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Stopping and starting an L7 load balancer

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Updated at July 20, 2026
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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:

  1. In the management console, select the folder the load balancer is in.

  2. Navigate to Application Load Balancer.

  3. Click next to the load balancer and select Stop.

    To apply this action to multiple load balancers, select the appropriate load balancers 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 used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

  1. See the description of the CLI load balancer stop command:

    yc application-load-balancer load-balancer stop --help

  2. 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"

  3. 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 the 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 start paying for using the load balancer.

To start a load balancer:

  1. In the management console, select the folder the load balancer is in.

  2. Navigate to Application Load Balancer.

  3. Click next to the load balancer and select Start.

    To apply this action to multiple load balancers, select the appropriate load balancers 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.

The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

  1. See the description of the CLI load balancer start command:

    yc application-load-balancer load-balancer start --help

  2. 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"

  3. 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 the CLI reference.

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

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