Load Balancer Status

DigitalOcean Load Balancers are a fully managed, highly available network load balancing service. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets, which prevents the health of a backend service from depending on the health of a single server.


On DigitalOcean, load balancers for Droplets can have the following statuses:

  • Healthy: All nodes in this load balancer have passed their latest health check.
  • Issue: Only some nodes in this load balancer have passed their latest health check.
  • Down: No nodes in this load balancer have passed their latest health check.
  • No Droplets: This load balancer does not have any associated Droplets. See how to add Droplets.

You can view a load balancer’s status in the control panel, in the Networking page and Load Balancers tab.

The load balancer index page