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Update a Load Balancer

An MCP tool from the Hetzner Cloud API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Update a Load Balancer Updates a Load Balancer. You can update a Load Balancer’s name and a Load Balancer’s labels. Note: if the Load Balancer object changes during the request, the response will be a “conflict” error. [PUT /load_balancers/{id}]

Name on the gateway: hetzner_api__update_load_balancer · may change things.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
id requiredintegerID of the Load Balancer.
namestringNew Load Balancer name.
labelsobjectUser-defined labels (key/value pairs) for the Resource. Note that the set of…

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "hetzner_api__update_load_balancer",
  "arguments": {
    "id": 0
  }
}

Or connect the Hetzner Cloud API server directly, which lists 178 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-hetzner-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/hetzner-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

Use the update a load balancer tool with id set to ….

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