[role="xpack"]
[[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}

Requires the `manage_ml` cluster privilege. This privilege is included in the 
`machine_learning_admin` built-in role.

[[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.

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

`<feed_id>`::
(Required, string)
Identifier for the datafeed. 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
identifier.

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

`allow_no_match`::
(Optional, Boolean)
include::{es-ref-dir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=allow-no-match-datafeeds]

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

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

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

You can also specify the query parameters (such as `allow_no_match` and
`force`) in the request body.

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

`404` (Missing resources)::
  If `allow_no_match` 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}

[source,console]
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POST _ml/datafeeds/datafeed-low_request_rate/_stop
{
  "timeout": "30s"
}
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// TEST[skip:Kibana sample data]

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

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