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In this article:

  • Stopping a cluster
  • Starting a cluster
  1. Step-by-step guides
  2. Clusters
  3. Stopping and starting a cluster

Stopping and starting a MySQL® cluster

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at December 10, 2025
  • Stopping a cluster
  • Starting a cluster

You can stop and restart a MySQL® cluster as needed. While your cluster is idle, you only pay for the size of your storage and backups based on 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 clusterStopping a cluster

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

Management console
CLI
REST API
gRPC API
  1. Navigate to the folder dashboard and select Managed Service for MySQL.
  2. Find your cluster in the list, click , and select Stop.
  3. Click Stop to confirm stopping the cluster.

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

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

  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 set it as 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 set it as 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 the repository contents are stored 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 clusterStarting a cluster

You can restart STOPPED clusters.

Management console
CLI
REST API
gRPC API
  1. Navigate to the folder dashboard and select Managed Service for MySQL.
  2. Find the stopped cluster in the list, click , and select Start.
  3. In the dialog that opens, click Start to confirm starting the cluster.

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

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

  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 set it as 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 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 set it as 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 the repository contents are stored 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 get 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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