Updated on 2024-04-09 GMT+08:00

API Overview

A combination of these types of APIs allows you to use all functions provided by ELB. Table 1 describes the APIs provided by ELB.

Table 1 ELB APIs

Type

Resource

Description

Dedicated load balancer APIs

Load balancer

Creates, updates, deletes a load balancer, shows the details of a load balancer, lists load balancers, and queries the status tree for a load balancer.

Certificate

Creates, modifies, and deletes a certificate, and lists certificates.

Security policy

Adds, modifies, and deletes a security policy, shows the details of a security policy, and lists security policies.

IP address group

Configures, modifies, and disables an IP address group, shows the details of an IP address group, and lists IP address groups.

Listener

Adds, modifies, and deletes a listener, shows the details of a listener, and lists listeners.

Backend server group

Adds, modifies, and deletes a backend server group, shows the details of a backend server group, and lists backend server groups.

Backend server

Adds, modifies, and deletes a backend server, shows the details of a backend server, and lists backend servers.

Health check

Configures, modifies, and disables a health check, shows the details of a health check, and lists health checks.

Forwarding policy

Adds, updates, and deletes a forwarding policy, shows the details of a forwarding policy, lists forwarding policies, and updates forwarding policy priorities.

Forwarding rule

Adds, modifies, and deletes a forwarding rule, shows the details of a forwarding rule, and lists forwarding rules.

Classic load balancer APIs

Load balancer

Creates, modifies, and deletes a load balancer, delete a public network load balancer, shows the details of a load balancer, and lists load balancers.

Listener

Adds, modifies, and deletes a listener, shows the details of a listener, and lists listeners.

Health check

Configures, modifies, and disables a health check, and shows the details of a health check.

Backend server

Adds, queries, and removes backend ECSs.

Quota

Queries the load balancer and listener quotas.

Certificate

Creates, modifies, and deletes a certificate, shows details of a certificate, and lists certificates.

Job status

Queries the job status.

Monitoring metrics

Queries monitoring metrics of load balancers.

Enhanced load balancer APIs

Load balancer

Creates, updates, deletes a load balancer, shows the details of a load balancer, lists load balancers, and queries the status tree for a load balancer.

Listener

Adds, updates, and deletes a listener, shows the details of a listener, and lists listeners.

Backend server group

Adds, updates, and deletes a backend server group, shows the details of a backend server group, and lists backend server groups.

Backend server

Adds, updates, and removes a backend server, shows the details of a backend server, and lists backend servers.

Health check

Configures, updates, and disables a health check, and shows the details of a health check.

Forwarding policy

Adds, updates, and deletes a forwarding policy, shows the details of a forwarding policy, and lists forwarding policies.

Forwarding rule

Adds, updates, and deletes a forwarding rule, shows the details of a forwarding rule, and lists forwarding rules.

Whitelist

Creates, updates, and deletes a certificate, and lists whitelist.

SSL certificate

Creates, updates, and deletes a certificate, and lists certificates.

Tag

Adds a tag to and deletes a tag from a load balancer, batch adds and deletes load balancer tags, lists all tags of a load balancer, lists tags of all load balancers, queries load balancers by tag, adds and deletes a tag to a listener, batch adds and deletes tags to a listener, lists all tags of a listener, lists tags of all listeners, and queries listeners by tag.