# Turn on and off elastic nodes in non business hours

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-on-and-off-elastic-nodes-in-non-business-hours/264703>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-on-and-off-elastic-nodes-in-non-business-hours/264703 "2021-02-18T12:58:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Todor\_Popov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/todor_popov/32/84117_2.png) [@Todor\_Popov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Todor_Popov)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-on-and-off-elastic-nodes-in-non-business-hours/264703/1 "2021-02-18T12:58:48Z")

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Hi,

is it possible to have the elastic cloud stopped for non business hours? Completely to avoid charges?

I guess alternative to that may be to resize it to smaller node size when there is no traffic?

Thanx.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-on-and-off-elastic-nodes-in-non-business-hours/264703/2 "2021-02-18T21:35:24Z")

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You can resize, but stopping is the same as destroying for the service, so you'd need to delete the cluster.

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**Author:** ![Todor\_Popov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/todor_popov/32/84117_2.png) [@Todor\_Popov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Todor_Popov)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-on-and-off-elastic-nodes-in-non-business-hours/264703/3 "2021-02-19T14:40:11Z")

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Тhanks for the response.

On the note of resizing. Is there an automated option for downsizing for certain hours and back to original for the rest of the time?

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-on-and-off-elastic-nodes-in-non-business-hours/264703/4 "2021-02-19T15:27:17Z")

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Hi @Todor_Popov

Not Today, we are just getting started with auto-scaling ... not automated...

That does not mean you can not resize you cluster everyday using and external scheduler and the API.

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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:** [March 5, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/turn-on-and-off-elastic-nodes-in-non-business-hours/264703/5 "2021-03-05T15:27:55Z")

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