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Stopping and starting a MySQL® cluster

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Updated at May 5, 2026

If necessary, you can stop and restart your MySQL® cluster. While your cluster is idle, you only pay for the size of your storage and backups as per the pricing policy.

Alert

If a cluster uses local SSD storage (local-ssd), its computing resources are not released when it's stopped. This means that you are charged in full even for a stopped cluster.

Stopping a cluster

You can stop the cluster if you're not going to use the DBMS you launched for a while.

Note

Stopping a cluster is not allowed if it has no backups. In order to stop it, you must create its backup first.

  1. Go to Managed Service for MySQL.
  2. Locate the cluster you need in the list, click , and select Stop.
  3. Confirm that you want to stop the cluster by clicking Stop.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

  1. See the description of the CLI command for stopping a cluster:

    yc managed-mysql cluster stop --help

  2. To get the cluster ID and name, request the list of clusters in the folder:

    yc managed-mysql cluster list

  3. To stop the cluster, run this command:

    yc managed-mysql cluster stop <cluster_name_or_ID>

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"

  2. Call the Cluster.stop method, e.g., via the following cURL request:

    curl \
    --request POST \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-mysql/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>:stop'

    You can get the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  3. Check the server response to make sure your request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"

  2. Clone the cloudapi repository:

    cd ~/ && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi

    Below, we assume that the repository contents reside in the ~/cloudapi/ directory.

  3. Call the ClusterService/Stop method, e.g., via the following gRPCurl request:

    grpcurl \
    -format json \
    -import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
    -import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
    -proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/mdb/mysql/v1/cluster_service.proto \
    -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
    -d '{
          "cluster_id": "<cluster_ID>"
        }' \
    mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 \
    yandex.cloud.mdb.mysql.v1.ClusterService.Stop

    You can get the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  4. Check the server response to make sure your request was successful.

Starting a cluster

You can restart a cluster if its status is STOPPED.

  1. Navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.
  2. In the list, locate the stopped cluster you want to restart, click , and select Start.
  3. In the dialog box that opens, click Start to confirm the cluster launch.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

  1. See the description of the CLI command for starting a cluster:

    yc managed-mysql cluster start --help

  2. To get the cluster ID and name, request the list of clusters in the folder:

    yc managed-mysql cluster list

  3. To start the cluster, run this command:

    yc managed-mysql cluster start <cluster_name_or_ID>

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"

  2. Call the Cluster.start method, e.g., via the following cURL request:

    curl \
    --request POST \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-mysql/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>:start'

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  3. Check the server response to make sure your request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"

  2. Clone the cloudapi repository:

    cd ~/ && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi

    Below, we assume that the repository contents reside in the ~/cloudapi/ directory.

  3. Call the ClusterService/Start method, e.g., via the following gRPCurl request:

    grpcurl \
    -format json \
    -import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
    -import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
    -proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/mdb/mysql/v1/cluster_service.proto \
    -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
    -d '{
          "cluster_id": "<cluster_ID>"
        }' \
    mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 \
    yandex.cloud.mdb.mysql.v1.ClusterService.Start

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  4. Check the server response to make sure your request was successful.

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