# Shutdown Elastic through API **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 15, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shutdown-elastic-through-api/378194 "2025-05-15T17:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shutdown-elastic-through-api/378194/1 "2025-05-15T17:13:58Z")
Hi Team, We have Elastic cluster running(self-managed) . We wanted to shutdown or restart the service without going to server. I followed this documentation [node-lifecycle](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.18/node-lifecycle-api.html) but it didn't work for me. ---
**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shutdown-elastic-through-api/378194/2 "2025-05-15T17:29:40Z")
> [@Aniket\_Pant](#): > > We wanted to shutdown or restart the service without going to server. This is not supported natively, you would need to build something to automate that for you. > [@Aniket\_Pant](#): > > I followed this documentation [node-lifecycle](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.18/node-lifecycle-api.html) but it didn't work for me. As mentioned in the documentation: > This feature is designed for indirect use by Elasticsearch Service, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. **Direct use is not supported.** So, I would assume that calling this API directly is not supported. Also, it would not do what you want: > **This API does NOT terminate the Elasticsearch process.** Monitor the node shutdown status to determine when it is safe to stop Elasticsearch.