[role="xpack"]
[testenv="platinum"]
[[ml-stop-datafeed]]
=== Stop {dfeeds} API

[subs="attributes"]
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<titleabbrev>Stop {dfeeds}</titleabbrev>
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Stops one or more {dfeeds}.

[[ml-stop-datafeed-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`POST _ml/datafeeds/<feed_id>/_stop` +

`POST _ml/datafeeds/<feed_id>,<feed_id>/_stop` +

`POST _ml/datafeeds/_all/_stop`

[[ml-stop-datafeed-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have `manage_ml` or
`manage` cluster privileges to use this API. See
<<security-privileges>>.

[[ml-stop-datafeed-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

A {dfeed} that is stopped ceases to retrieve data from {es}.
A {dfeed} can be started and stopped multiple times throughout its lifecycle.

You can stop multiple {dfeeds} in a single API request by using a
comma-separated list of {dfeeds} or a wildcard expression. You can close all
{dfeeds} by using `_all` or by specifying `*` as the `<feed_id>`.

[[ml-stop-datafeed-path-parms]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<feed_id>`::
  (Required, string) Identifier for the {dfeed}. It can be a {dfeed} identifier
  or a wildcard expression.

[[ml-stop-datafeed-query-parms]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

`allow_no_datafeeds`::
  (Optional, boolean) Specifies what to do when the request:
+
--
* Contains wildcard expressions and there are no {datafeeds} that match.
* Contains the `_all` string or no identifiers and there are no matches.
* Contains wildcard expressions and there are only partial matches. 

The default value is `true`, which returns an empty `datafeeds` array when
there are no matches and the subset of results when there are partial matches.
If this parameter is `false`, the request returns a `404` status code when there
are no matches or only partial matches.
--

[[ml-stop-datafeed-request-body]]
==== {api-request-body-title}

`force`::
  (Optional, boolean) If true, the {dfeed} is stopped forcefully.

`timeout`::
  (Optional, time) Controls the amount of time to wait until a {dfeed} stops.
  The default value is 20 seconds.

[[ml-stop-datafeed-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`404` (Missing resources)::
  If `allow_no_datafeeds` is `false`, this code indicates that there are no
  resources that match the request or only partial matches for the request.

[[ml-stop-datafeed-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example stops the `datafeed-total-requests` {dfeed}:

[source,console]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ml/datafeeds/datafeed-total-requests/_stop
{
  "timeout": "30s"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[skip:setup:server_metrics_startdf]

When the {dfeed} stops, you receive the following results:

[source,console-result]
----
{
  "stopped": true
}
----