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How to Delete a Vultr Load Balancer

Updated on 10 September, 2025

Learn how to permanently remove a Vultr Load Balancer from your account when its no longer needed.

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, CLI, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products and click Load Balancers.
  2. Click your target Load Balancer to open its management page.
  3. Click Destroy Load Balancer in the top-right corner of the management page.
  4. Click Delete 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>

  1. Open your Terraform configuration file for the existing Load Balancer.

  2. Remove the vultr_load_balancer resource block, or destroy it by target.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_load_balancer" "lb" {
    region              = "ewr"
    label               = "vultr-load-balancer"
    balancing_algorithm = "roundrobin"

    forwarding_rules {
        frontend_protocol = "http"
        frontend_port     = 82
        backend_protocol  = "http"
        backend_port      = 81
    }

    health_check {
        path                = "/test"
        port                = 8080
        protocol            = "http"
        response_timeout    = 1
        unhealthy_threshold = 2 
        check_interval      = 3
        healthy_threshold   = 4
    }
}

# To delete, either remove this block from configuration
# or run: terraform destroy -target vultr_load_balancer.lb

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

    Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.

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