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How to Delete a Vultr Load Balancer

Updated on April 7, 2025

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 Balancers.
  2. Click your target Load Balancer to open its management page.
  3. Click the delete icon in the top-right corner of the management page.
  4. Check the Yes, destroy this Load Balancer box in the confirmation prompt, and click Destroy Load Balancer to permanently delete the target Load Balancer instance.

  1. Send a GET request to the List Load Balancers 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/{load-balancer-id}" \
    -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all available instances 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 <load-balancer-id>

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