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Stopping and starting a Valkey™ cluster

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Updated at February 3, 2026

You can stop and restart a Valkey™ cluster as needed. While your cluster is idle, you only pay for the size of your storage and backups as per the pricing policy.

Stopping a cluster

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

  1. In the management console, go to the folder containing the cluster you need to stop.
  2. Navigate to the Yandex Managed Service for Valkey™ service.
  3. In the cluster row, click and select Stop.
  4. 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.

To stop a cluster, run this command:

yc managed-redis cluster stop <cluster_name_or_ID>

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

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and place it in an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"

  2. Call the Cluster.Stop method, for instance, 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-redis/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>:stop'

    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 place it in 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, for instance, via the following gRPCurl request:

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

    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.

Starting a cluster

You can restart a cluster if its status is STOPPED.

  1. In the management console, go to the folder containing the cluster you need to start.
  2. Navigate to the Yandex Managed Service for Valkey™ service.
  3. In the cluster row, click and select Start.
  4. In the dialog box 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.

To start a cluster, run this command:

yc managed-redis cluster start <cluster_name_or_ID>

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

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and place it in an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"

  2. Call the Cluster.Start method, for instance, 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-redis/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 place it in 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, for instance, via the following gRPCurl request:

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