# Stopping a River **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 30, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-a-river/4743 "2011-06-30T16:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Adam\_Estrada](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adam_estrada/32/2704_2.png) [@Adam\_Estrada](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adam_Estrada)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-a-river/4743/1 "2011-06-30T16:59:23Z")
Is there any way to do this without deleting the contents? I am working on the twitter river and would like to start and stop it as needed. Thanks, Adam ---
**Author:** ![dpilato](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dpilato/32/2449_2.png) [@dpilato](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dpilato)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-a-river/4743/2 "2011-06-30T17:05:35Z")
Is there any way to do this without deleting the contents? I am working on the twitter river and would like to start and stop it as needed. Not at this time. But there is a feature request on it : https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/951 Take care ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-a-river/4743/3 "2011-06-30T17:29:10Z")
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:05 -0700, dpilato wrote: > Adam Estrada wrote: > > > Is there any way to do this without deleting the contents? I am > > working on the twitter river and would like to start and stop it as > > needed. > > Not at this time. But there is a feature request on it : > [[Feature Request] Suspend a river · Issue #951 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/951) The couch river is not quite the same as the twitter river. The twitter river just reads the new tweets, it doesn't try to download all of the old tweets. So yes, you can stop the river without deleting the tweets that have already been indexed. Just delete the river, and not the index where the data is stored. clint ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Estrada](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adam_estrada/32/2704_2.png) [@Adam\_Estrada](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adam_Estrada)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-a-river/4743/4 "2011-06-30T17:39:52Z")
That did it! Thanks... Adam On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Clinton Gormley [clinton@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clinton@iannounce.co.uk)wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:05 -0700, dpilato wrote: > > > Adam Estrada wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to do this without deleting the contents? I am > > > working on the twitter river and would like to start and stop it as > > > needed. > > > > Not at this time. But there is a feature request on it : > > [[Feature Request] Suspend a river · Issue #951 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/951) > > The couch river is not quite the same as the twitter river. The twitter > river just reads the new tweets, it doesn't try to download all of the > old tweets. > > So yes, you can stop the river without deleting the tweets that have > already been indexed. Just delete the river, and not the index where > the data is stored. > > clint ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-a-river/4743/5 "2017-07-06T04:02:09Z")