Stopping and starting an L7 load balancer

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Updated at May 5, 2025

Stopping a load balancer
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Stopping a load balancer

The Stop command stops an L7 load balancer. Once stopped, the load balancer changes its status to STOPPED. As long as the load balancer is stopped, you are not charged for its use.

You can start the load balancer at any time to continue your work. All your data and changes will remain intact.

To stop an L7 load balancer:

Management console

CLI

API

In the management console, select the folder with your load balancer.
Select Application Load Balancer.
Click next to the load balancer you need, then select Stop.

To stop multiple load balancers at once, select them in the list, click Stop at the bottom of the screen, and then click Stop in the window that opens.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI load balancer stop command:
```
yc application-load-balancer load-balancer stop --help
```

Get a list of all load balancers in the default folder:

yc application-load-balancer load-balancer list --format yaml

Result:

- id: ds79cfnvmti3********
  name: test-load-balancer
  folder_id: b1gv87ssvu49********
  status: ACTIVE
  network_id: enp45glgitd6********
  listeners:
  - name: test-listener
    endpoints:
    - addresses:
      - external_ipv4_address:
          address: 51.250.35.12
      ports:
      - "80"
    http:
      handler:
        http_router_id: ds7bharmjfs3********
  allocation_policy:
    locations:
    - zone_id: ru-central1-a
      subnet_id: e9bn57jvjnbu********
  log_group_id: ckgph76s449v********
  created_at: "2022-02-11T09:00:31.911019416Z"
- id: ds7o71924t0h********
  name: balancer2
  folder_id: b1gv87ssvu49********
  status: ACTIVE
  network_id: enp45glgitd********
  allocation_policy:
    locations:
    - zone_id: ru-central1-a
      subnet_id: e9bn57jvjnbu********
  log_group_id: ckgjhe81a23v********
  created_at: "2022-02-11T09:01:46.724279145Z"

To stop the load balancer, run the following command with its ID or name specified:
```
yc application-load-balancer load-balancer stop <load_balancer_name>
```
For more information about the application-load-balancer load-balancer stop command, see this CLI reference.

Use the stop REST API method for the LoadBalancer resource or the LoadBalancerService/Stop gRPC API call.

Start a load balancer

The Start command starts an L7 load balancer. Once started, the load balancer changes its status to ACTIVE. From this point on, you will be charged for its use.

To start a load balancer:

Management console

CLI

API

In the management console, select the folder with your load balancer.
Select Application Load Balancer.
Click next to the load balancer you need, then select Start.

To start multiple load balancers at once, select them in the list, click Start at the bottom of the screen, and then click Start in the window that opens.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

See the description of the CLI load balancer start command:
```
yc application-load-balancer load-balancer start --help
```

Get a list of all load balancers in the default folder:

yc application-load-balancer load-balancer list --format yaml

Result:

- id: ds79cfnvmti3********
  name: test-load-balancer
  folder_id: b1gv87ssvu49********
  status: ACTIVE
  network_id: enp45glgitd6********
  listeners:
  - name: test-listener
    endpoints:
    - addresses:
      - external_ipv4_address:
          address: 51.250.35.12
      ports:
      - "80"
    http:
      handler:
        http_router_id: ds7bharmjfs3********
  allocation_policy:
    locations:
    - zone_id: ru-central1-a
      subnet_id: e9bn57jvjnbu********
  log_group_id: ckgph76s449v********
  created_at: "2022-02-11T09:00:31.911019416Z"
- id: ds7o71924t0h********
  name: balancer2
  folder_id: b1gv87ssvu49********
  status: STOPPED
  network_id: enp45glgitd********
  allocation_policy:
    locations:
    - zone_id: ru-central1-a
      subnet_id: e9bn57jvjnbu********
  log_group_id: ckgjhe81a23v********
  created_at: "2022-02-11T09:01:46.724279145Z"

To start a load balancer, run the following command with its ID or name specified:
```
yc application-load-balancer load-balancer start <load_balancer_name>
```
For more information about the application-load-balancer load-balancer start command, see this CLI reference.

Use the start REST API method for the LoadBalancer resource or the LoadBalancerService/Start gRPC API call.

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