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name: watsonxdata-pause-resume-milvus
title: Pause and resume Milvus service
description: You can pause and resume a Milvus service from the **Infrastructure manager**.
last-updated: 2025-04-01
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# Pause and resume Milvus service
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You can pause and resume a Milvus service from the **Infrastructure manager**.
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- To pause a Milvus service:
   1. From the navigation menu, select **Infrastructure manager**.
   1. From the topology view, hover over the Milvus service tile that you want to pause. A pause icon appears.
   1. Click the pause icon. \
      Alternatively, from the list view, go to the overflow menu of the Milvus service and select **Pause**. \
   A confirmation box appears with the message: `Any in-flight queries running on this service will be terminated`.
   1. Click **Pause** to confirm.
- To resume a Milvus service:
   1. From the navigation menu, select **Infrastructure manager**.
   1. From the topology view, hover over the Milvus service tile that you want to resume. A resume icon appears.
   1. Click the resume icon. \
      Alternatively, from the list view, go to the overflow menu of the Milvus service and select **Resume**.

Milvus compute is not billed during the pause time.
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Bucket credential updates for a Milvus engine's home bucket require a manual engine pause and resume to take effect.
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## Related API
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For information on related API, see
* [Pause Milvus service](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/watsonxdata#create-milvus-service-pause)
* [Resume Milvus service](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/watsonxdata#create-milvus-service-resume)