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    Managing ClickHouse Cloud Service with API and cURL

    Learn how to start, stop, and resume a ClickHouse Cloud service using API endpoints and cURL commands.

    How to start, stop and resume a Cloud service using the ClickHouse API and cURL​

    Question​

    How can a ClickHouse Cloud service be started, stopped and resumed using API endpoints?

    Answer​

    1. To wake up/resume a Cloud service from an idle state, you can ping the instance:
    1. To stop a Cloud service, use the /state endpoint along with the stop command. The syntax looks like:

    For example, the following command stops the 2e2124ca-c5ac-459d-a6f2-abc123549d2a service:

    The output looks like:

    1. To start the service again, use the start command:
    Note

    Here are the various states that a service can be in:

    Note

    A Cloud service that is "idle" is considered started, so a start command will not resume/wake it up. Use the ping endpoint shown in Step 1 to wake up a service.

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