# Some way to temporarily pause pipelines

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-way-to-temporarily-pause-pipelines/231090>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-way-to-temporarily-pause-pipelines/231090 "2020-05-05T07:20:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-way-to-temporarily-pause-pipelines/231090/1 "2020-05-05T07:20:34Z")

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Hello,

When debugging pipelines of during unexpected or expected event spikes, it can be useful to be able to temporarily pause ingestion for 1 centralized pipeline management pipeline. During this pauze, we can make changes to input data, templates, mapping, outputs, ilm policies etc..

Is there already a way to pause only 1 pipeline? if not, does it seem like a good idea to add this functionality to centralized pipeline management? A simple pause button with a date range would be awesome imho. So we can:

- Pause indefinitely..
- Pause for 5 minutes..
- Pause for 15 minutes..
- Pause for 60 minutes..
- Pause for 24 hours..

Data ingested should be dropped while the pipeline is paused.

Grtz

Willem

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-way-to-temporarily-pause-pipelines/231090/2 "2020-06-02T07:20:40Z")

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