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  • Stopping a cluster
  • Starting a cluster
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  2. Clusters
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Stopping and starting an OpenSearch cluster

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Updated at March 6, 2025
  • Stopping a cluster
  • Starting a cluster

You can stop and restart an OpenSearch cluster as needed. When stopped, a cluster retains all its data. The data will be available again as soon as you restart the cluster.

You are not charged for the time when your cluster is stopped; however, you still have to pay for the storage size 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

Management console
REST API
gRPC API
  1. In the management console, go to the folder page and select Managed Service for OpenSearch.
  2. Find the cluster in the list, click the icon, and select Stop.
  3. In the dialog box that opens, confirm that you want to stop the cluster and click Stop.
  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Use the Cluster.Stop method and make a request, e.g., via cURL:

    curl \
        --request GET \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-opensearch/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>:stop'
    

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

  3. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the 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. Use the ClusterService.Stop call and make a request, e.g., via gRPCurl:

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

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

  4. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

Starting a clusterStarting a cluster

You can restart Stopped clusters.

Management console
REST API
gRPC API
  1. In the management console, go to the folder page and select Managed Service for OpenSearch.
  2. Find the stopped cluster in the list, click the icon, and select Start.
  3. In the dialog box that opens, confirm that you want to start the cluster and click Start.
  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Use the Cluster.Start method and make a request, e.g., via cURL:

    curl \
        --request GET \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-opensearch/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>:start'
    

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

  3. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the 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. Use the ClusterService.Start call and run a request, e.g., via gRPCurl:

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

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

  4. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

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