---
title: "addTarget"
slug: "networking-vloadbalancer-targetgroup-addtarget"
updated: 2026-09-17T10:12:30Z
published: 2026-09-17T10:12:30Z
canonical: "api.ncloud-docs.com/networking-vloadbalancer-targetgroup-addtarget"
---

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# addTarget

Available in VPC

Add a target that will be applied to a target group. The list of newly specified target numbers is added to the list of previously applied targets, and you can't add targets that are already bound.

## Request

The following describes the request format for the endpoint. The request format is as follows:

| Method | URI |
| --- | --- |
| GET | /vloadbalancer/v2/addTarget |

### Request headers

For information about the headers common to all Load Balancer APIs, see [Load Balancer request headers](/docs/en/networking-vloadbalancer#%EC%9A%94%EC%B2%AD%ED%97%A4%EB%8D%94).

### Request query parameters

You can use the following query parameters with your request:

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `regionCode` | String | Optional | Region code for the target group you want to add a target to - First Region of the getRegionList search result (default) - See [getRegionList](/docs/en/compute-vserver-server-common-getregionlist) |
| `targetGroupNo` | String | Required | Target group number - See [getTargetGroupList](/docs/en/networking-vloadbalancer-targetgroup-gettargetgrouplist) |
| `targetNoList.N` | List[String] | Required | Target number list - `targetNo` can be obtained through `targetTypeCode` - <E.g.> targetNoList.1=1234&targetNoList.2=2345 |
| `responseFormatType` | String | Optional | Response result format - `xml` (default) \| `json` |

### Request example

The following is a sample request.

```
curl --location 'https://ncloud.apigw.ntruss.com/vloadbalancer/v2/addTarget?regionCode=KR&targetGroupNo=*******&targetNoList.1=********' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-timestamp: {Timestamp}' \
--header 'x-ncp-iam-access-key: {Access Key}' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-signature-v2: {API Gateway Signature}'
```

## Response

The following describes the response format.

### Response body

See [TargetList](/docs/en/common-vapidatatype-targetlist) for the response body.

### Response status codes

For information about the HTTP status codes common to all Load Balancer APIs, see [Load Balancer response status codes](/docs/en/networking-vloadbalancer#%EC%9D%91%EB%8B%B5%EC%83%81%ED%83%9C%EC%BD%94%EB%93%9C).

### Response example

The following is a sample response.

List of targets bound to the corresponding target group after executing the request

```
<addTargetResponse>
    <requestId>0e2ff33d-5a40-4a69-af68-b44b0384ba33</requestId>
    <returnCode>0</returnCode>
    <returnMessage>success</returnMessage>
    <totalRows>1</totalRows>
    <targetList>
        <target>
            <targetNo>********</targetNo>
            <targetName>YOUR_TARGET</targetName>
            <targetIp>***.***.*.*</targetIp>
            <healthCheckStatus>
                <code>UNUSED</code>
                <codeName>unused Target</codeName>
            </healthCheckStatus>
            <healthCheckResponse></healthCheckResponse>
        </target>
    </targetList>
</addTargetResponse>
```