Pause and Resume

Pausing a project stops its running Spice runtime without deleting anything. Settings, configuration, and data are preserved, and the project can be resumed at any time.

Pause a project that is not currently needed — a demo between sessions, or a project waiting on upstream work — rather than deleting and rebuilding it.

Pausing is reversible. To remove a project permanently instead, see Delete.

Pause a project

1. Navigate to the project you want to pause.

2. Click Settings in the project navigation sidebar.

3. Scroll down to the Danger Zone section.

4. Click the Pause button on Pause project.

5. In the Pause dialog, click Pause to confirm.

The running instance is stopped once the pause is confirmed.

Pausing and resuming a project requires the member role or above in the owning organization. Members with the viewer role cannot pause or resume a project.

While a project is paused

The project remains listed in the portal and its settings stay editable, so configuration can be changed before it is resumed.

The Playground and Observability pages have no runtime to serve them while the project is paused. Both show a card reporting that the project is paused, with a Resume button.

A paused project serves no queries. Requests made against its API key while it is paused do not reach a runtime.

Resume a project

Resume a project from either place:

• On the project Settings page, in the Danger Zone section, click Resume on Resume project.

• On the Playground or Observability page, click Resume on the paused-project card.

The runtime is redeployed from the project's existing configuration. The portal reports progress and waits for the runtime to report ready before returning to the page.

Inactivity auto-pause

Projects on the Community plan are paused automatically after a period of inactivity. Paid plans are not auto-paused. See Community Plan for the inactivity window and what counts as activity.

A project paused for inactivity is resumed the same way as one paused manually.