[[cancel-connector-sync-job-api]]
=== Cancel connector sync job API
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<titleabbrev>Cancel connector sync job</titleabbrev>
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Cancels a connector sync job.

To get started with Connector APIs, check out <<es-connectors-tutorial-api, our tutorial>>.


[[cancel-connector-sync-job-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}
`PUT _connector/_sync_job/<connector_sync_job_id>/_cancel`

[[cancel-connector-sync-job-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To sync data using self-managed connectors, you need to deploy the <<es-connectors-deploy-connector-service,Elastic connector service>>. on your own infrastructure. This service runs automatically on Elastic Cloud for Elastic managed connectors.
* The `connector_sync_job_id` parameter should reference an existing connector sync job.

[[cancel-connector-sync-job-api-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

Cancels a connector sync job, which sets the `status` to `cancelling` and updates `cancellation_requested_at` to the current time.
The connector service is then responsible for setting the `status` of connector sync jobs to `cancelled`.

[[cancel-connector-sync-job-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`connector_sync_job_id`::
(Required, string)

[[cancel-connector-sync-job-api-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`200`::
Connector sync job cancellation was successfully requested.

`404`::
No connector sync job matching `connector_sync_job_id` could be found.

[[cancel-connector-sync-job-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example cancels the connector sync job with ID `my-connector-sync-job-id`:

[source,console]
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PUT _connector/_sync_job/my-connector-sync-job-id/_cancel
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// TEST[skip:there's no way to clean up after creating a connector sync job, as we don't know the id ahead of time. Therefore, skip this test.]