Balancer.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli load-balancer delete <loadbalancer-id>