Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
3. Click Server Restart on the top-right navigation menu to restart your server.
4. Click Restart Server in the confirmation prompt to apply changes.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note your target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
     -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

2. Send a POST request to the Reboot Instances endpoint to restart the instance.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/reboot" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --data '{
       "instance_ids" : [
         "instance_id"
       ]
     }'

Vultr CLI

1. List all available instances and note your target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance list
   

2. Restart the instance.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance restart <instance_id>