How to Delete Vultr Firewall Groups and Rules

1 min readUpdated 23 October 2026

Remove a Vultr Firewall group, which deletes its rules and detaches its instances, or a single rule for one port.

Deleting a firewall group removes all existing rules and detaches all active instances from the group while deleting firewall rules removes traffic filtering on a specific port. Deleted firewall groups or rules cannot be recovered unless recreated using the Vultr Firewall.

Follow this guide to delete Vultr Firewall groups and rules using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Products, expand the Network drop-down and select Firewall from the list of options.
Select your target firewall group to manage it.
Click Delete Firewall Rule within the action section of your target firewall rule to delete it.
Click Delete Group in the top right corner to delete the firewall group and all existing rules.
Click Delete Firewall Group in the confirmation prompt to remove the firewall grou and unlink active instances.

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