[role="xpack"]
[[ccr-pause-auto-follow-pattern]]
=== Pause auto-follow pattern API
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<titleabbrev>Pause auto-follow pattern</titleabbrev>
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Pauses an auto-follow pattern.

[[ccr-pause-auto-follow-pattern-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`POST /_ccr/auto_follow/<auto_follow_pattern_name>/pause`

[[ccr-pause-auto-follow-pattern-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have `manage_ccr` cluster
privileges on the cluster that contains the follower index. For more information,
see <<security-privileges>>.

[[ccr-pause-auto-follow-pattern-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

This API pauses an <<ccr-auto-follow,auto-follow pattern>>. When this API returns, the auto-follow pattern
is inactive and ignores any new index created on the remote cluster that matches any of
the auto-follow's patterns. Paused auto-follow patterns appear with the `active` field
set to `false` in the <<ccr-get-auto-follow-pattern, GET auto-follow patterns API>>.

You can resume auto-following with the <<ccr-resume-auto-follow-pattern,resume auto-follow pattern API>>.
Once resumed, the auto-follow pattern is active again and automatically configure
follower indices for newly created indices on the remote cluster that match its patterns.
Remote indices created while the
pattern was paused will also be followed, unless they have been deleted or closed in the
meantime.

[[ccr-pause-auto-follow-pattern-path-parms]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<auto_follow_pattern_name>`::
  (Required, string) Name of the auto-follow pattern to pause.


[[ccr-pause-auto-follow-pattern-examples]]
==== {api-examples-title}

This example pauses an auto-follow pattern named `my_auto_follow_pattern`:
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[source,console]
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PUT /_ccr/auto_follow/my_auto_follow_pattern
{
  "remote_cluster" : "remote_cluster",
  "leader_index_patterns" :
  [
    "leader_index"
  ],
  "follow_index_pattern" : "{{leader_index}}-follower"
}
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// TEST[setup:remote_cluster]
// TESTSETUP

[source,console]
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DELETE /_ccr/auto_follow/my_auto_follow_pattern
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// TEST
// TEARDOWN

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[source,console]
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POST /_ccr/auto_follow/my_auto_follow_pattern/pause
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// TEST

The API returns the following result:

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